A community hands-on activities workspace at the rear of 82 Grimsby Road which provides facilities and space to bring local residents together to get involved in activities.
When? built 2020. Still open 2025
The Red Shed at the rear of the community hub at 82 Grimsby Road is really much more than the sum of its parts.
It was a ‘build a kit’ shed constructed to allow an extra space for the community to get hands-on with activities that needed more than just a meeting room.
It’s been known as the ‘Super Shed’, the ‘Red Shed’ and eventually ‘Brocklebank Hall’ in memory of our colleague and friend Ian Brocklebank who passed away in 2020.
It’s a hands-on craft space with storage and facilities for groups to meet, keep their materials and keep their crafts ongoing. Groups meet to do various crafts, arts, model making and more.
It’s also a social space and a warmspace over the winters. People come together just to meet and be together. It’s a space for our Camerados Public Living Room too.
It has wifi and heating; a TV and video facilities; art walls; a 3d printer; lots of sewing machines and crafting materials and games and much much more.
Meetings are held in the shed. Community drop-ins, including Police Community Safety drop-ins take place there.
Workshops and pop-up events take place – including quite a few urban/graffiti art sessions.
And the doors themselves are a piece of art in memory of Ian Brocklebank!
Outside of the shed is a Plant Pot garden and green space and, with a picnic bench and a couple of other benches there is plenty of space in good weather for the socialising and craft work to spill out.
Read the story about the construction of the Red Shed here.
Read more about all the groups that use the Red Shed.
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When the Red Shed is booked for events outside hours then it can be self-sufficient with access to the external kitchenette and toilet.
And if visitors to 82 need extra access then a ramp is available for access into both the shed or the main building.
Brocklebank Hall
The Super Shed was christened “Brocklebank Hall” in 2022 in memory of Ian Brocklebank who passed away Dec 2020. Ian was a long term committee member of Big Local North Cleethorpes and connected to the charitable and voluntary sector for decades. He’d been a passionate supporter of all our work for the Cleethorpes community.
The rather plain, grey metals doors to the shed were painted Feb 2020 by artist Lynsey Powles.
