Longreach Mensshed Inc

25/04/2026

Lest We Forget

22/04/2026

🎨🍷 Tree of Knowledge Festival | Paint & Sip 🍷🎨

Come celebrate the outback with a fun and creative afternoon in Barcaldine. 🌾✨

Join usfor a step-by-step Paint & Sip experience filled with music 🎶, games 🎉, prizes 🎁, and plenty of laughs 😄

No skill or experience needed, just bring your favourite drinks and nibbles 🧀🍇 and enjoy a relaxed afternoon creating your own artwork. 🖌️🎨

📍 Ken Wilson WESTECH Pavilion, Barcaldine Showgrounds
📅 Sunday 3 May 2026
⏰ 12pm to 3pm
💲 $75 per person
🔞 18+ adults only

Gather your friends and book your spot early. 💕

Register https://www.iamemmaread.com.au/events/tok-festival-paint-sip-2026

18/04/2026

The sun is shining, coffee is brewing, and breakfast is cooking at Wellshot Hotel ! ☀️☕🍳

13/04/2026

FREE GRANT WRITING WORKSHOP | LONGREACH
About the facilitator | Nicole Hopgood Hopgood Marketing

We are thrilled to have Nicole flying into Longreach. With over 20 years’ experience working across high-stakes written applications, including government tenders, capability statements, award submissions, and complex funding proposals.

She brings a strong understanding of how decision-makers assess applications, with a clear focus on structure, clarity, and stakeholder alignment. Participants gain practical insights into what funders are really looking for and how to clearly articulate their value, impact, and readiness.

Alongside her writing expertise, she is an experienced workshop facilitator, having delivered training as a media trainer and communications specialist. Her facilitation style is practical, supportive, and grounded in real-world examples.

With strong rural connections and time spent in Western Queensland, including on a station near Longreach, she brings a genuine understanding of regional communities and a commitment to helping local people access funding opportunities with confidence.

JOIN US
SAT 18 April
The Birdcage Hotel | 9am
Light refreshments provided

Registrations
https://www.iamemmaread.com.au/events/grant-writing-workshop

Thanks to: Digital Exchange | Miniritchi Gallery | The Longreach Tavern | The Birdcage Hotel | Social Collective Events

07/04/2026

Get ready for the Mens Shed Markets in 2026!
Save the Dates!
See you at the Wellshot Hotel! 🗓️

03/04/2026

01/04/2026

They certainly made their presence noticeable

A fun caricature that sums up the Shedders and Dinner at the 11th National Men's Shed Conference, we might have been a small delegation, we certainly made sure that everyone new about the great work we are all doing in the west. Australian Men's Shed Association Men’s Sheds of WA Toodyay Men's Shed

30/03/2026

Congratulations to 2026 Mensshed conference awards winners

07/03/2026

Happy International Women's Day

07/03/2026

Unpacking and assembling the table to hold our new drum sander

28/02/2026

Perrina picking up the model 50 mm machine gun to mount on her late husband’s army jeep for ANZAC day parades. Norm used his Railway model building skills to fabricate this replica.

28/02/2026

Vanessa Dawson one of our wood turning Mensshed members very kindly donated a A 3 capable laminator with pouches and a portable hard drive to help bring our digital capability up a notch. Many thanks Vanessa.