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A Freehold showcase. This organisation is fictional. The menu box on the left (the list at the bottom on a phone) tracks the numbered menu items as you scroll; each is something you can ask for on your own build. Every build is bespoke: this shows the range, not a template.

A community workshop in Two Rivers, Canterbury

Two Rivers Community Shed

Retired hands, a warm shed, and a kettle that never quite goes off. We build, we mend, and we yarn. The shed is the excuse. The company is the point.

A man with long grey hair planing a piece of timber held in a bench vice, at a long crowded workbench with clamps, mallets and hand tools hung on the wall behind him.
Real shed A real community workshop, mid-job. On a real build this is your shed, your bench, your people, with a caption naming your real place.
Come in on a Tuesday or Thursday. Kettle is on. 03 xxx xxxx hello@example.org.nz The shed by the domain, Two Rivers
A timber-clad community shed on a sunny day, with a blue sign reading The Shed above the door, a noticeboard by the window, and a planter box out the front.
Real shed You will know it by the sign. Walk straight in, no knock needed.

Finding us

Look for the sign

We are the timber shed by the domain. If the door is open, someone is in. And the kettle will be on, so you are welcome to a cuppa before anyone asks your name.

First visit? Just turn up. No membership form until you have decided we are worth your Tuesdays.

One line, one decision

This month at the shed

Turn up to any of these. No sign-up, no fee, no need to know a thing. Bring a project or bring nothing. A cuppa is always going.

  • Tuesday mornings, 9 to noon Open shed. Work on your own project, or lend a hand on someone else's.
  • Thursday mornings, 9 to noon Open shed and repairs. Bring the thing that stopped working and we will have a look.
  • First Saturday, 10am Toy-making morning for the kindy down the road. Younger hands welcome too.
  • Last Thursday, 2pm Tools and tea. A quiet cuppa, a yarn, and no pressure to make a thing.

The people who put the kettle on

The Tuesday crew

A busy repair morning: volunteers working together at long wooden tables, fixing a red vacuum cleaner and small appliances, with tools and cups of tea spread across the tables.
Real repair morning A Tuesday, mid-fix. On a real build these are your real people, photographed. These stand-in photos are free-licensed.
  • ColinConvenor, and chief of tea
  • MereWoodturning and the lathe
  • RangiRepairs, fixes almost anything
  • SueWelcome, and knows everyone
  • DaveMetalwork and welding
  • PatElectronics, and the old radios

On a real build, every one of these is a real person with their real photo and the job they love doing. We lift them all across, nobody left in a footnote.

Thanked like a monument

The people who keep us going

Thank you

We could not keep the lights on, the kettle full, or the doors open without these good folk. Ka nui te mihi.

  • Two Rivers Lions
  • The Tuesday Bakers
  • Ashcroft Hardware
  • Pinehaven Timber Yard
  • Two Rivers Menzshed Fund
  • The Corner Dairy
  • Braided River Grants
  • Everyone who dropped in a koha

Shown, not described

A hand-turned walnut bowl with deep swirling grain, sitting on a pale wooden table.
Turned walnut bowlOff the lathe on a Tuesday. The grain did the hard work.
A small carved and painted toy pig with striped markings, standing on a plain white surface.
Carved toy pigCarved by hand, painted with care. Off to the kindy box.
An old painted wooden toy house with a red roof, decorative painted flourishes, and small carved figures in the doorway and upstairs window.
Painted toy houseThree generations old, back in service.
A weathered wooden nest box numbered 06, fixed to the trunk of a large tree in open woodland.
Numbered nest boxOne of a set for the reserve down the road.
Want to see how a thing gets made? Come in on a Tuesday or Thursday, 9 to noon. Ring 03 xxx xxxx or email hello@example.org.nz. The kettle will be on.