As well as promoting health and wellbeing, men's sheds are also proving to be good places to address environmental issues

Sometimes innovative development strategies can be born out of adversity. One such example is the so-called 'Preston model' of Community Wealth Building (CWB) in the UK, which has been hailed as an exemplar for other cities and towns.

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