On Friday, April 1, Our Studio group made our Men’s Shed Presentation for the studio class, Seth, Pete and Jeff jones from Lentara and we got some valuable feedback. The crucial question asked was ‘How are we going to move onto the next step?’ and Jeff cautioned us about focusing too much on aiming for corporate support. The advise Jeff gave us after the presentations was that a more realistic direction would be to engage in the community and get support from local residents and businesses.
How do we build on the current relationship and engage with the local community?
While we still need to gather more information from the Men’s Shed in Sunshine, one strategy our group thought of was for them to distribute newsletters that could be delivered by post, emailed or put up on notice boards, and also this becomes a way to keep donors up to date with what is happening at Men’s Shed.
Meeting Anthony and attending multiple Men’s Shed events and activities is our next step.