The Sunshine Mission is home to the Brimbank Men’s Shed which has 30 regular clients. They are mainly men who are 50 years and up. From the research that we gathered through the Men’s Shed association website and from visiting the Sunshine mission, we learned that as men get old and retire, many stop socialising as their jobs is their main point of social interaction. Some men go through trauma from losing family members and some suffer through mental illnesses. The Men’s Shed program is a place where these men who go through these things can feel welcome and socialise and do something with their time which are important to them. The men in Brimbank Men’s Shed is no different. It’s a second home for those 30 men, and without it, they may lose a big part of their current lives. Unfortunately, losing this Men’s Shed is possible. In communicating with the program’s co-ordinators, we learned that the Men’s Shed is unsustainable due to of lack of funding.The future of the Men’s Shed remains uncertain.

Our group strengths lead us to producing a video, designing a new web page and logo. We needed something that can work by the end of May which will give Lentara the month of June to use the video to gain funds and support.

We produced three videos. One main video that is 2 minutes in duration that is targeted at a wider audience attract that could be used on social media and also show as a corporate video. There is also 30 and 15 seconds versions to distribute on social media platforms.

The video uses interviews that we shot from the men at the men’s shed, Anthony and Casey. We believe that hearing the story of the men and the shed will give the Men’s Shed an image that communicates it is worth saving and the community needs it.

The web page is designed to consolidate the two Men’s Shed webpages which may cause confusion to those visiting the Lentara website. The logo was designed to further give the men’s shed an identity on top of the stories.