There’s little more devastating than someone coming onto your property and taking your possessions. Aside from the financial impact, the sense of loss and violation can be extreme, and tools that may have taken years to assemble can be gone in the blink of an eye.
Yet the statistics are worrying. According to a 2024 report by Aviva, more than a quarter of Brits surveyed had their sheds or outbuildings broken into, or an attempt made, and of those, 44% were at home at the time. The same report found that, on average, £870 of items were taken during a theft, with garden tools (37%), bikes (31%), sports equipment (28%) and power tools (28%) being the most stolen items.
