No more need for buckets at Men’s Shed

Gathering clouds won’t have users of the Peninsula Community Men’s Shed reaching for buckets anymore following a recent successful grant application.

A Community Building Partnership grant of $10,483 courtesy of the NSW Government will replace the leaking roof on the cottage in Memorial Dr at Ettalong Beach.

Member for Gosford Liesl Tesch popped in to deliver the cheque personally.

“On behalf of the men’s shed we thank you for the presentation of this cheque, so we can get a roof put on the shed,” President Bruce McLauchlan said.

“We won’t be using buckets anymore!”

A vital part of the community, the Peninsula Men’s Shed not only provides woodworking, carpentry and metalwork to help maintain men’s health but the cottage is used as a lounge and a counselling and meeting room.

“It was great to be able to give a Community Building Partnership grant to Peninsula Community Men’s Shed for their new cottage roof,” Tesch said.

“Thanks so much to the administrators for all their hard work and for every single one of you blokes getting out of the house and getting into our community activities.

“Visiting any of the three men’s sheds in our electorate brings me so much joy.”

The Gosford electorate has been granted $450,000 in funding for a total of 20 infrastructure projects through the $41M CBP program.