Nine members of the Cunderdin Men’s Shed drove all the way down to visit our shed as part of their ‘social excursion’ activities.  A cuppa, lots of chat, a tour of our shed, showing the kinds of things we’re doing, culminating in a warm invitation for Vincent Men’s Shed to visit Cunderdin Men’s Shed anytime.

Our annual report and financial statement for 2016 is now available via our Committee page.

Visited by MP Christian Porter, Minister for The Department of Social Services, Warren Pearson, Regional Director & Peter Ryan, Assistant Director of Settlement & Multicultural Services. The Minister was there to announce grants for Men’s Shed in WA, his Department did give us a grant of $5000.00 earlier on this year to go towards the Dust Extractor. The Minister & his people were impressed with our shed, especially the cleanliness & positive energy.

We now have a dedicated trainer at the Shed: Bruce Carman.  Bruce’s role will be to mark of all members who attend the shed as competent at their level of use of tools, power tools & machinery.  We will be using a colour coded dot system that will indicate their level of competency to be placed on their name badges.

Inductions

A short induction to the shed needs to happen before a new member can use the workspace of the shed. We are also endeavouring to check all members of as competent in using the power tools & machinery they need to use. We are also wanting to introduce training on equipment as & when we have the people to do the training, this is (work in progress).