photo credit: Simon Shek

I have finally got my head round it and people keep asking me!, which is fair as I am supposed to be head sheddie and running this thing…

So here are the Dates for your diary in the run up to Shed of the Year 2009

Closing date for your Shed to be entered for Shed of the Year 2009

Sunday 3rd May 2009

So existing sheddies get your sheds up to date, with at least two images (external & internal) but more images will give the judges more idea, if your shed gets thorough to the final.

Closing Date for Our Flickr Shed Photo Competition.

Sunday 3rd May 2009

Get your shed related photos up onto the group NOW, we love arty ones as well as everyday sheds, of course if the shed is yours why not put it up onto readersheds.co.uk and it may be Shed of the year 2009

Public voting Starts

Monday 4th may 2009

Closing Date for public voting of the Sheds

Sunday 21st June 2009

Shed Category Winners announced on shedblog.co.uk & readersheds.co.uk

Wednesday 1st July 2009

These winners will then go through to the final judging, so your shed will be at mercy of our super set of judges

Chris Evans, Sarah Beeny, Trevor Baylis, Alex(from shedworking), Lloyd Alter,
Rico Daniels ,Tim(last years winner), Tony(Previous Years winner) and me.

Shed Week 2009 Starts

6th July 2009

We will have various things happening during shed week, but if you want to throw ideas at me then Contact me or Twitter me with the hashtag #shedweek

Announced of our Flickr Photo competition.

Shed of the Year 2009 Announced

Wednesday 8th July 2009

Of course they may be slight changes due to unforeseen shed based circumstances

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It’s my great pleasure again this year that I can announce that top British inventor and renowned sheddie and pipe smoker Trevor Baylis has agreed to be one of the judges again in this years Shed of the year 2009.

As you all know Trevor was the brains behind the clockwork radio and many other life changing inventions.

Trevor has always worked tirelessly to promote the cause of the lone inventor, and has been concerned about the neglect of invention, inventors, and intellectual property in the UK for many years. To help improve this situation, he set up a company called Trevor Baylis Brands plc which helps inventors take their products to market.

Such as the Eco Media Player Revolution, Mini Eco Radio and the handy Eco Lantern and the Eco-Pro Torch and Mobile Phone Charger!

These products are available from the Ethicial Superstore

Trevor Joins the other judges for this years competition, Chris Evans, Sarah Beeny, Lloyd Alter, Alex (from shedworking), Tim (last years shed winner) and my good-self (unclewilco), so I think he is in good company!

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Happy new year sheddies, I hope this year brings you more shed related antics than 2008.

I hope Shed Week 2009 will be the best ever (If I get my planning done now)

Anyway talking about Shed Week I would like to report that Lloyd Alter, ‘treehugger’ and eco architect has agreed again to be a judge in this years competition, cheers Lloyd.

A bit about Lloyd, who hopefully will be putting his expertise forward for the new Eco-Shed category plus have some good views on the International Shed of the Year.

Lloyd Alter has been an architect, developer, inventor, and builder of prefab housing. He now writes for TreeHugger, is an Associate Professor at Ryerson University teaching sustainable design, and has written for Azure and Ontario Nature magazines. In the course of his previous work developing small residential units and now prefabs, Lloyd became convinced that we just use too much of everything- too much space, too much land, too much food, too much fuel, too much money, and that the key to sustainability is to simply use less. And, the key to happily using less is to design things better.

So if you have an Eco shed, be it made from recycled materials, covered in grass or anything else, then please “Share it” for Shed of the Year 2009.

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We are very please to announce that sheddies favourite Sarah Beeny has agreed to be a judge for next summers Shed of the year competition, which of course is held during Shed Week (Starting 6th July 2009 for nearly a whole week)

Sarah is famous here in the UK for her skills as a property developer on shows such as Property Ladder and is the author of many best selling property related books.

But to us Sarah is a shed fan this will be the third year that The Beeny has been a judge and we are very happy to have her back.

In terms of judges, Shed Week 2009 is starting to take speed what with Chris Evans becoming a judge the other week.

Iam in discussion with a couple of international judges and Iam sure Shedworking hero, Alex will gives us his take as a judge as well!

If you are a company or organisation interested in sponsoring Shed Week 2009, get in touch with me and I will send you details once I have finalised this that and the other

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DJ Chris Evans of BBC Radio 2 (to name one thing) and friend of readersheds (since I have been on his radio show twice in the past promoting shed week and Shed of the year) has agreed to be a judge in next years Shed of the Year competition, of course Chris may hope a Pub Shed will win again next year!

This year will be our third attempt at celebrating all that is good about sheds, from TARDIS, pub sheds and the new Eco shed categories.

Chris wrote about it on his blog today

I arrive in work and suddenly I feel a smile coming on as I receive an invite from Uncle Wilco to judge The Shed of the Year comp 2009. My, Uncle Wilco I would be delighted. Put me down.

Chris is the first judge to sign up and I hope to get him doing a Q&A in the new year.

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