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Membership, inductions and volunteering

Membership and induction

Membership applications have been coming in since the grand opening, and we’ve inducted several people already, which means people are using their key fobs to access the makerspace whenever they want! We love it.

If you’d like to join, please fill in the membership application form here. And if you’ve already done that, you might have an email inviting you for an induction – get in touch at hello AT machspace DOT org and we’ll find a date and time that works for you. We have availability in the afternoons and evenings most days of the week at the moment, with mornings (hopefully) coming soon.

Open days

We’ve figured out our open day sessions! You can find them on our calendar page here. In summary, they’re Wednesday evenings and Saturday lunchtimes, with one every two weeks or so. The next one is Saturday 11th November, 12-2pm, which coincides with a repair cafe taking place at the Community Hub over the road.

Volunteering

Would you like to help make a makerspace? If so, we would love for you to join in! Machspace is a non-profit run by three volunteers with limited energy and time, so every little helps. Email us at hello AT machspace DOT org and tell us what you’re into!

In particular we’re looking for a woodworking specialist – because woodworking is something a lot of prospective members have expressed an interest in, and none of the directors have much expertise. If you’re proficient with woodworking, carpentry, power tools, etc. and you’re interested in helping out, please take a look at this volunteering “job description”.

We are open!

Yesterday afternoon/evening we held our grand opening, 3-6pm, and we had about 25-30 guests, lots of cupcakes and cups of tea, and many interested people, lovely and supportive comments, etc. It was so busy that we didn’t even get a minute to take any photos – and we ran out of paper membership registration forms and had to start referring people to the online registration form instead!

This afternoon we inducted our first four members, who now have their key fobs and can let themselves into the space anytime. We also inducted someone on the 3D printer, and just because this blog is for reporting the most important information, their test print was a blue rabbit.

For those of you who weren’t able to make the grand opening, if you want to come and see the space in person before signing up for membership we’ll be holding open days every couple of weeks – probably alternating between weekday-evenings and weekend-daytimes. We haven’t chosen the first dates yet but as soon as we have they’ll appear on the calendar page of this website.

And if you already know that you want to be a member, you can join anytime! It’s a two-stage process – first you sign up using our registration form, and then one of us will be in touch to arrange your induction, where you’ll sign the code of conduct and get your key fob.

We’ve also just started sending the rewards out to our crowdfunders, so if that’s you, keep an eye out. 🙂

It is so satisfying and gratifying to know that our first members are now able to use Machspace, laminating stuff and drinking cups of tea and repairing their whatevers and suchlike! Amazing stuff. Thank you everyone for your support, and we hope to see you at Machspace sometime soon!

Grand Opening postponed until 20th October

What with one thing and another, we’re coming to realise that Machspace won’t be as done as we’d like it to be by the planned Grand Opening on 6th October. It’ll probably be useable, but we’ll feel a lot better about what we’re offering if we can have a little bit longer to pull it all together and still have time to paint the walls and make build-your-own-cupcakes.

So, we’re postponing by two weeks. The Grand Opening will now be Friday 20th October, 3-6pm drop-in – and with any luck we’ll be 100% ready and 0% burnt out!