The Wood Turning Shed is still a work in progress with the cupboard fitting well underway with donated cupboards. The internal roof cladding is now complete and looks great! Good job by John and his team.    

Our building consent application is now registered with the Council, now we just have pay the invoice for things to start moving, I knew there was a catch! 

Community projects have slowed a little with the Easter holidays having an effect, but this has given us time to catch up with some of the outstanding projects we have. 

A donated garden bench was refurbished by Lindsay and is looking for a new home. We have decided to donate this to one of our sponsors as a thank you for their continued support. 

Repairs were made to a toy wooden rail track after being “derailed” by an over-zealous young driver. Several spare joiners were provided for future repairs to ensure that any delay due to failure was minimised! Thanks to Tony and Eiann for some exacting work on the joiners but also on creating new handles for a couple of trowels that needed some TLC! 

A wishing well was also refurbished thanks to Lorne who did a great job with the paintbrush after Phil K had repaired the windlass. Well done guys! 

Keiron has taken on a very challenging job of “beautifying” an old dolls pram. The frame needed welding and wheels repainting, but the customer wanted to keep the “old world charm” of the original pram cover and paintwork on the body. Can’t wait to see how it comes out! 

Doug has been busy repairing and refurbishing a series of wooden puzzles for a local kindy. The work was quite time consuming, but the effort paid off. Some of the puzzles had to be “cut down” as too many pieces were missing. However, about a dozen made it through after application of some delicate artwork to restore them and cutting out profiles to match the missing pieces  

On completion of the puzzles, Doug started a long outstanding job for a Mud kitchen requested by a local kindy. Construction proceeded quickly after sourcing the right components and the item was ready for delivery in just over a week. 

We continue to actively look for a container to alleviate some of the congested storage space we have so you know of someone with a surplus container, please contact us at the contact address below. 

We would also like to remind all the Kindy’s in Upper Hutt of how we may be able to help them. During this year we intend to be in contact with as many Kindy’s as we can and provide help to at least some of them. We have noted a few Kindy’s have been in contact already and several new projects have been requested. So don’t miss out and contact us, we are always ready to listen. 

If you have a project in mind and you think we can help, then feel free to contact us for a chat and we will do our best to assist you.  

contactus@upperhuttmenzshed.kiwi 

Don’t forget to visit our website for details on where we are and what we do. 

You can visit it here:- 

https://upperhuttmenzshed.kiwi

We are always on the lookout for new members and later this year we will have a metalworking facility. Maybe you have seen our display in the Mall which shows some of the things we do and who we do them for. If you have and would like more info, contact us for a free tour and meet the team. 

contactus@upperhuttmenzshed.kiwi 

If you want to join us, even for just a cup of tea and a yarn, pop in to see us, you will be more than welcome. Just come along @ 10am Tue to Fri. We are open 9 – 12 Tues to Fri. You will find us at McLeod Park just past the BMX track.

A “thank you” to Upper Hutt Menzshed for sending this article to The Upper Hutt Connection.

01/05/26