Childish antics

LET’S talk about the Toodyay Men’s Shed.

We spent 11 years moving from place to place maintaining an atmosphere of “Blokes Supporting Blokes”.

Then the Shire of Toodyay granted us a place in the sun and with the help of Lotterywest and a grant of $200,000 and some smaller grants amounting to almost $21,000 we built a wonderful place that is a credit to the town of Toodyay.

In addition, this was achieved with the hard work of our members to the value of $105,000 in cash and kind, all of this from hard-earned money from wood raffles, clearing roads verges for the Shire of Toodyay, the Markets and other projects, over a period of 11 years.

We are a “not for profit” incorporated body and have been since 2009.

We now operate under the Associations Incorporation Act 2015 and the State Government handed down a constitution on the 19 November 2009 that was revised in November 2017 for us to follow.

Sadly, some of the members didn’t believe that adhering to this constitution was necessary nor did they not understand the work required to follow the rules.

Fred Fellowes
Coondle