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COMMITTEE MEMBERS
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| Shed Coordinator |
Bill Jewell |
| Secretary |
Bill Jewell |
| Chairman |
Peter Magree |
| Treasurer |
Bill Hall |
| Vice President |
Bill Jewell |
| Member Representative |
Ron Lear |
| Member Representative |
John Mardling |
| Member Representative |
Bruce Brown |
| Member Representative |
John Vestergaard |
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TEAM LEADERS
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| Woodworking |
Bruce Hester |
| Engineering |
Lyndon Joss |
| Painting |
George Mioncic |
| Food |
Peter Magree |
| Computers and Website |
John Mardling |
| Events and Publicity |
Gregor Howie |
| Storeman |
Geoff Thomas |
| Tool Marshal |
John Vestergaard |
| Games |
Bill Jewell |
| OH & S |
Lindon Joss |
| Almoner |
Paul Rankin |
| Member Secretary |
Ken Butler |
OUR HISTORY
In March 2016 a
meeting was held at the Bendigo Bank East Malvern to establish a
Men’s Shed and a steering committee was formed with the
bank’s Peter Norman as chairman. The bank gave a grant of
$500 to help with the startup and soon after it was registered as an
incorporated organisation.
Once this was done, we
joined the AMSA – the Australian Men’s Shed Association and
by November/December of that year, weekly meetings with guest speakers
were being held at the Phoenix Park Community centre.
Also in December, the
East Malvern RSL provided 2 rooms for us to occupy and for the next six
months we had a weekly working bee to clean out the rooms & setup
our shed. As part of this we needed to rewire the premises and
refit the kitchen, paid for with grant of $3,000 from Rotary Chadstone
/ East Malvern.
To help us along
we had many donations of tools, equipment, timber, and furniture from
local residents, RSL members, Bunnings, Peters Mitre 10 & other
Men’s Sheds.
June - August
2017 was also taken up with arranging the workbenches, equipment,
shelving, cleaning & setting up donated equipment.
Our shed is open every
Tuesday 9.00am to 1.00pm and Wednesday 9.00am to 3.00pm when our core
group continues to refine the shed setup & undertake simple jobs of
repairs to furniture for the RSL & others. We enjoy coffee tea
& biscuits for morning tea & a simple lunch of soup, hot dogs,
pizza, sausage sizzles and pies.
As our numbers grow, we will open extra days of
the week, & in 2019 it become apparent that we were fast outgrowing
our 2 rooms.
In the middle of 2019 Stonnington Council granted
us new premises in Ivanhoe Grove East Malvern, together with a grant to
refurbish the hall.
ANNUAL FEES
$40.00 PER YEAR, RENEWABLE ON JULY 1ST EACH YEAR.
A $2 COIN PER VISIT GOES TOWARDS MAINTAINING THE KITCHEN, TEA AND COFFEE FACILITIES.
A LUNCH IS PROVODED EACH WEDNESDAY FOR AN EXTRA $3, IF DESIRED.
CURRENT MEMBERS
