Author: Mike Belch

28th March 2024 Axe Valley Men’s Shed would like to thank the Thatchers Foundation, who have just given us a grant of £2,500 towards our work re-purposing the old Axbridge Railway Station as a base for our work. We will be using the money to make key changes to the infrastructure of the building to…

27th March 2024 This month we started art classes for our Men’s Shed members at the Old Axbridge Station. Their first efforts exploring sunlight in water using acrylic paints can be seen here – with a turtle swimming up through the seaweed towards the rays of sunlight shining through the water. It’ll be interesting to…

16th March 2024 This ITV news article shows how using social prescribing to refer new people to Men’s Sheds in Wales is helping to reduce demand on the NHS. The Health Coaches from the Axbridge, Cheddar and Wedmore GP practices know about the work that we do and refer people to us if they think…

3rd February 2024 This morning we attended a hand-over at the monthly Axbridge Farmers Market in the town square, where we were given a donation of £500 from Barbara Wells and Margaret Cowie of the 2023 Axbridge Progressive Supper. This is an annual event in the town, where 150 or more people wander through the…

10th January 2024 The fine weather and frost-free ground at the weekend meant that we were able to plant a native hedge of over 100 dog rose and crab apple whips at our Shortlands site.

28th November 2023 We would like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who attended the Kings Fitness & Leisure Back2Health Christmas charity quiz last night at The White Hart in Cheddar, and to all the local business who donated prizes for the raffle. Over £150 was raised for Axe Valley Men’s Shed. The…

29th November 2023 Hannah and Sarah from the Co-op visited us today at Axbridge Station with a donation of £1,192 from the Co-op Local Community Fund. The money is raised from a percentage of what people spend on Co-op branded products in our local store.

23rd November 2023 Day four at Shortlands and levelling for the greenhouse and fruit cage has really progressed. Our volunteers from Heidelberg Materials have also started to dig out the wildlife pond.

22nd November 2023 Day three at Shortlands and the focus is on levelling a huge amount of earth to form the base of our greenhouse and fruit cage. Our Heidelberg Materials volunteers also dug a shallow trench that we will use to plant a boundary hedge for the orchard.

21st November 2023 It’s day two in the Big Brother Household at the Shortlands men’s shed garden. Our Heidelberg Materials volunteers have finished laying down the water distribution pipe, with a branch off half way for the orchard, and have made a start clearing the ground for our greenhouse and fruit cage.