This week, 27 August at the shed…

Rosemary Nourse from WellElder Counselling Centre for Older People, gave a presentation to the group on what services they provide both here in Wellington city and in Kapiti.
Below is a useful snapshot of what WellElder is all about.
Counselling
WellElder believes that we all face challenges as we age. We are never too old to learn new skills, change behaviour, or grow in insight and understanding to maintain good emotional health.

Older people are used to getting on with life themselves, but a skilled professional is surprisingly easy to talk to and can help us to:

* move through depression
* reduce anxiety and/or stress
* make our own decisions about issues we are finding challenging
* improve our relationships
* develop our sense of well being
* come to terms with events and decisions in our lives.

No issue is too big or too small – our relationships, the loss of friends and family, where we live, memories that we live with, coping with the daily demands of life, anxiety or depression
– whatever it is that we face can be brought to counselling.
Sessions & Costs
Sessions last 50 – 60 minutes and clients are eligible for up to 6 sessions. Further sessions may be available if needed. We ask for a contribution of $10.00, or more, for each counselling session. If clients are unable or unwilling to meet this, our service is still available.

For more information:
Phone: 380 2440
Fax: 04 380 2449
Email: wellelder@slingshot.co.nz

After Rosemary's well received presentation the sheddies then started talking 'business' around the meeting agenda which included:

* Having 2 more 'sheddies' volunteer to be on the committee, so making up our committee are: Garry, Doug and Henry, who will be joined by Nigel and Norman.
* Documenting 'in house' rules.
* Financial report
* First Aid Kit - Newtown Union Health have been approached and are happy to put one together for the shed! Thanks to NUH.
* Bunnings have again approached us with another possible project, where Menz Shed may benefit financially to assist in covering some of our overheads. Bunnings have offered to supply the materials at cost and Menz Shed will make basic picnic tables or outdoor toy boxes to sell on.
* Tony has been assigned the task of drawing and measuring up for materials required to make planter boxes for our patch at the back of the shed.
* Garry has arranged with Bunnings the delivery of materials for us to begin building our much needed work benches, this will hopefully be delivered by Thursday.
* The committee met on Monday to discuss and draft the 'General Rules' and membership.
* The cat playstations, were whacked up in no time last week and Bunnings have collected them for delivery to the Cats Protection League, thanks to Tony,


This Thursday 3rd September - We may have a visit from the Wellington City Mission Budgeting Team - to be confirmed. Otherwise it's all hands on deck!

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