Intro to Reclaimed Woodworking: Build a Garden Planter!

Want to learn how to use power tools, find materials, build and repair things?

Come along to the Woodshop of Recycled Delights' 'Intro to Reclaimed Woodworking' Workshop where you will learn how to use hand and power tools to build with reclaimed wood! Perfect for total beginners!

In this workshop, you'll learn:

• The environmental impact of timber waste, and how you can help!
• How to work safely with wood
• Getting started with timber tools: know what to use and how!
• Drill Skills - learn how to confidently use these power tools
• Plenty of practical hands-on time to practice
• Get to make 3 planters for community gardens!

Through plenty of practical hands-on time to practice, you'll learn about the environmental impact of timber waste, and how you can help our planet while constructing useful and joyful projects!

We'll be making garden planters, which will be distributed to community organisations across London to enable more growing projects!

What Your Workshop Ticket Funds:

The Woodshop of Recycled Delights is a Community Interest Company, meaning that your ticket not only covers your experience at the workshop; it funds the ongoing work WoRD does for our community and environment.
Since 2022, we've rescued over 20,000 kgs of timber from landfill, saving around 35 tonnes of sequestered CO2 from entering our atmosphere! We've used this timber to create more than 150 new growing structures for London community green spaces, and delivered over 6000 hours of accessible learning through workshops and volunteer days to almost 2000 people.

Pay-It-Forward Tickets:
We're committed to making sure that joyful and sustainable woodworking is accessible to everyone. We work with funders to offer subsidised and free workshops to community organisations that share our mission of empowering people to use what they have to build what they need - especially people who are traditionally less-represented in woodworking spaces.

We've been doing the same with our woodworking workshops for years - finding places for people to take part, no matter what they can afford. If you have the means, please help us to continue to offer these spaces by booking a Pay-It-Forward workshop ticket for your session. This covers your attendance and helps to fund someone else's place on a WoRD workshop.

Woodworking For Everyone:

We offer a limited number of subsidised workshop tickets to these sessions. To ensure these places go fairly to people who need them, please only book a subsidised place if it aligns with your means.

If these ticket prices remain outside your means, please get in touch! We reserve free places for people who may face financial barriers to learning. If this is you, please email [email protected] to chat with us about a place at one of our workshops.

Working with reclaimed timber not only reduces waste, but also creates great opportunities for artistic creation in garden and furniture design. You will be amazed at what’s possible - seating and social spaces, water-efficient planters, pergolas, and limitless other options!

We're passionate about supporting people to make whatever they want out of reclaimed material, and the possibilities are truly endless.

We take a co-learning approach, with experienced facilitators leading a space that welcomes people working together to share different approaches to making or fixing things using reclaimed materials.

See more examples of what we do on our instagram page

Suitable for ages 16+.

PPE provided. Enclosed footwear must be worn.

The GED is an outdoor space, so bring weather-appropriate clothing!

There will be a short lunch break so please bring some lunch with you.

Please arrive on-time to begin!

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