Boo,
Try this
https://mensshed.org/.
The original aim was to get single old men out of their houses where they were slowly deteriorating into the grave.
Theory behind it is women talk face to face, usually over a coffee & vino and will discuss every tiny little health problem they have or think they have.
Blokes won't do this but they will talk quite freely side by side and more so if they are doing something.
I noticed this years ago when I was an active RROC ( rolls Royce Owners Club ) member.
The "paupers" section used to meet at a well equipted members garage were we worked on other members cars, usually a major job and you booked your car in so they were done in a logical mannar to reinforce what you had done previously , thus the "knowledge" was being handed down but the revelations about personal problems was astounding.
Aussie males have this "stoic braveness" where we suffer in silence till we die from treatable problems and as for mental health we had the worst senior male suicide rate in the western world.
originally they concentrated on wood working as there is something instringically satisifing in turning a lump of lumber into something.
After a long while the government realised this was a winner and put some funds into it then gave it tax free charity status so if I had some obsolete equipment in my factory I could donate it at full retail value to the Shed & get a nice tax deduction for it.
When Lowers & Woolworths attempted to leap into the hardwear business and become the dominant player overnight ( Westfarmers control 85% of the retail & wholesale hardwear sales in OZ which is why good tools cost 3 times here what they do there.The company ( Masters) which went broke in less than 18 months used to donate all the returned good to their local shed and the boys here always had 6 months worth of stuff to fix.
