Cash helps build at Henley Men's Shed

SHED SHOUT: Member Terry Schischka and shed co-ordinator John Bush with JNL's domestic sales team at a thank-you lunch. From left, Robert Adshead, Gordon Wilmshurst, Frank Dekker and Jeff Cherry.

Henley Men's Shed's "multi-media lounge" and other extensions are on track thanks to a final funding from the Masterton South Rotary Club.

Their presentation of $10,000 completes the $87,000 required to fund the Men's Shed extensions.

The multi-media lounge will provide a quiet space for meetings, health and other tutorials, plus freeing up the kitchen area for cooking lessons and for morning tea and lunch breaks for the men.

Handing over the $10,000 cheque to Henley Men's Shed chairman Murray Campbell, Masterton South Rotary chairman Paul Greenlees paid tribute to the organisation, which he said has benefited more than 60 local schools and community groups during the five years it has been in existence.

He said the board bearing 120 name tags at the door was "pretty awesome".

Masterton Rotary Club provided $3500 plus labour to the project.

Merv Brown, a retired builder and Masterton Rotary Club member who represents the Henley Trust and was project manager on the job, said the two extensions completed major works on the shed. "Anything else will be done by the Men's Shed themselves," he said.

Other donors had included Trust House, Eastern and Central Bank, Carters, Juken New Zealand and M.B.Brown Ltd. A new building, which will accommodate noisy machinery currently in the main workshop, is being done by a commercial company. During the presentation, shed co-ordinator John Bush thanked Juken New Zealand for providing a discount on materials.