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Upcoming Open Sessions at Ed’s Workshop
Ed’s Workshop is a community of makers in Sheffield City Centre. We have embedded support enabling makers with additional needs to make and sell craft items. We’re holding two open sessions for anyone interested in our work, either professional or personal: – Friday 18th October 2pm – 6pm – Saturday 19th October 10am – 1pm…
Stars in the making!
Since we joined Ed’s Workshop in May, we’ve been having loads of fun experimenting with prototypes for producing high-end, re-usable items. Everyone is fizzing with ideas which we positively bounce around each other, all this even led to trying out excitingly new methods with laser technology and textiles. There’s a great supportive atmosphere and a…
Prototypes and community
There’s been a particularly industrious feel to the workshop over the last week with our makers taking various products through the prototyping stage. Working in a community means that when design elements don’t work the disappointment is shared and the encouragement from others ensures a focus on the tweaks and changes required to move forward.…
Our new makers can surf holding a coffee
14 July 2023: If you’ve been following our news you’ll know that we got the keys to our new premises on Carver Street in April, we then spent a few weeks cleaning, painting, building benches and moving our gear in, and makers began to join us at the end of May. We’re thoroughly enjoying welcoming…
Making started today
4 May 2023: Tables, chairs, workbenches, shelving – we’re almost there on furnishing our space and have already started making. As well as our main room, we’re fortunate to have a wood workshop, a storeroom and an office. The woodworking room has been put to good use making the workbenches.
New premises for Ed’s Workshop
14 April 2023: We’re excited to announce that Ed’s Workshop has moved into a property on Carver Street Sheffield. Our light and airy new space is in a former cutlery works built in 1900, and described at the time as “a thoroughly up to-date manufactory replete with all modern appliances and conveniences”, which “employed about…