Community & Business
11 September, 2025
Now cooking with gas!
A NEW $100,000 kitchen at the Yungaburra Men’s Shed has officially opened for use and will help support its members’ nutrition plans and be available for community groups to use.
“The licence has been finally given to us and we are good to go,” Men’s Shed president Jeff Hall said.
“We’re really excited about the next steps and making it widely known in the community that this facility exists, so that other organisations can use it.
“People can use it for fundraising, making food to sell at the markets, and a number of other things.
“We will also be using it because we have a nutrition program where we cook and eat together once a month and talk about food and recipes.
“A lot of men, as they get older or find themselves on their own, are probably not as good cooks as they could be. So we’re looking forward to getting into it.”
The project was made possible through a $100,000 grant which the group secured about this time last year and the project has been a collective effort of all the Men’s Shed members.
“We’ve done it ourselves. One of our members is a licenced builder, he happens to be 90 years old,” Mr Hall said.
“He’s sort of been overseeing and driving the project. One of our other members is also a retired architect, so he’s been involved in the design phase of it all.
“Another guy is a chippy, who’s semi-retired. He should retire, but he keeps going,” he laughed.
“So, it’s all come together and we’ve all had a hand in painting and doing things. It’s been a good experience for all of us to work together like that.
“We’d like to take on more things around the community with our new-found confidence in what we can do.”
