Future Shed Frome
Future Shed offers practical support to get green and healthy initiatives and enterprises off the ground through building networks, supporting projects, connecting people and coaching.
Make new connections, share ideas and get support to bring them to life so that we’re all better equipped for a greener, healthier future. Future Shed is part of Edventure, an organisation supporting community entrepreneurship in Frome.
What happens at Future Shed?
We host meet ups with groups and networks, usually on a Friday morning, at Edventure’s Hub in Frome.
We offer free coaching and support to individuals and organisations, including training workshops, and connect people together.
We support local networks of action and groups working in food, textiles, play and wellbeing. We enable community-led action connecting climate and health through working together and sharing ideas.
Go to our Eventbrite to see our current activities, and to book in.
Many of the groups and organisations we partner with run their own activities. Please follow the links to connect with the network or project that interests you, or contact Future Shed for an introduction.
Frome Food Network – building awareness of food sustainability and the local food economy. Their latest project ‘Canteen’ brings a pop-up to the town, offering delicious, locally sourced food, affordable to all, this October and November.
Back to Nature – bringing people closer to their natural surroundings, so our communities, the environment and the people can flourish. Outdoor sessions for women continue, including a nature retreat.
Super Roots – creating more opportunities for children, families & young people to use tools, swing high, experience campfires, fuel imaginative play & learn in nature.
Everyone Needs Pockets – a network of people and enterprises focusing on clothing and textile reuse (rescue) and sustainability (repurposing, recycling). Sustainable Fashion Week returns to Frome from 20-29 September with talks, workshops, clothes swaps and repair events.
Sewing The Seeds – a community fibre project with a network of flax growers. Workshops continue about flax processing, weaving and embroidery.
Frome Seed Library – a seed library in Frome’s Library, alongside learning activities for children and outreach to support and develop community growing spaces.
Frome Families for the Future – a group of caring and concerned individuals committed to securing a brighter future for our children, who have created the River Vision Project.
Health & Wellbeing Network – community wellbeing through practical activities and connection.
Future Shed has recently run an Art Materials Give & Take project this summer to begin building a network around the arts focusing on climate and wellbeing.
Go to our Linktree for quick links to groups and events
Support on offer
Training and coaching support is on offer through Future Shed. We can also signpost you to other resources. This is a space to meet up, build relationships and get involved. If you have an idea for a new initiative or project, get in touch.
- free 1:1 start up coaching from a qualified coach
- free 1:1 support from a professional fundraiser
- making connections, project development and starting initiatives
It doesn’t matter what stage of a project you’re at, whether you’re already in the thick of it, just toying with an idea or simply passionate about making a difference but not sure how. Get in touch.
Residencies
As part of Green & Healthy Frome, Future Shed works in partnership with networks and groups to take community-led action. We host groups or projects ‘in residence’ each year to create public activities and engagement as well as receiving support to develop their organisation.
Much of our work is rooted in the topics that were put forward by the community at the Green & Healthy launch event in 2020, and the online Ideas Board.
Edventure’s co-working space
Edventure’s hub has desk spaces surrounded with beautiful plants, fast WiFi, fabulous ethical teas and coffee, with a workshop / maker-space and meeting rooms. Contact us if you’re interested.
Interested?
Email sue@edventurefrome.org and we can arrange a call.
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Future Shed Events
Future Shed Friday – Everyone Needs Pockets Textile Reuse Network
The Welsh Mill, Park Hill Dr, Frome BA11 2LE
Future Shed Training: How to run a small event or workshop, with Sue Palmer
The Welsh Mill, Park Hill Dr, Frome BA11 2LE
From Flax to Fibre – a workshop with Flaxland UK (Sewing the Seeds project)
The Silk Mill, Merchants Barton, Frome BA11 1PT
Future Shed Training: How to get your organisation fundraising ready
The Welsh Mill, Park Hill Dr, Frome BA11 2LE
How To Mend Your Clothes with Everyone Needs Pockets at Frome Boulder Rooms
Vallis Road, Unit 3 & 4, Frome, BA11 3EN
Future Shed Friday – Everyone Needs Pockets Textile Reuse Network
The Welsh Mill, Park Hill Dr, Frome BA11 2LE
Future Shed Training: What’s the big idea? with Holly Lawton
Frome Town Hall
Future Shed Friday – Everyone Needs Pockets Textile Reuse Network
The Welsh Mill, Park Hill Dr, Frome BA11 2LE
Future Shed Training: How to pitch your idea in public
The Welsh Mill, Park Hill Dr, Frome BA11 2LE
Meet the Future Shed Team
Sue Palmer
Future Shed Lead
Annabel Crooke
Green and Healthy Communications Lead
Attendances at Future Shed Fridays, Ideas Events and activities
Access our Toolkits
In Spring 2023, we produced updated versions of our toolkits to share learnings from our development phase. We have the following toolkits available as downloadable A4 PDFs:
* Future Shed – Edventure Frome
* Storytelling – Edventure Frome
* Choosing Wisely – Frome Medical Practical
* Green Community Connectors - Frome Medical Practice
* Healthy Homes – Frome Town Council
* Cycle Together – Frome Town Council
Art Materials Give and Take a Run-away Success
Our wonderful local artists have been working with Future Shed to co-ordinate an art materials give and take project. Reusing what we already have is really important for our planet - and donating makes us feel good! We know that creativity is linked to wellbeing...
Art Materials Give and Take
Have you got a stash of unused art stuff in the back of a cupboard? Perhaps materials given as a present, or some items you have never got around to using? Well here’s your chance to share them so others can use them to be creative! Future Shed Health (Green and...
A Day of Riverside Magic in Frome
On Sunday 9th June, Frome Families for the Future and the Friends of River Frome put on the most extraordinarily good River Festival, curated to celebrate, protect and connect our community to the River Frome, there was music, river dipping, nature storytelling, river...