Do You Have the Best Garden Shed in Britain? Or the World? Take Part in Shed of the Year at Readersheds.co.uk

Cardiff, United Kingdom, January 22, 2009 --(PR.com)-- "Do you have a garden shed that is unique?" asks Uncle Wilco head sheddie of readersheds.co.uk. "Maybe it's your own little bolthole away from the trials of life. Maybe you have converted your humble garden building into a pub, or are a treehugger at heart and are building an eco shed, or maybe it's just a normal wooden building that's special to you."

If you as a sheddie are proud of your shed then now's the time to enter this year's 'Shed of the Year' competition, which takes place during the third National Shed Week commencing July 6th 2009.

Entries are already flooding in for Shed of the Year 2009 and you can add your shed online.

This year's celebrity judges are Radio 2 presenter Chris Evans, shed fancier and property guru Sarah Beeny and shed-based inventor of the windup radio, Trevor Baylis. They will be joined by shedworking expert Alex Johnson from shedworking.co.uk, eco architect Lloyd Alter, and Uncle Wilco, head sheddie from readersheds.co.uk and organiser of National Shed Week.

Following a public vote starting May 2009 which will produce a shortlist of winners, the judges will pick their "Shed of the Year 2009" during National Shed Week itself.

Last year's winner was Tim from Suffolk with his amazing octagonal Pub Shed at http://www.readersheds.co.uk/tim

Sheddies can join Tim - whose shed was featured in national newspapers and on television - and the hundreds of other sheddies by 'sharing your shed' on the internet's favourite shed fan site - www.readersheds.co.uk

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Note to editors:

Contact Uncle Wilco (Andrew Wilcox)
uncle.wilco@readersheds.co.uk
07787565693

This is the 3rd annual National Shed Week run by shed-based fan website readersheds.co.uk

During National Shed Week last year the site received around 13,000 visitors and 42,000 page views.

Last year there were more than 800 sheds fighting for the title of Shed of the Year from garden pubs, TARDIS sheds, allotment sheds, ones hand made from English Oak, cabins, summerhouses and even a shed on wheels

National Shed Week 2008 was mentioned both on-line and off-line by national and international press. Comments included:

"The excitement! The anticipation! Shed Week 2008 starts on Monday, and we sheddies are in a frabjous state. Shed Week celebrates the importance of the shed, hut or gazebo in our culture as a place of refuge, storage and amusement" - The Times

"I can say that Tim in Suffolk did a wonderful job with his pub shed, with complex framing and difficult trapezoidal skylights" - Lloyd Alter, treehugger

"All things shed-like are being celebrated up and down the country." - Radio 4's Women's Hour

"It's been a while since sheds came into it - and in the interval this splendid blog devoted to sheds and shedmen" - Brian Appleyard

"National shed week was the result of a typical touch of creative thinking from long term enthusiast Uncle Wilco" - The Daily Express

"Shed of the Year is a great excuse to wallow in the gorgeousness of all our sheds - and aren't they all fine" -Sarah Beeny, judge of Shed of the Year 2007, 2008 and 2009

Photos of the judges, last year's winner and logo are available from http://www.shedblog.co.uk/press/press-images/