Sustainable Enniscorthy Repair

We throw away vast amounts of stuff - stuff which could get a new lease of life after a simple repair. Lots of people have forgotten that they can repair things themselves or they no longer know how. Repair Cafés are free meeting places where people come together to repair things together. In a local Repair Café, you’ll find tools and materials to help you make any repairs you need on clothes, furniture, electrical appliances, bicycles, crockery, appliances, toys, etc. You'll also find expert volunteers, with repair skills in all kinds of fields. Visitors bring their broken items from home and in the Repair Café, they start making their repairs with the specialists. It’s an ongoing learning process.

Repair Cafés help people in the community whose skills may not always be valued to get involved again. It helps neighbours from different backgrounds connect with each other and allows valuable practical knowledge to be shared. Repairing things at a Repair Cafe means things are being used for longer and don’t have to be thrown away. This reduces the volume of raw materials and energy needed to make new products.

Terry Ellis iscritto Sustainable Enniscorthy Repair una Repair Café gruppo 4 mesi fa

F McCoole

4 mesi fa

On LinkedIn, the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications' latest newsletter focuses on repair in a circular economy - check it out!

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/repair-circular-economy-department-of-the-environment-clim-xrfce/?midToken=AQGHqXIt9Y2ukA&midSig=1a6wDsk7oNHb81&trk=eml-email_series_follow_newsletter_01-newsletter_content_preview-0-headline_&trkEmail=eml-email_series_follow_newsletter_01-newsletter_content_preview-0-headline_-null-33yb0b~lt72xq9r~ff-null-null&eid=33yb0b-lt72xq9r-ff&otpToken=MTMwZDE2ZTAxMTI5YzBjMGIzMjQwNGVkNDYxN2U1YjQ4ZGNkZDM0NTlhYWE4ODYxNzljNjA5NmI0ZjVhNThmYmY0ZGNkZmE3NzBmOWZkZmE1N2FjZTBjZDZkOWRmZmI3NThiZjljZDAwODFmZTUxMGJmZTc0MiwxLDE%3D

Mitch Kenny iscritto Sustainable Enniscorthy Repair una Repair Café gruppo 4 mesi fa

Dawn Morley iscritto Sustainable Enniscorthy Repair una Repair Café gruppo 4 mesi fa

Claire Flanagan iscritto Sustainable Enniscorthy Repair una Repair Café gruppo 4 mesi fa

F McCoole

5 mesi fa

Interested in improving your sewing skills this Spring? Learning the basics on how to use your sewing machine? Sustainable Enniscorthy is supporting two new sewing skills workshops which are being run by the Seamless Seamstress this February at Templeshannon Community & Childcare Centre.

'Know your Machine'
'Basic Alterations'

For more information, including dates and how to register see:
https://www.sustainableenniscorthy.com

Josephine Whitmore iscritto Sustainable Enniscorthy Repair una Repair Café gruppo 5 mesi fa

Gerard Foran

6 mesi fa

Wish to volunteer. Woodworking skills including repair and restoration

Gerard Foran iscritto Sustainable Enniscorthy Repair una Repair Café gruppo 6 mesi fa

Carol Keegan iscritto Sustainable Enniscorthy Repair una Repair Café gruppo 6 mesi fa

Sean Fogarty iscritto Sustainable Enniscorthy Repair una Repair Café gruppo 7 mesi fa

F McCoole

7 mesi fa

Sustainable Enniscorthy's second repair café was held last Saturday in Templeshannon Community & Childcare Centre and we had a great turn out with about 30 items brought for repair - from clocks to clothing and various different electrical items such as vacuum cleaners, a DVD player, garden strimmer, radios and heaters.

A massive thanks to our volunteer repairers - we couldn't do this without you, so a big thank you Ray, Sean, Joan, Geraldine, Paul and Jack for your support. And to everyone that brought something to be repaired - avoiding waste and keeping products in the economy for longer - you are contributing to a circular economy!