16 Charlie Bethel: Men and the Men in Sheds Movement

Charlie Bethel is the Chief Executive Officer of the UK Men’s Sheds Association and has been with the organisation for over five years.  On leaving University where he studied Industrial Design, Charlie embarked on a career in Paralympic Sport having served as Chief Executive of British Wheelchair Basketball prior to joining Men’s Sheds.  He continues this love of wheelchair basketball as an Executive Council member on the sport’s international governing body.  He believes strongly in the transformational power of men’s sheds and sport as a way of improving and saving lives.

Key points of this episode:

• The people that inspired Charlie in childhood.

• A very famous relative!

• How psychometric testing can be damaging.

• The transformational power of Mens Sheds....

• ....and the challenges faced.

• The Unconscious Bias sometimes encountered

• How "the tide should raise all boats", and it should not be exclusivist.

• The imporatnce of gender specific interventions (and probably not for the reason you think)

• His vision for the future, both strategically and politically.

Reach out to Charlie for more information here -
www.menssheds.org.uk - including finding the sheds in your area.