Intro to Reclaimed Woodworking: Make Your Own Custom Timber Shelf!
Schedule
Sat Mar 07 2026 at 10:50 am to 04:00 pm
UTC+00:00Location
Garden of Earthly Delights | London, EN
Perfect for beginners! Join us to learn about reducing waste and develop your woodworking skills! Get hands-on with tools & build something!
About this Event
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:
- Sourcing, assessing and processing waste timber to kickstart your projects
- Woodworking fundamentals: Measuring, marking and cutting with hand tools
- Power Drills 101! What all the bits do, and how to use them safely and confidently
- How to design and put together a waste-free woodworking project!
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 reclaimed timber shelves - which you'll get to customise and take home on the day!
At WoRD, we go beyond just woodworking...
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:
If our ticket price is outside your means, please get in touch! We reserve sliding-scale, subsidised and free places for people who may face a financial barrier 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!
Where is it happening?
Garden of Earthly Delights, 161 Graham Road, London, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
GBP 85.00 to GBP 110.00
