Shed Open Doors Day
Head to the Shed’ this International Men’s Day!
On the 19th November each year, we mark International Men’s Day. The Scottish Men’s Sheds Association (SMSA) is facilitating Open Doors Day for a second year in 2025 with participating Scottish Men’s Sheds to afford the opportunity to reach an even wider audience to spread the word about our Scottish Sheds.
Participating Scottish Men’s Sheds will all open on International Men’s Day (IMD) – a global awareness day which takes place on the 19th November each year to celebrate and recognise the positive value that men bring to the world, their families and communities. And, what better way to mark this occasion than encourage our Scottish communities to come along to find out more about their local Men’s Shed and the potential to really improve the quality of life of men.
Save the date: Wed 19 Nov 2025—and every year after that!
How to take part: Shed members of the SMSA can register using the online form below. Join in, start planning out your day, and make the most of this opportunity to promote your Shed to your local community.
Opening the doors, opening the conversation
An annual tradition
in the making?
With growing success, Open Doors Day is now set to become a regular feature in Scottish Shed calendars, bringing in new audiences and spreading the word far and wide.
Newton Stewart Men’s Shed held a very successful Open Doors Day event with four of their visitors signing up and paying their dues and four others taking membership forms away and expressing that they were very likely to join in the near future!
Graham Curtis from Stonehouse Men’s Shed also shared: “Three of the South Lanarkshire Sheds participated in Open Doors Day. Our open day went really well, we had 25-30 local people visiting us. A lot of this was due to promoting it at a recent presentation we gave to the Women’s Guild the previous week and they brought along their husbands, partners and home baking!”
SMSA CEO Jason Schroeder said: “With the Shed doors swung wide open to mark International Men’s Day, it provides the opportunity to raise the profile of Sheds and the age 18+ model, show people in your local community around Shed premises, tell them all about what happens there, meet and talk to other members, see activities in action, highlight the potential health and wellbeing benefits and answer any questions they may have.
“Obviously the Shed’s have their own opening times and people can go along then to check out the Shed but with local and national promotion of this event, we aim to get the word out to as many people as possible including local GP’s, social prescribers, schools, businesses, politicians, charities, police etc along for group tours.
“This event has huge potential year-on-year to inform and inspire new, wide and varied audiences along to Scottish Men’s Sheds—so please get the 19 Nov 2025 (and every year after that) in your diaries!”
PROMOTIONAL RESOURCES
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POSTERS: CLICK ON THE IMAGES BELOW TO DOWNLOAD
There are a few options of posters to display in your Shed and community (locals shops, pharmacies, GP surgeries etc) – one less ink heavy – and also to share on your website and social media channels.
Shed Open Doors Day
Please supply details from the participating Scottish Men's Shed below for this year's Shed Doors Open Day on the 19th November