AN injection of funds will allow Mens Sheds across Victoria to increase programs that "actively engage men in their local communities", says the Victorian Mens Shed Association (VMSA) president Paul Sladdin.

Men's Sheds around the state will share in a total of $700,000 in funding from the Victorian Government for refurbishment grants, Minister for Community Services Mary Wooldridge announced last week.

Grants of up to $30,000 per shed were made available to incorporated not-for-profit organisations and local government authorities that auspiced existing Mens Sheds.

Grant recipients were required to provide funding or in-kind support towards the project, taking the total value of the refurbishments to $1.2 million.

The grants, under the new Strengthening Mens Sheds Program, will allow for the redevelopment of 36 existing sheds to meet increased community demand for activities and occupational health and safety, and disability guidelines.

Examples of successful initiatives funded under the latest round include:

including dust extraction as well as electrical, plumbing and structural projects.

The Mens Shed movement has come a long way over the past five years, with more than 200 sheds operating across Victoria, Ms Wooldridge said.

The government recognises the significant role Mens Sheds play in their local communities through engaging a wide range of men, including those with disability, farmers, war veterans, retirees and the unemployed.

"They give local men the chance to meet and talk, work on valuable community projects, get involved in their community and learn about important health and wellbeing issues.

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Review: John Shuttleworth, Out Of Our Sheds, Pocklington Arts Centre

9:33am Friday 1st February 2013 in Comedy By Charles Hutchinson

ON the snowiest night of the winter, it was not the time to be out in our sheds.

Instead, John Shuttleworth was warming up an ironic term, given the weather for a tour that will bring him to the Grand Opera House in York on March 6.

Last Fridays show was a loosening exercise for Sheffield actor and songwriter Graham Fellows long-running comic creation, the former sweet factory security guard turned clubland one-man band who mistakes platitudes for profundity and finds endless fascination in the mundane.

Removing a shard of mint from his mouth, Shuttleworth set about setting his world to rights as he pontificated on the dilemmas and perplexities of everyday life for an antediluvian man in a car coat and cream slacks.

Like America, Shuttleworth himself is an irony-free zone, although that is part of Fellowss joke. Shuttleworth is so serious that he is funny, especially when rallying the audience to sing along with his cheery songs on his misbehaving bells-and-whistles organ.

Ostensibly, Out Of Our Sheds is a forum for Shuttleworth to contemplate which is better, city life or country living, supermarket or village shop? Or should you just sit in your shed and count the cobwebs? Or so the brochure said.

In reality, the two sets were dominated by delightfully daft if disconnected songs, such as a pastiche of Nirvanas Smells Like Teen Spirit, and the patter in between was surprisingly diffident, unfocused and in need of more rapport with the somewhat quiet full house.

There have been better, funnier Shuttleworth shows and there will be again, probably in York next month, by which time the material will be match-fit.

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Springtime is around the corner as Sheds Unlimited announces a chicken coop sale for the month of February. All wood chicken coops, chicken coop sheds and portable chicken coops will be discounted 5% during this winter month.

Newark, NJ (PRWEB) January 31, 2013

The Amish-made chicken coops from Sheds Unlimited come in many styles and shapes. Lean-to chicken coops offer a more traditional look for the backyard and are easy for shipping. One can add wheels to make the chicken pens and runs truly portable. The A-frame wood chicken coops begin with the simple Mini Chicken Coop and go on up to a larger coop for 25 - 30 hens. There is also a barn chicken coop and a chicken coop with a run that will make your backyard coop a beautiful part of the property.

The backyard chicken hutches and runs offer a cozy place for the chickens to spend their time year round, says a manager in the family owned and operated corporation. With a glassboard floor for easy cleaning and a Tech-Shield Sheathing to deflect the hot summer sun, every chicken coop shed from this Amish-Mennonite owned company will keep your chickens happy during the hottest days of the year.

In 2012, Sheds Unlimited built its own online chicken coop store where customers can go to find many styles of wood chicken coops and backyard chicken hutches. There one can find a list of already discounted chicken coops which, during the month of February will be discounted even further. Any of the chicken coop sheds can all be customized for duck coops, rabbit hutches or other small animals. To take the discount, customers simply visit the store and order their custom chicken coop. Then on checkout simply share the Sheds Unlimited website with your friends on Facebook, Twitter or Google+ and a 5% discount will be applied.

Sheds Unlimited INC is a family owned and operated corporation which has been in the business of producing backyard storage sheds and prefab car garages for close to two and a half decades. Their new addition of chicken coops and runs to their line of products aims as serving the entire backyard structure needs of their customers. The chicken coop sale in February 2013 is just one step to allow more folks to enjoy the beauty of a Sheds Unlimited structure while also enjoying the freshly laid eggs from day to day!

Stephen J Stoltzfus Jr. Sheds Unlimited INC 717-442-9055 Email Information

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Firefighters work at the scene where storage collapsed units in Roy, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013.

Ravell Call, Deseret News

ROY Snow and ice caused several storage sheds to collapse here Thursday, causing heavy damage to antique cars, recreational vehicles, a trailer and at least one boat.

Residents near the storage shed facility, 2775 W. 5500 South, heard the collapse just before 8:30 a.m. and called 911. The roofs on six units completely collapsed and two others suffered partial collapses.

Roy Deputy Fire Chief Jeff Comeau said the Urban Search and Rescue team was called to search each unit individually to see if anything was in the sheds. No one was trapped inside.

The sheds, each measuring about 12 feet wide, 30 feet long and 14 feet tall, are more than 20 years old, Comeau said.

"I think it was just a combination of them being an older construction as well as there was some ice buildup on them as well as snow. They were all wood construction, wood truss, wood walls," he said.

There was risk Wednesday afternoon of additional sheds collapsing. Comeau said all of the sheds had been fenced off, however, and owners were not allowed inside to get their possessions out. Contractors would have to secure the sheds before anyone from the public would be allowed inside, he said.

Carol Wiggins owns two of the storage sheds that collapsed. She said most of the tenants had "cars and trucks, and we have a camp trailer in there."

"I guess it's just stuff. It'll all work out," she said.

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SHEFFIELDS finest comedy synthesiser player and twaddle-talker is heading for Liverpool.

John Shuttleworth brings his new touring show, Out of Our Sheds, to the Playhouse on February 2.

His previous visits to the city have included dates at the Everyman with his sold out shows A Man With No More Rolls, Beyond Our Kennel and The Minor Tour.

This time he ventures beyond the garden gate to tread the mean streets of Britain. Which is better: city life or country living? Supermarket or village shop? Or is it better to sit in your shed and count the cobwebs?

It is, in fact, part of what is described as a totally misguided (but utterly hilarious) crusade to persuade villagers throughout the UK to give up their primitive rural existence, and head back to the cities, just as they did in the mass exodus during the Industrial Revolution of the 18th century.

Expect his persuasive patter to be accompanied by music from his trusty portable synthesiser.

The softly-spoken Shuttleworth is a fully-formed figment of comedian, actor and writer Graham Fellows fertile imagination, with the character first making his appearance back in 1986.

Graham, meanwhile, has an association with the Everyman and Playhouse going back more than 30 years to when he performed in the Lennon show at the Everyman in the months after the former Beatles murder.

But he first came to prominence as Jilted John who had a 1978 hit of the same name, famous for its line Gordon is a moron and which reached number four in the charts.

In addition to John Shuttleworth, the comedian has also created two more characters Brian Appleton and Dave Tordoff.

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