CONTACT
Email: malenymensshed@hotmail.com
Phone: 0491 710 506
Postal Address: PO Box 5, Maleny QLD 4552
LINKS
MEETING VENUE
7 Bryce Lane (within Pioneer Village) Maleny
MEETING VENUE
Tuesday and Friday 8am – 12pm
MEMBERSHIP
$80 per year
ABOUT
For over 10 years, the Maleny Men’s Shed has been a place for men in the Maleny area to get together regularly, enjoy hands-on activities, make new friends, focus on wellness, and talk about men’s business. Most of the guys involved are retired, and find the Shed an excellent way to mix with like-minded people. Shed activities include woodwork, metalwork, blacksmithing, restoration of farm machinery and wagons, restoration of furniture and toys, and gardening. Shedders participate in many community initiatives including the Australia Day events, the Maleny Agricultural Show, sausage sizzles, and the Maleny Community Centre’s kiosk. The Shed focuses on peer support, and regularly has guest speakers with expertise in men’s physical and psychological health.
In 2025, the Men’s Shed expanded, adding a huge, ex-military shed to their footprint, a project several years in the making, with construction done by the Shedders themselves. This new shed is a wonderful resource where Shedders socialise and engage in less messy activities than in their other facilities; activities such as wellbeing workshops.
The Shed’s Health and Wellbeing Officer published a comprehensive Wellbeing Workbook to enhance Shedders’ health and wellness. The workbook emphasises empirically-supported information and activities that enable members and their families to improve physical and emotional health, happiness, productivity, and longevity in retirement. The workbook is supplemented with monthly interactive workshops at the Shed. The workbook is available to the broader Maleny community, and all Men’s Sheds.
Maleny Men’s Shed has deductible gift recipient (DGR) status with the ATO. This means that they receive donations which are tax-deductible.