Come along for our Thursday morning clean-up of the shed and then stay and enjoy our famous SCMS Morning Tea - fitting for Easter week with shed-baked 'Hot Cross Buns' - no scones in sight this week! We will also have a few Hot Cross Bun gift boxes with 4 buns for sale to members at $8/box. Make sure you grab your box(es) before they sell out!

All Members who intend to be part of the Woodworking Group will need to complete this Power Tools Induction Training. There is a once off Cost of $10 for this Training Course, which can be paid when you purchase a ticket. Note: Members are required to complete the 'Yellow Dot' Shed Introduction session before taking part in a Red Dot training session. There will be a maximum of 3 persons for each Training Session.  If after booking, for some reason you cannot attend the training, please advise the Red Dot coordinator, Jeremy Wallace, on 0406927650 (SMS please), or email (jeremywallace5@outlook.com) as soon as possible, so we can arrange another session for you.  If you have trouble booking please contact Jeremy by SMS. The successful completion of the Red Dot Training is a pre-requisite to booking the Blue Dot Woodwork Machinery Course. Once you have completed this Training, your Membership Badge will updated to show a Red Dot and enable you to undertake any projects in the Main Workshop that utilise only Power Tools. 

To maintain your Blue Dot Woodworking Accreditation you will need to, you will need to undertake a Verification of Competency (VOC) Assessment as follows. Woodworking members aged under 75 years will be assessed every 24 months Woodworking members aged 75 to 80 years will be assessed every 18 months Woodworking members aged 80 to 90 years will be assessed every 12 months Woodworking members older than 90 years  will be assessed every 6 months You will be assigned a simple task which shouldn’t take more than about 30 minutes. This is not a test of your craftsmanship; it is simply a demonstration that you can competently use the machinery unsupervised without endangering yourself or others.  You can book your VOC Assessment by clicking on your preferred VOC Assessment date below. The Rostered Supervisor for the day will oversee your assessment and he will either deem you "competent" or refer you to a Trainer for further assessment or training. If you choose not to do the VOC Assessment,  you will no longer be able to use the Machine Room equipment unsupervised.

Hi all, As you might know, the Shed has purchased a Bambu 3D printer recently.  After the installation and a good amount of successful tests, we now want to explain/show to you what the 3D Printer can do and how we are planning to run the machine at the Shed and how we anticipate to do the training. We would like to invite you to our first event “Introduction to 3D Printing”. The event will take place in the meeting room at the Shed on Friday 27th March 2026 at 1pm. Only a limited amount if tickets are available, so please be quick. Cheers Otti

For our March Sundowner, your Kitchen Team is ready to roll up their sleeves again and prepare a sumptous meal to be enjoyed 'under the stars' in our SCMS Garden area. Kitchen Team Lead Werner Ribul has decided to bring back one of our all-time favourite menus featuring Roast Porchetta, potatoes, corn cobs and some nicely charred broccolini - all cooked in our famous Wood-fired oven and combined with a refreshing no-mayo Coleslaw. To finish off the meal, we will serve you another SCMS favourite dessert, a Summer Fruit Pavlova. This surely is going to 'knock you out for 6'! For this event, spouses / partners & friends are welcome to join, so please register early to avoid the disappointment of missing out on this occasion as the venue capacity is strictly limited!   Cost for food for this special occasion will be $25 with beer and wine at standard prices.   As usual, we require pre-payment with your registration.  You will be able to get a credit towards a future event if you cancel at least 1 day before the event, please send an email to wernerribul@mac.com . No-shows on the day will forfeit their ticket fee. We hope you will be able to join us!  Best regards, Werner & Michael.

All members are welcome to join our Art Group and explore their own artistic talents, try a new medium, have a go or just watch, chat and learn a little as other members experiment and create. No previous experience is necessary. We are a very informal group with a range of talents and abilities but just having a go - absolute beginners to "old" masters!

As foreshadowed at our previous tasting, we are holding an extra event in March hosted by yours truly.  While the last two meetings are hard acts to follow we will give it a try.  This next tasting will showcase Shiraz from the Barossa valley.  The wines will all be current vintages and include some you probably wont have tasted before.  You may remember that Chris and I are fans of Artisan's of the Barossa as they showcase some of the smaller producers of the region.  We compiled a Shiraz tasting pack featuring 6 different wineries covering vintages 2021, 2022 and 2023. These years were quite different in the growing conditions and it will be interesting to see if we have a preference.  There will also be a couple of mystery wines in the group as well. As usual there will be 20 tickets at $25 each.  So if you wish to attend please be quick as places go quickly  

The Wellbeing Group is proud to present this talk by CyberWest Hub on SCAMS. Due to timing availability of speakers and room availability, please note that this Wellbeing talk is on a Tuesday Morning, rather than our regular Wednesday afternoon talks. The aim of the talk is to help you stay one step ahead of online scams. Whether you want to brush up on your digital skills or just stay safe online, this workshop is for you. Hear from a friendly cyber safety expert from CyberWest Hub Get hands-on help with your own device (phone, laptop, or tablet) Learn simple ways to keep your information safe online Bring your device along and enjoy a scone (supplied by our very own Kitchen Group so you know they will be great) and a cuppa while getting practical tips and support in a relaxed, welcoming environment. Again, please diarise this event for the Tuesday morning when we shall be commencing this hands on workshop at 10:00am  

Thank you for booking your next adventure! You will hand-fly the simulator, operate the engines, see how the navigation systems work, all under close supervision with your guide (instructor). We can only take one person at a time in a pilot’s seat, but we do have 2 passenger seats if you would like to “bring a friend”, or two. To book, please email flightsim.lead@msclaremont.tidymail.co. This system does not generate a notification to the Flight Sim Group, so please send an email to this address to reconfirm your booking. If the times that we have scheduled do not suit you, or are already booked, please send us an email anyway, and we will do our best to accommodate you. Subject to the availability of a simulator guide (instructor), we can operate  Mon – Fri  8.30am – 4.30pm.

To maintain your Blue Dot Woodworking Accreditation you will need to, you will need to undertake a Verification of Competency (VOC) Assessment as follows. Woodworking members aged under 75 years will be assessed every 24 months Woodworking members aged 75 to 80 years will be assessed every 18 months Woodworking members aged 80 to 90 years will be assessed every 12 months Woodworking members older than 90 years  will be assessed every 6 months You will be assigned a simple task which shouldn’t take more than about 30 minutes. This is not a test of your craftsmanship; it is simply a demonstration that you can competently use the machinery unsupervised without endangering yourself or others.  You can book your VOC Assessment by clicking on your preferred VOC Assessment date below. The Rostered Supervisor for the day will oversee your assessment and he will either deem you "competent" or refer you to a Trainer for further assessment or training. If you choose not to do the VOC Assessment,  you will no longer be able to use the Machine Room equipment unsupervised.

All Members who intend to be part of the Woodworking Group will need to complete this Power Tools Induction Training. There is a once off Cost of $10 for this Training Course, which can be paid when you purchase a ticket. Note: Members are required to complete the 'Yellow Dot' Shed Introduction session before taking part in a Red Dot training session. There will be a maximum of 3 persons for each Training Session.  If after booking, for some reason you cannot attend the training, please advise the Red Dot coordinator, Jeremy Wallace, on 0406927650 (SMS please), or email (jeremywallace5@outlook.com) as soon as possible, so we can arrange another session for you.  If you have trouble booking please contact Jeremy by SMS. The successful completion of the Red Dot Training is a pre-requisite to booking the Blue Dot Woodwork Machinery Course. Once you have completed this Training, your Membership Badge will updated to show a Red Dot and enable you to undertake any projects in the Main Workshop that utilise only Power Tools. 

All members are welcome to join our Art Group and explore their own artistic talents, try a new medium, have a go or just watch, chat and learn a little as other members experiment and create. No previous experience is necessary. We are a very informal group with a range of talents and abilities but just having a go - absolute beginners to "old" masters!

We are scheduled to prepare another Homeless meal in cooperation with Matilda Bay Rotary Club. Now that Summer has well & truly taken hold, we will be cooking a more fresh and healthy menu for our Homeless meals, depending on the type of produce that will be dropped off by MBRC. Anybody is welcome to drop by our kitchen and say 'Hello' to our team. Best regards, Geoff.

Woodworking Machinery Induction (Blue Dot) – Phases 1 & 2 All Members who wish to use the woodworking machinery in the Machine Room will need to complete Phase 1 & Phase 2 of the Woodworking Machinery Induction Training. Please Note that Members must have completed the Red Dot course before enrolling in this Blue Dot course? This Course will be conducted in two Phases over two consecutive weeks (9am - 12pm) so you must be able to commit to both sessions before purchasing a ticket. Each Phase will be approximately a three hour duration. There will be a maximum of 3 persons for each Session. The Cost of this course (for both Phases) is $20.  If after booking, for some reason you cannot attend the training, please advise Michael Cahill on 0459062090 as soon as possible, so we can arrange another session for you.  If you cancel or are a “no show” on the day you will lose your $20 fee so please, only book if you can commit to the two consecutive weeks. Payments can be made online by secure credit card.  Once you have completed both phases of the Woodworking Machinery Induction your Membership Badge will be updated to replace the Red Dot with a Blue Dot.  This will reflect that you have completed all the necessary Woodworking Training and are ready to undertake any Woodworking projects in the Shed. 

Hello Cooking Class Sheddies Our next cooking class falls on St. Patrick's day. What better excuse for some Irish food and a drop of Guiness if you wish. I hope you will join me for the next class on Tuesday 17 March at 9am. We will eat what we cook and lunch will be at about 12.30pm. We will have a guest cook Chris Black (who has strong Irish roots) who will help us make pork steak with an apple cider and mustard sauce. This will be served with creamy mashed potatoes (of course) and vegetables.  I will introduce the dessert which will be spiced apple cake with lashings of warm custard.  So, as you see, apples are the ingredient of the day ! A fixed cost of $25 per person will apply to each class to cover ingredients. Beer and wine will be available for purchase on the day. Please purchase your ticket in advance. As always, I look forward to seeing you on the day. All the best Michael Henderson