Gladstone Men’s Shed Assoc Inc. has been established in Gladstone for 10 years now and is affiliated with both the Australian Men’s Shed Association and the Queensland Men’s Shed Association.  Our large building at 18 Moura Crs, Barney Point, has been equipped and currently offers activities for metal and woodworking and we have expanded into computer assisted activities with our CNC Router and Laser Engraver with a large high-powered Laser Cutter and 3D Printer being commissioned in early 2024.

The shed is open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings from 8am to 12noon for workshop activities. 

The shed is also open for light exercises on Friday mornings 8am to 9am with time for a cuppa afterwards. 

For further directions on finding us please refer to map

Recent News:  

The Shed has excelled itself by holding a Shedder’s Big BBQ on Tuesday 26th March.  With 153 Shedders and 25 exhibiters there was much to see and do and talk about, there were a lot of compliments and you will see some of those on the Facebook posts for each Gladstone Men’s Shed, Australian Men’s Shed Association and Queensland Men’s Shed Association.

Expanding into a second building is well underway by getting to lock-up stage by Easter 2024.  Latest news is that we have been successful for an Iwasaki Foundation grant of $40,000 to bitumen the new building’s car park.  The listing of all the sponsor’s valuable contributions that has enabled this project to proceed and a photographic history of progress can be found under the menu item About Us > New Building Project 2024.

Getting ready for the new building has been a meeting to form a new group – Emerging Technologies.  Our Shed has got a core group of engineers, IT specialists and technicians who are happy to work shoulder to shoulder on activities different to that usually found in workshops.  We already have some great equipment being the CNC Router they previously built plus the almost commercial scale 3D Printer and Laser Cutter recently purchased with grant monies from the Gladstone Foundation.

A new issue of QMSA’s “Shed Chatter” can be found under Events/News > Newsletters and has some interesting stories – page 11 Crows Nest has just built a 500 sq.m. shed, it all looks just like what we are doing – page 13 Mt Gravatt has an Emerging Technologies Group that is so similar to our 3D Printer and upcoming Laser Cutter activities – page 14 & 15 is Boyne Tannum’s 10th Birthday, the photos are interesting.