Cheviot MenzShed Community Trust

Cheviot MenzShed Community Trust MenzShed Groups provide opportunities for local men to meet and participate in Community projects with the prime objective being Men's Health & Well being.

On most Saturdays MenzShed is working with the team of Vanuatuan RSE Workers from Scottfresh.This follows an initiative ...
20/09/2026

On most Saturdays MenzShed is working with the team of Vanuatuan RSE Workers from Scottfresh.
This follows an initiative of Scottfresh to give the team members skills they take back to their homes.

They’ve been working on several projects in our workshops and will soon be working on some of our Community projects.
This means they will leave behind a legacy of their contribution that will benefit our community.

This photo is some of the group who set the poles then cleaned up and mounted these vintage drills for a display outside MenzShed.

They are a great team of guys who are enjoying their time with us. And to make them feel at home, we even fly their Country’s flag on the days they’re with us.

We’re proud to be able to display these two vintage drills. They were donated for display by the late Bruce Abernethy a...
20/09/2026

We’re proud to be able to display these two vintage drills. They were donated for display by the late Bruce Abernethy and had been recovered from two local farms here in Cheviot. One was from Fay & Russell Beckett’s farm and the other we believe from Grant Burnett’s family farm.

Commonly known as Post Drills, they were usually mounted on poles or walls in Blacksmiths and farm workshops and were used from the mid 1800s to early 1900s.

They were hand cranked which spun a large flywheel and gear assembly. They operated at a slow speed of around 60 RPM which prevented overheating and protected large drill bits when cutting through steel.

Feel free to come and look at them. WARNING. There are moving parts so youngsters should be supervised.

MenzShed congratulates Cheviot Area School Head Boy Maxim Cave for creating this military display which will be availabl...
24/04/2026

MenzShed congratulates Cheviot Area School Head Boy Maxim Cave for creating this military display which will be available for viewing in the school gym at the ANZAC Service following the Cenotaph Service tomorrow. It's well worth taking a look.

TV ONE NEWS have been following us with this restoration and the story is scheduled to screen at 6pm tomorrow (Friday)
23/04/2026

TV ONE NEWS have been following us with this restoration and the story is scheduled to screen at 6pm tomorrow (Friday)

20/04/2026

Does anyone have a projector screen no longer in use. We need the screen fabric for a job at the museum.
Phone Simon 0279399688, or Bruce 0274555163.

The 2 new stainless steel panel memorials to our fallen soldiers have been installed on the Cenotaph and look great. All...
12/04/2026

The 2 new stainless steel panel memorials to our fallen soldiers have been installed on the Cenotaph and look great.
All the painting is complete and ready for ANZAC Day.
This will be a great event as Mayor Marie Black will officiate and students from Cheviot Area School will march in the parade to the Cenotaph. And, of course celebrating the 100 year old Cenotaph.
TV1 has been following this project, even filming the etching process of the panels. This is likely to appear on 7 Sharp over the coming weeks. We’ll advise when as soon as we know.
This has been a fantastic and rewarding project and we’ve valued the support and encouragement we’ve had from the community.
Special thanks to the MenzShed team Simon Chester, David Tabor, & Mike Erkkila, Tradies Mike Botica, Mick Mauger, & Signtech.

Free pellets outside MenzShed. Help yourself.
27/03/2026

Free pellets outside MenzShed. Help yourself.

Free pellets at Cheviot MenzShed. Help yourself.
11/03/2026

Free pellets at Cheviot MenzShed. Help yourself.

GUESS WHAT!!!100 YEARS AGO our War Memorial Cenotaph was unveiled to the Cheviot Community in March 1926. The foundatio...
24/02/2026

GUESS WHAT!!!
100 YEARS AGO our War Memorial Cenotaph was unveiled to the Cheviot Community in March 1926. The foundation was laid in 1920 taking 6 years to complete.
This makes the restoration project much more significant.

MenzShed is extremely grateful for the support of 2 local tradies – Mike Bottica (Painting) & Mick Mauger (Stone Mason) for their expertise in the restoration. Mick is repairing some of the eroded areas on the cenotaph and repairs to cracks in the concrete wall around the reserve.

The MenzShed Team have scraped away all the lose flaky paint ready for Mike to paint once the repairs are complete.

The 2 stainless panels which will replace the existing memorials, are in production. So, it’s with great excitement and cause to celebrate that the cenotaph, concrete wall & rails around the reserve, and the McKenzie monument will be looking splended for ANZAC Day. “Lest we forget”.

There’s activity around the cenotaph. MenzShed in conjunction with our local ANZAC committee has raised funds through Ch...
07/02/2026

There’s activity around the cenotaph.
MenzShed in conjunction with our local ANZAC committee has raised funds through Cheviot Community Committee and Domett Reserves Board to remove all the flakey paint ready for a refresh.
With the help of paint tradie Mike Botica who is donating his time, a special coating will be applied which will last much longer.
The surface is sandstone mortar and is breaking down. So much so that the names are being eroded away.
These are being replaced with two stainless steel remembrance panels at a cost of $5,500.00.
This will future proof the names of the Cheviot area servicemen who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country.
Hopefully there will be sufficient funds to clean up and refresh the McKenzie monument and the concrete wall around the reserve at the same time.
All in time for ANZAC Day 2026.

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5 Seddon Street
Cheviot

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