Dear All,
This website is now up and running. Please forgive any display glitches…we are still finalising how the pages will work and sorting out the formatting.
Thank you to those who have sent in information and posters. If they are one-off events, I am then aiming to put them onto the events calendar.
I am also entering key words from the posters into the website search facility.
Thank you very much Simon from the Bovey Shed who has shared the following information.
The Bovey Community Workshop (The Bovey Shed) aims to establish a suitably equipped and staffed workshop where members of the community can socialise, share and develop skills, cooperate on creative projects and reduce the number of items going to land-fill.
The activities will include: Joinery, woodturning, metalwork, electrical repairs, repairing and selling tools, toys and bikes, computer projects including 3d printing and probably more. We have an active working relationship with the local, award winning Repair Cafe. We will be able to take on the work that cannot be done in the few hours they are open.
Our workshop will be behind the Dolphin Hotel, Bovey Tracey. We have been allotted 4 car parking spaces, so if you can walk or cycle to the venue it would be very much appreciated. We open on1st November 2024. Before that we have a fair amount of ‘self-help’ work that requires completing, then we can start creating the workshop proper.
Things like:-
Replace the office flooring, decorate the office walls & ceiling, remove old BT wiring installations.
Replace the workshop ceiling panels,
With the help of a qualified electrician, we need to repair some sockets, review the wiring condition throughout and install enough new sockets for the equipment we will have.
We will revamp the kitchen area and toilet and repaint the walls. To start with! Please Help to raise some funds and use the link below to select us as your local cause.
https://membership.coop.co.uk/causes/93303
Many of us in Bovey will be aware that opportunities like this have been lacking and needed for years in the town. Huge thanks to Simon and his team for working so hard to get this up and running. You are stars!
Another group of Bovey heroes are the guys that run the Youth Café. Thank you so much for all you do. Please see the great leaflet which they have produced explaining what they are able to offer to the young people of the town. This youth club seems to offer so much more than what was available when I was a teenager. If only I was a little younger….. 😊
If you are offering anything to support people in and around Bovey, please let us know. If it is making life richer for those living here, then we are happy to get the news out there, no matter how small or modest.
Thank you!
ps. if you have signed up to receive the newsletter, I am just waiting for training as to how to use 'mailchimp'.