Tech Shed Connection has grown into its current organisation from its founding as a research project into Ageing Men’s Mental Health. That project was started as an initiative of City of Canada Bay Libraries with funding from NSW Dept of Family & Community Services, Liveable Communities Grant Scheme. The objective of the project was to establish if there was a demand for a technologically focussed Men’s Shed from a cohort to whom the more traditional craft-based Men’s Sheds might not appeal. The project started under the name of Men’s Tech Shed in July 2017. In April 2018, the attendees of the last project meeting decided that becoming
a satellite of Harry’s Shed (City of Canada Bay Men’s Shed) would provide the necessary insurance and administrative support that Men’s Tech Shed needed to continue as a group.