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Apr 2021

Last Updated: 23/04/2021

Community

WATCH: Men's Shed mental health group opens in Pateley Bridge

by Newsroom

| 26 Apr, 2021

The Nidderdale and Pateley Bridge Men's Shed will provide local people a space to build DIY projects and friendships. The group is open to both men and women.

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The Nidderdale and Pateley Bridge Men's Shed has opened to provide friendship and support to the local community.

They are part of a wider organisation of ‘sheds’ which began in Australia. Their goal is to create a space for people to come together to create and build while making friends and overcoming loneliness.

Despite their name, organiser Alan Cottrill assured the Stray Ferret that the group is also open to women who want to clear their mind through DIY.

“We’re making and repairing things - but also making friendships.”

“There’s been lots of research over the last couple of years which show that this is a good way to get men to talk. Women talk face to face but men talk shoulder to shoulder.”

The Men’s Shed have the premises behind St Cuthbert’s for three years and aim to start working with other charities next year.

Men painting building