Downtown Rotary meeting - 4 February 2020

Rotary Club of Downtown Auckland, Inc.

Weekly meeting – Tuesday 04/02/2020

Mal McLennan

RCDA honorary member

“Men’s Shed”

Mal explains that a shed brings men together in a community space to share their skills, have a laugh, and work on practical tasks individually (personal projects) or as a group (for the shed or community).

The projects a shed tackles are up to the shed concerned, however most New Zealand sheds take on community projects, such as building playgrounds for pre-school centres, repairing toy library stock, repairing old bikes for distribution to poorer communities, and building planter boxes for the main street of the local central business district.

The shed is a great place for blokes to learn new skills. Builders teach engineers some of their skills and vice versa – and accountants are shown a plethora of skills they never had the opportunity to learn in their working lives. Some sheds have women members or have sessions catering for women who wish to acquire new skills and get involved in personal or community projects.

Mal McLennan is a long-standing club member. He has been involved in many significant club projects over the years, including most recently helping us raise $100,000 for the Club’s charitable trust by putting up a substantial donation himself.

​Please note:

Breakfast meeting registrations close at 11 a.m. on the Monday. For a short time after this, it may be possible to request changes via President Byran.

Failure to register your attendance can cause problems for Northern Club catering.

Introducer/host: Wayne Dyer

Thanker: Elaine Ebbett

Reception: Wayne Dyer & Mike Campbell

Upcoming meetings:

11/02/2020

Gavin Findlay

CEO of KiwiHarvest

An update on KiwiHarvest

18/02/2020

Professor Chris Hollis

Visiting Scholar

UK mental health