Menzshed Hawera
Community Organisation
Community Organisation
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Menzshed Hawera is now up and running.
Shed at the A&P Showgrounds Expo Building will be open on
Thursday , Friday and Saturday from 12pm til 5pm to start with.
More to follow.
To all members and interested persons.
There will be a meeting at the new MenzshedHawera shed at the A&P showgrounds Expo building on
Wednesday the 26th of February 2020 at 5.00pm
If you would like to join this organisation, the sub is $50 per calendar year. Due now.
The aim of a … View moreTo all members and interested persons.
There will be a meeting at the new MenzshedHawera shed at the A&P showgrounds Expo building on
Wednesday the 26th of February 2020 at 5.00pm
If you would like to join this organisation, the sub is $50 per calendar year. Due now.
The aim of a Menzshed is to foster a place where men and women of all ages can socialise, impart their gained knowledge and maybe learn a thing or two along the way.
We will be looking to provide the occasional hot roast meal to members, from the kitchen on the premises, as time permits.
At this early stage we are looking to raise money through subs to buy timber for workbenches and rent.
If you are keen to partake in this worthy cause, please subscribe at the meeting.
We already have some machinery, kindly donated by various people and organisations.
Come and have a look.
Thank You
Geoff Coubrough (Chairperson)
Our second general meeting of the Hawera Menzshed will be held at 5.30pm on Wednesday the 27th at the Hawera Club, 38 High Street, Hawera.
All interested persons (Men or Women) are welcome.
Just a reminder of Menzshed Hawera’s Meeting on
Wednesday the 27th November at 6pm at the
Hawera Club, 38 High street, Hawera
To discuss:
Placement of suitable building and sites
Membership Subscriptions
Tool Collection and storage
Any General Business
… View moreJust a reminder of Menzshed Hawera’s Meeting on
Wednesday the 27th November at 6pm at the
Hawera Club, 38 High street, Hawera
To discuss:
Placement of suitable building and sites
Membership Subscriptions
Tool Collection and storage
Any General Business
Please attend, if you can.
Geoff Coubrough
Chairperson
South Taranaki’s first Mens Shed proposed
A meeting last Saturday afternoon in the Hawera Club attracted thirty members of the public, interested in establishing a Mens Shed in the town.
Welcomed by Geoff Coubrough who, along with Peter Gulliver, has been exploring the possibilities of creating… View moreSouth Taranaki’s first Mens Shed proposed
A meeting last Saturday afternoon in the Hawera Club attracted thirty members of the public, interested in establishing a Mens Shed in the town.
Welcomed by Geoff Coubrough who, along with Peter Gulliver, has been exploring the possibilities of creating a shed in Hawera. After a period of researching the concept and visiting the Whanganui and New Plymouth sheds they had concluded the time was right to convene a meeting of interested parties to try and get a shed up and running.
Mr Coubrough, then introduced Murray Campbell, a member of the Henley Mens Shed in Masterton, to explain the background of the movement and how Mens Sheds operated. Mr Campbell opened his address by showing a video, filmed in his shed, promoting the benefits such a shed generated to not only its members, but the wider community.
He then went on to explain how, in the mid nineties in rural Australia it was realised that men over the age of 65 were committing suicide at an alarming rate. Research showed that these men, following retirement, became isolated, lonely, depressed and ultimately suicidal. They had a mental health problem. The idea was born that if a building with tools in it was made available, men came, and by working together, created new friendships, passed on and learned new skills and generally enjoyed the camaraderie which improved their health and well being.
Since then the phenomenon has spread worldwide with around 130 sheds operating in New Zealand. Murray described some of the challenges which presented themselves each day, from broken chairs to kindergartens requiring toys and equipment to be made or repaired and requests from individuals and organisations for assistance. Mens sheds are busy places.
The meeting finally elected a steering committee, headed by Geoff Coubrough, to form a Mens shed and seek a suitable building to base it in.
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