Our Patron
Tanya Davies MP
State Member for Mulgoa
Welcome to
The St Clair and District Men's Shed
The major objective of the Shed is to advance the health and well-being of men.
We have a well equipped wood and metal workshop, providing a safe and friendly environment where skilled and unskilled men can work on a range of personal, shed and community projects.
We provide a place for men of all cultures to share their skills, learn new skills, make new friends, swap yarns or just socialise over a cuppa.
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About Us
The original members of 'Cecil's Place
Established as a social group for retired men in the local area, the group held informal meetings and hosted a number guest speakers, mainly about men's health and other men's issues.
This allowed acceptance of tool donations which gave members an opportunity to work on some projects to benefit the local community.
Unfortunately, the garden shed had limitations of storage space, accessibility and opportunities for bigger and more meaningful projects. It was time to find us a 'real' men's shed to work from.
On 25 July 2016, the group was renamed the St Clair and District Men's Shed (SCADMS), a Constitution was written and a committee formed. We were officially incorporated with NSW Fair Trading on 29 July 2016. Soon after, we registered with the Australian Men's Shed Association (AMSA).
In August 2016, we held discussions with CatholicCare, part of the Catholic Diocese in Parramatta about the possible use of some land on the Mamre House site to build a shed. In October 2016, CatholicCare advised us that we could move into a temporary building on their site, until we get approval to establish the permanent larger shed.
In July 2017 our local State MP, the Hon. Tanya Davies, accepted our offer to become our shed patron.
In February 2018 we were notified that we had received a grant from the NSW Government Community Building Partnership Grants program to help start to build our new shed on the Mamre House site.
In December 2018 we were notified that we had received another grant from the NSW Government Community Building Partnership Grants program to help build our new shed.
In December 2018 we submitted a Development Application to the Penrith City Council (PCC) to build our new shed on the Mamre House site.
The new shed was official opened in 2021.
Previous Projects
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The Gardeners
Some of our members, Bob, Allan and John, were vocal about starting a vegetable garden nea...
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Christmas Tree
Mary Contacted us via Facebook, asking if we could build the pictured Christmas Tree. Dav...
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A Big Coop for Emmaus Retirement Village
The Emmaus Retirement Village , at Kemps Creek, purchased a chicken coop for their residen...
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More Emmaus Benches
Four more Buddy Benches were delivered this week, by Tony and Allan, to Emmaus Catholic Co...
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Blackboard for Penrith Council
Dave Greaves, John Webster and various other members are building a Blackboard for Penrith...
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Jack and Jill Seat
At a Bunnings Warehouse BBQ late last year, a woman named Leanne Ongley from South Wentwor...
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Busy Boards
Established in 1972, Playgroup NSW is the peak body representing playgroups across the sta...
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Cutlery trays for The Day Club at St Marys RSL
The Day Club at St Marys RSL, asked us to make some Cutlery trays for them Dave our resid...
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Toys to Help Domestic Violence
Kelly Parker and Teresa Luccitti from Domestic Violence Service Management (DVSM) came to ...
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Buddy Benches for Local primary School
We made two Buddy Benches for Bennett Road Primary School. They were painted bright colour...
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Holy Cross
JP Abood brought to us a large wooden cross that CatholicCare had purchased. It is designe...
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Creating a Scene
Last November, CatholicCare asked our Shed if we could make a Nativity Scene for them, to ...
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Mamre Creche New Kitchen
We renovated the children's play kitchen at the Mamre House creche. We renovated a sma...
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Picnic Tables for Rutherglen Community Centre
Our Shed was asked to build some large picnic tables for the Rutherglen Community Centre i...
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Mamre House Desk
We were asked by the Mamre House people if we could modify one of their tables to make it ...
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Emmaus Table Tennis Table
Emmaus Catholic College asked us to make them a timber outdoor table tennis table. Allan W...
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On The Boardwalk
Ten of our members today went to the Caddies Creek Public School at Glenwood, near Blackto...
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Creche Cubby House
A while ago, the ladies running the creche at Mamre House asked us if we could build them ...
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Ahoy Ye Shipmates
Arrrrr, one of me shipmates, Tony B, made a pirate ship for the Harold Wheen PreSchool at ...
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Little Red Fire Engine That Could
Our resident toy maker, Peter, made a fire engine suitable for a small child. When it was ...
