If you’ve ever wondered what adding a circular saw to your children’s program would do to your risk assessments, Footprints Erina may have the answer!
Two years ago, Kids Zone, Erina Community Baptist’s weekly afterschool program, had to close due to a lack of volunteers. Lisa Hartley, Community Engagement Coordinator for Footprints Erina (the community outreach non-profit of Erina Community Baptist Church), and her team were looking for a way to still reach out to the kids in their local community. Asking herself “what do we have?” and “what can we work with?”, Lisa recognised that some kids only came to Kids Zone when they had “Shed Week”, a semi-regular excursion to the Men’s Shed on the premises.
And so, the Kids Shed program was born as a collaborative project with the Erina Community Men’s Shed.
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