The Australian Men’s Shed Association is funded by the Federal Department of Health & Aged Care
We provide practical support to Men’s Sheds and deliver a wide range of services. The funding aims to improve the health and wellbeing of members and reduce the number of men who are at risk from preventable health issues that may emanate from isolation.
Promoting Men’s Wellbeing & Health
Through collaboration and strategic partnerships with national, state, territory and health related community services, AMSA has developed a range of resources and delivers three key wellbeing and health programs:
- Spanner in the Works? male health initiative, in collaboration with expert partner Healthy Male. The initiative is designed to provide better accessibility to health information and increase health literacy amongst Australian males.
- Living Well community wellbeing initiative, based on Implemental’s Wheel of Wellbeing. The initiative aims to promote the everyday building blocks to strengthen positive and proactive wellbeing across Men’s Shed communities.
- Shed Mates shedder wellbeing initiative. The Shed Mates initiative aims to empower Shed Wellbeing Teams and Shedders with a simple framework and a toolbox of resources for better wellbeing.
Research & resources
The Australian Men’s Shed Association is funded by the Federal Department of Health to provide practical support to Men’s Sheds and deliver a wide range of services. It aims to improve the health and wellbeing of members and reduce the number of men who are at risk from preventable health issues that may emanate from isolation.
Through collaboration and strategic partnerships with national, state, territory and health related community services such as beyondblue, Heart Foundation, Department of Veteran Affairs, Cancer Council, AMSA has developed a range of resources and delivered a variety of national initiatives such as ‘Spanner in the Works?, a men’s health project.
- The Indigenous Men’s Health Manual
- Health Speakers and Info Contact Guide July 2020 – Health Speakers & Info Contact Guide – a comprehensive list of health organisation ‘Peak Bodies’ (the experts in their field) who can provide guest speakers for Men’s Sheds.
- Men’s Shed Dementia Manual
- ‘Any Mug’s BBQ Cookbook’
- ‘A Beginner’s Kitchen’ cookbook
- ‘Spanner in the works?’