Residencies
Future Shed Frome Residencies
Edventure’s Future Shed works in partnership with networks and groups in Frome to take community-led action on climate and health through our residency programme.
We host around 5 groups or projects ‘in residence’ each year (2023-2025). Each project receives a small fund, development coaching and support from the Future Shed team, to create public activities and events that engage the wider community, as well as developing their organisation.
The Future Shed 2024 Residencies
Super Roots – Green & Healthy Play Toolkit with events (Autumn / Winter) – a play toolkit to empower young people and communities to build positive futures and co-create playful, climate resilient opportunities through the DIY spirit of Adventure Play.
Frome Seed Library – Sprouts children’s activities at Frome Library, workshops and outreach to support new and existing community growing spaces, Seedy Socials connecting seeds to wellbeing.
Back to Nature – nature-based outdoor sessions for women, and those who significantly identify as such, building confidence and community through learning outdoor skills.
Frome Food Network – ‘Canteen’, a communal eating project serving delicious, affordable and locally sourced food at special pop-ups in October and November, inspired by Stroud’s Long Table.
Everyone Needs Pockets – a network of 150+ makers, designers, stitchers and secondhand clothing fans, running activities including Mend In Public Day, How to Mend Your Clothes repair sessions, and hosting the Frome hub of Sustainable Fashion Week from 20 – 29 September 2024.
Sewing the Seeds – a community fibre project, growing and processing flax for food and fibre have been given some funding to support their fibre/food workshops.
Frome Families for the Future – River Vision Project – connecting us with our river through activities, consultation, stakeholder engagement, song and a riverside festival, and designing a new access point to the River Frome in Rodden Meadow.
Future Shed Residencies in 2023
Four community-led groups were ‘in residence’ with Future Shed creating public activities and events, as well as receiving support to develop their organisation and their work.
Frome Food Network
Events included: THIS FOOD IS RUBBISH with artists Cherry Truluck and Annalee Levin; Pumpkin Day Harvest Swap and Food Festival with Frome Field 2 Fork and visits to gardens and growing spaces in Frome and beyond.
Network Coordinator: Hugh Thomas
Contact: hugh@fromefoodnetwork.co.uk
Find out more: www.fromefoodnetwork.co.uk/
Instagram: @fromefoodnetwork
Everyone Needs Pockets Textile Reuse Network
Hosted a Sustainable Fashion Week Hub over the weekend of 30 September to 1st October (the only market town in the UK to do so) with a Stitch It Don’t Ditch It public mend, film screenings and workshops. Other public activities have included a Flax Workshop, talks on the impact of fast fashion, Mend Your Own Clothes sessions and skill shares.
Network Coordinators: Jill Philips, Claire Orpin, Anna Fraenkel, Tamara Jones
Contact: everyoneneedspockets@gmail.com
Find out more: Everyone Needs Pockets
Instagram: @everyoneneedspockets
Frome Seed Library
Events included: Sprouts Under 5s monthly gardening club at Frome Library, creation of a new outdoor garden at Frome Library, learning sessions with primary schools, Frome College and growing groups, and Seedy Socials for participatory seed sorting.
Network Coordinator: Kerry Meech
Contact: fromeseedlibrary@gmail.com
Find out more: Frome Seed Library on Facebook
Instagram: @fromeseedlibrary
Frome Families for the Future
A group working to create a better future for our children. FFFF have focused their residency on the River Frome. Working with local stakeholders and the community, they have researched and led activities including river quality monitoring. Led by Gemma Annan, their proposal focuses on improving access to the river and highlighting contemporary climate and health issues, creating a River Vision Project.
Network Coordinators: Gemma Annan, Suzie Temple and Claire Mckenna
Contact: fromefamiliesforthefuture@gmail.com
Find out more: Frome Families for the Future
Instagram: @frome_families_for_the_future
(This residency was extended into 2024)
About Future Shed
Future Shed is part of Edventure, an organisation supporting community entrepreneurship in Frome.
Future Shed Frome offers practical support to get green and healthy initiatives and enterprises off the ground through building networks, connecting people and ideas, signposting and start-up coaching.
Share ideas, get support to bring them to life, make new connections and learn new skills so that we’re all better equipped for a greener, healthier future.
Are you part of a venture, organisation or group interested in a future residency?
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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 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
Future Shed Training: How to pitch your idea in public
Frome Town Hall
Meet the Future Shed Team
Annabel Crooke
Green and Healthy Communications Lead
Sue Palmer
Future Shed 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
Sustainable Fashion Week 2024 in Frome
Sustainable Fashion Week Ignites Passion for Clothing Repair in Frome. For the second consecutive year, continuing our mission to inspire a shift away from fast fashion. With record numbers in attendance, Everyone Needs Pockets hosted 17 dynamic events in and...
Sewing the Seeds of Sustainable Fashion: how a Somerset town is re-growing its textile heritage
Written by Owen King A project inviting people to grow a square metre of flax is exploring the relationships between ourselves, nature and clothing. Photo credited to: Valentina Culley-Foster: photo@vculleyfoster.com Mobile: +447510126858 Website:...
“Despite all our accomplishments, we owe our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact it rains.”
Paul Harvey (1978) U.S. radio broadcaster Don't miss the screening and subsequent Q&A of Six Inches of Soil on Thursday 3rd October from 7pm to 9.30pm. This inspiring documentary feature film tells the stories of three young English farmers, who are applying...