New Zealand Men's Sheds

National Membership draft2

TO REGISTER

• Please arrange to pay a nominal membership fee of $10  directly into Wairarapa REAP Bank Account, where funds will be held on behalf until such a bank account is opened.
  • ·         Westpac  03 0687 03144400 00   Reference MENZ2012
  • ·         Completion of a national membership form attached should be sent to menz@waireap.org.nz
  • Once registration has been completed a MENZ  SHED  AOTEAROA registration number will be emailed to you.

You will notice that we have adapted an Australian Men’s Shed Association form – please N/A the STATE references.

You will also notice that  registration requires certification as  a  trust, incorporated society or auspicing body

AND an  insurance policy that covers Public Liability to A$10,000,000.

We are not at that stage yet and welcome (with intent) the registration of new and potential sheds ( those where an infrastructure is being created).

As mentioned earlier

Once members are registered the Association can begin to

Undertake strategic development and make national funding applications.

Provide support and guidance to sheds as they start up.

Put our sheds on a professional basis for long term national and local strategic development.

Organise a national  Conference of Shed Reps in 2012 (possibly June 2012 – such a  conference could include support and insights from Australian Men’s Shed Association Manager David Helmers)

Kind regards

Neil Bruce

Neil Bruce (Dr)

166 State Highway 26

Newstead RD6

Hamilton  3286

NEW ZEALAND

ph +64 7 8560054

Fx +64  7 8560054

mob +64 21 1545026

Neils-2011-Sept Web

Neil Brice presented the attached Power Point at the 2011 Australian men’s shed conference. Get in touch with him if you think you would find any of it useful for your shed.

The file below is a draft philosophy for a Menz Shed based on the Oxford Menz Shed and under current discussion by the New Brighton Menz Shed. The aim is to have clarity of purpose, and a relevant indicator of the foundations of  the shed to funders, community members and members of the shed.

New Brighton Menz Shed Philosophy

Used by the Kaiapoi Menz Shed and designed by the Canterbury Men’s Centre. You are welcome to modify it to use for your own menz shed meeting (approx 3 meg in size).
Kaiapoi Menz Shed Community Meeting

A sample of the deed used by the New Brighton Menz Shed, derived from the Oxford Menz Shed is attached.  It is done in Microsoft Word, and you can use edit/replace functions to change OUR Menz Shed to you you name quite handily. Thanks for sharing that guys! New Brighton Menz Shed Trust Deed 2

PS Feedback is, it can be a lot easier to just work inside an existing trust structure if you’ve got a local agency that has the skills and interest. The shed would be a committee inside that organisation, accountable to it to some degree.

Here is a copy of the Mens Shed Flyer with a list of Canterbury Sheds.

Mens Shed Flyer (PDF)

Ray Hall recently did a presentation for Men’s Health Week 2010 about men’s sheds and offered to post his Powerpoint on this site with the aim of others using it. Thanks to Ray for his effort with this project.

Community Mens Shed

The national web site has come out of the plan from the first national hui in April 2010. See this link for more info. menzshedaotearoa.org.nz

The Canterbury Men’s Centre originally set up the mensshed.org.nz  site to provide  minimal support for men to find local sheds around the country. We hope the site mentioned above does a much better job of this.

We suggest that if you want post info about your shed or want to put your hand up to find other guys to start a shed that you contact the other site.

We’ve been working hard in Canterbury to get our sheds up and going. You’ll find the first version of our flyer below (original design courtesy of the Wellington shed with a logo design courtesy of John Joseph Kingi. Thanks for the support guys!
You’ll find contact for the Cant’y groups on the Canty Menz Shed Flyer

We want to put info about your local shed on this web site? Please use the Feedback from at the left of this page to contact Donald and he will post it. We will also put info about it on a Google Map for you.

Want to start a shed? Contact us and we can tell you if anyone in your area is working on a shed now. Or we can tell others about you if you are working on one.