National Shed Week Just Keeps Getting Better
The first National Shed Week was started in 2007 by Uncle Wilco (Andrew Wilcox) a shed fan from South Wales. Legend has it that he wrote to 10 Downing street suggesting that it be made a national event, in one of the worlds greatest faux pas they turned him down. Not being one to take no for an answer Uncle Wilco pressed ahead and started the event anyway to great success. Each year in July the UK papers are full of speculation and comment as to who will be this years winner. Before we go into a bit more detail a word or two from Uncle Wilco:
 | | Shed Week 2009 is in it's 3rd year and we have a wonderfulcollection of unique and inspiring garden buildings for entry into Shed of the Year competition. From normal Garden sheds, TARDIS, Pub Sheds and Workshops, some offthe shelf but a lot of them hand built, with hours of painstaking workfor the sheddie. We have a new category this year called Eco-sheds and would love to see more . We will be having a special competition for International Shed of theYear, where the best of our US, Canadian, Australian and elsewherewill pit themselves Cabin against barn against shed to win theconverted title. We hope the budding sheddies that visit the Secrets of Shed Building will put the skills they have learned here to good use and Share theirSheds You can view the entries so far or add your own via the website www.readersheds.co.uk Uncle Wilco |
Let's take a look at the judges that Uncle Wilco has assembled:
Sarah Beaney - Probably the sharpest and most astute commentator on property development on UK prime time TV.
Lloyd Alter - Architect and former developer of small building systems is now responsible for a large section of the output of the website Treehugger.
Trevor Bayliss - Vastly experienced inventor of things in his shed. Who has not recently come across one of his wind up devices a torch, radios etc.
Chris Evans - Definitely knows a good thing when he sees it. As presenter of BBC Radio Twos popular drive-time programme he will be bringing sheds to the nation of the first time this year.
Alex Johnson Chief Blogger at the daily updated blog about Shedworking.
Rico Daniels Presenter of the The Salvager show on the Discovery Channel.
Also Tim and Tony both previous winners of the competition are on this years panel.
So as you can see there are some well known and experienced faces there.
Lets have a look at the two previous winners sheds
 | The first winner in 2007 was Tony with his Roman Temple shed |  | The following year in 2008 the winner was Tims pub shed. |  | The winner in 2009 was the Kite Cabin in West Wales. |
National Shed week 2010
Are You Going To Enter Your Shed?
Building your own shed is a big investment of time and energy and what better place to show your work off to the world when you are done?If you are keen on entering the competition the requirements for entry are very simple just two photos, one of the outside and one of the inside of your shed. There are seven classes (Normal, Eco-shed, Garden Office, Cabin, Workshop, Unique, Summerhouse, Studio, Tardis, Hut, Wooden, Other) entry is free and open to sheddies anywhere in the world. National Shed Week in 2010 starts on July the 5th so make sure that YOU get YOUR SHED submitted well in advance!
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