"I started coming along and thinking, 'oh, well, it's only going to  keep me from doing what I want to do', but then I found out that the comradrie and going on trips and talking and doing things together, it's a real thing that pulls you in," Mr Blatch said. 

Mr Blatch has been a part of the Wellington Men's Shed branch since it's inception, where he was a member of the original committee. 

That group also included Bill Redfern, who notes that while both men have excellent sheds at home for completing the kind of projects the Men's Shed excels at, 'there aren't any other blokes to talk to'.​

"The jokes and the talking and the trips out are all wonderful," Mr Blatch said. 

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But the benefits aren't just limited to expanding your social circle or developing new skills.

 As many of the members of the Men's Shed know all too well, the tight-knit group have also been able to look out for one another's health as well. 

"One bloke, who's not with us anymore, he came in and said his wife was testing him and his kids were going crook because he was having a little bit of prostate problems," Mr Blatch said. 

"He went to the doctors and he found out he had cancer and got treatment, and they told him if he'd left it six months, it'd have been too late."

"Things like that, you wouldn't talk about at home, you only talk about those sorts of things with other men."

In addition to helping one another out, the Men's Shed have also been a regular fixture in community events, and helping out around town. 

Tons of items have come through the Men's Shed to be fixed or re-used, and between the wood-working, metal-working and other shops the Men's Shed runs from it's property on Gobolion street, there's always someone with the know-how to get the job done. 

"There's not many things we can't achieve here," Mr Redfern said. 

"All our blokes with our age and the knowledge we've got between us, it's just unreal what we can sort out."

"The town really appreciate it," Mr Blatch said.

According to former chairman Garry Hayes, there's still plenty of room for the Shed to grow, with it already having expanded to double the size, going from around 34 members at the start to 75 at present. 

"In the last census, there were about a thousand men over sixty years of age in Wellington, so we figure that this year we could climb up over a hundred members," Mr Hayes said. 

"It's there for all sorts of men, they can do work if they want to, if they don't want to they can just come, have a cup of tea and talk or just attend the bus trips."