Asda sheds cash to help a good cause
Abigail Hurrell, sheds project manager at the Royal Voluntary Service, with Lewis Gardner, Glen Douglas, Alan Tennant of Kinross Men’s Shed A community group in Kinross is celebrating after receiving funding for its community shed space from the Asda Foundation.
Kinross and District Men’s Shed has been awarded £1000 to help develop their work, which offers men the chance come together to take part in practical skills and activities like IT skills, photography and woodworking.
Sheds are community spaces designed and run by their members and provide opportunities for people to share tools, resources and skills in order to create, learn and develop social networks.
Roy Gilmour from the Kinross and District Men’s Shed, said:“The grant you donated will make a considerable difference to helping older people learn the benefits of the online world we now take for granted.
“It’s surprising just how many older people have been bypassed by technology.
“Banks are closing (two in our small town) so a bus journey of 40 minutes and queueing to visit a bank is the norm now. We will now be able to show them internet banking, how to shop online at Asda and how easy it is, thanks to your generosity.”
Royal Voluntary Service, with funding from the Asda Foundation, established the Sheds Grant Fund in 2015 to provide small scale funding to sheds.