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Hi everyone! Been away this week at our own YouTuber convention / meet-up in Newcastle, and we had a great time, as well as having a very productive day in Newcastle Arts Centre where each person led a session on a variety of topics.
Always a pleasure to catch up with the others, and great to have brainstorming sessions about possible collaborative ventures, one of which is something we’ve discussed before where we do a DIY:SOS type of thing, but with each of the group - or a smaller sub-set - taking part in a charitable ‘makeover’.
If you’re not familiar, DIY:SOS is a TV show that swoops in to offer help to those in need - there’s usually a sad back-story about how the recipients reached this point - and the show has a cast and crew of ‘character’ tradesmen but relies heavily on small companies and individuals offering their time and expertise for free in return for a ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ credit at the end of the show.
Personally I find this whole approach loathsome - everyone on the crew is getting paid, but they twist the arms of small independents to supply the tools, materials and skills, whilst at the same time giving an unreasonable impression of time-scales and the difficulty of the work they do. It’s also very light on detail when it actually comes to the actual work...
And so our band of YouTubers fancy having a go at doing something like this ourselves; a collaboration where we can use our skills to help a worthy cause, and make some great, watchable content. At least, we think it would be watchable, but ultimately you folks and people like you would be the audience, so is it something you would watch? And if anyone knows of a project that needs some help, then we’d be very interested to hear about it.
Let me know in the comments, OK?
In other news I completely messed up cutting the mortices for the small cabinet I marked up a week or so back - and didn’t realise until it was all done of course - so I’ve shelved that video for another day. Lesson learned; don’t try and do too much, especially when not feeling 100%
Thanks all!
Enjoy the rest of your weekend and I’ll see you in the midweek.
Peter
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Scout hut that needs work? loads of those around including my own in Derby! Nice and central for the team with great rail links 😂 No idea how insurance would work and it wouldn't be your problem but there are scout badges that tie into the whole maker skill set that often don't have the delivery route to show.
Loads of interesting little bits and pieces that need doing or the refurb of the toilets that we would love to get sorted so that we can move the what are those remembered from the 70's/80's of my school days all bar the tracing paper toilet roll to something more water efficient!
As an aside funding for materials could be sorted…
Give it a year and you'll be on Strictly ;-)
Definitely a good idea, and one worth exploring. My only caution would be, not to turn it into a SOS '2', so maybe give some thought as to what you're trying to achieve ie is it educational, or for charity or is it to demonstrate every day DIY solutions that the archetypal DIYer comes across and dissappear down a rabbit hole trying to solve. (Ie me trying to replace some old Guttering.. Definitely a 10 minute job that turned into 3 days !!
It's a very good idea Peter, would definitely watch. I don't have any suggestions, but if I hear of anything I'll let you know 👍. Between you all you should be able to bring in a few sponsors 😁.
I’d watch that. I’d also be willing to donate to material costs. Not loads, but I’m guessing others would be too?