Bateau Bay Men's Shed

There’s always someone in a Shed who makes people laugh and George is certainly in this category. He made it very clear that he didn’t want anyone to know it was his 82nd birthday last week but then proceeded to tell anyone and everyone who set foot through the Shed door that it was his […]

With a prime position at the Forresters Beach Retirement Village Coastal Lifestyle Festival we were able to promote the Coasts Men’s Sheds to many interested visitors. Our range of wooden toys out front drew many admirers which gave us the opportunity to engage them in conversations about Sheds. It also helped when their children took

Thanks to the NSW Government through their Community Builders Funding our Shed is now a cleaner and healthier place to work. Five Filter cartridges have been fitted to the dust extractors attached to our major machinery and all are working very efficiently. Previously air was ejected through calico bags hanging above the extractor fans but

Killarney Men’s Shed in Ireland approached AMSA for information on a Shed in Killarney in Australia. Bateau Bay Men’s Shed was approached as we are located very close to Killarney Vale in NSW. From this initial contact we have begun to exchange information about starting a Shed, Induction procedures, constitutions and governance as well as

The last of the Christmas toys have left the Shed and all that is required now is for the parents and Grandparents to keep them hidden until Christmas. Have a very Merry Christmas and a great New Year!

Tom Greene had a great time teaching the students how to play the Bass Marimba he had made for the school. This is only 1 of 5 he made as OIC of the 2011 Marimba Team Project. The 4 other instruments were Tenor Marimbas which looked similar but were without the hanging resonance pipes. The

Four members of the Shed accepted the offer to promote AMSA at the Telstra 500, the final race of the 2011 V8 Supercar championship. With “fair dinkum sheds” a corporate sponsor of AMSA the chance to jointly promote both organisations was also an opportunity to visit the sponsors pit and chat with the Carl Reindler

The men from the Shed have been very busy over the last couple of months working on a number of toys to be donated to a charity for deserving children at Christmas. The colourful collection on display shows some of the gifts ready for delivery.

The Shed has presented 3 Tenor Marimbas and 1 Bass Marimba to St John Fisher School after a lengthy building program. Thanks to Tom and his team the musical instruments will enhance the teaching of music in the school for many years to come. The quality of construction is only matched by the quality of

When ‘Bessie the Laughing Cow’ first started out as a stick of recycled timber little did she know that one day she would be transformed into ‘Bateau the Beautiful Bovine’. Today for the first time she was able to feel grass under her rockers and sense the sun on her saddle. We just hope that