{"id":191563,"date":"2023-11-02T15:08:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T19:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=191563"},"modified":"2023-11-02T15:08:54","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T19:08:54","slug":"mens-shed-association-of-bc-looking-to-expand-to-nelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/mens-shed-association-of-bc-looking-to-expand-to-nelson\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s Shed Association of BC looking to expand to Nelson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nelson is one of the communities targeted by the outreach program of the <a href=\"https:\/\/bcmensshed.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Men\u2019s Shed Association of BC<\/a> (MSABC) for a new location. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The organization, which was registered as a non-profit in 2017, is aiming to start up ten new sheds across the province. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MSABC reached out to Nelson through a Facebook post and received several replies from men interested in starting a shed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Funding for Men's Sheds is primarily done by members but there are <a href=\"https:\/\/bcmensshed.ca\/start-grants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">grants<\/a> available to help. In some instances, municipalities have contributed as well.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The most common practices at Men\u2019s Sheds are working with your hands and sharing and borrowing tools but a Men\u2019s Shed can be anything the members want it to be. The only requirement is there are at least two men meeting regularly to make a connection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s really all about men\u2019s health. It\u2019s a journey, a culture, an ethos,\" Mike Jennings, president of MSABC says. \"A Men\u2019s Shed is a place where men can belong.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are over 40 Men\u2019s Sheds in BC, including the Kootenay Lake East Shore Shed in Riondel. Members of the Kootenay Lake East Shore Shed will host a meeting in Nelson at the end of November to help start a Men\u2019s Shed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Jennings joined CJLY to discuss Men\u2019s Sheds, MSABC and their outreach program. Listen to the story below:<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nelson is one of the communities targeted by the outreach program of the Men\u2019s Shed Association of BC (MSABC) for a new location. The organization, which was registered as a non-profit in 2017, is aiming to start up ten new sheds across the province. MSABC reached out to Nelson through a Facebook post and received&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":191579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57],"tags":[32246,22614,32245,32244],"radio":[1420],"origine":[280,2165,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191563"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191658,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191563\/revisions\/191658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191563"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=191563"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=191563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}