Our Objectives

The Kendenup Community and Men’s Shed Inc. is open to both women and men. We are registered with the Australian Tax Office as a health promotion charity with exemption from GST and income tax.  As a community organisation our goals are:

1. To address the issues of men’s mental, physical, and emotional health and wellbeing in the community.
2. To engage the elderly, differently-abled, youth, veterans, indigenous and other groups of men from Kendenup and the surrounding area and to specifically address any issues of loneliness, isolation and depression.
3. To support the social interaction of men in transitional periods (e.g. Redundancy, Bereavement, Retirement, Ill Health, Relocation and Respite Care).
4. To share, disseminate and preserve the skills, abilities and interests that are relevant to the community.
5. To facilitate links between men and health-related agencies, family organisations and specialist health professionals within the community.
6. To advocate the benefits of partnerships between men’s sheds and community.
7. To develop a men’s shed which can operate on a cost-neutral basis, that is, its ongoing costs can be met or exceeded by its revenue.
8. To initiate and continue activities of particular relevance to men.
9. To provide strong social fabric for men experiencing isolation.

Women in the Shed.

Women are welcome at the KCMS Inc. as they are valued members of our community and we would like to welcome everyone who would like to contribute or take part in our shed activities. Everyone has skills and knowledge they can share  and we can all learn rom each other while enjoying a safe place to socialise and have fun. We maintain a “men only” session on Saturday mornings to continue the ethos of “men’s sheds.”