Recent past events

Recent past events

Over the last few months, we have had a presence at:

Bitterne library (craft fayre); Sholing Valleys Spring Fayre;

Trifest 2026 (https://trifest.uk/); 

Pear Tree Church summer fete in Southampton (Summer Fete on Pear Tree Green);

sales table at the Eco event at the United Reformed Church, Bitterne, in October 2026 (this event was very successful, with over £150 worth of stock being sold);

sales table at Highpoint, also in October 2026. Not as successful - in terms of sales - as the United Reformed Church, but these events are not just about sales; they also demonstrate what we do at the shed club, and would therefore be worthwhile, even if nothing were sold. 

We were visited in October 2026 by Fiesta 95 FM Community Radio Station, whose broadcasts are aimed mostly at the local Spanish community. Their website is at https://fiestafm.co.uk/ 

Every year (in September) we visit Screwfix Live, and this year we also visited the D & M tool show at Kempton Park race course (in October). The D & M show is mostly hand tools.

Here are some images from our recent stall at Trifest 2026:

An event that we attend every year is Screwfix Live,  where members can pick up bargains for themselves and for the club. Here are some of our members in 2026, with Frank Bruno, who was a celebrity guest this year.

There is also a tool show at Kempton Park race track in October, which we attended in 2026. It is a smaller event than Screwfix Live, and mostly features hand tools, rather than machinery. 

Erection of Spitfire Makers plaque at Deepdene

2025 saw us erecting a Spitfire Makers plaque at Deepdene. The photos are fairly self-explanatory, but after the Supermarine factory in Woolston was bombed by the Luftwaffe in 1940, it was decided to disperse production of Spitfires to other sites in Southampton and elsewhere. The plaques are intended to commemorate the dispersed production, in this case at Deepdene, as the plaque states. Here are some pictures of the event.

Health and Wellbeing day (Chamberlayne)

Keith and Corne (chairman and vice-chairman) are here pictured at Chamberlayne (Weston, 2024), where we had a stall to display our wares. 

We returned to this event in 2025.