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.
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.
Enniscorthy has officially held it's first Repair Café!! Thanks for the help and engagement from everyone today. We had lots of repairs and lots of positive feedback, not to mention a few cups of tea for good measure too!
More photos and a full count of the repairs to follow.
This little reindeer would like to be fixed before next Christmas! Bringing it to our repair cafe and fingers crossed it will be as good as new. A bit of superglue and magic dust required I reckon.
Here is a photo of our ottoman in our sitting room. It's upside down! The little wheels underneath keep coming off. I need to get a board nailed to the underside, visible here & then have the wheels screwed onto that. Much better idea. I hope the skilled Men's Shed carpenters can help at our Repair Café on Saturday! I'll let y'all know how I get on :)
Preparations for Enniscorthy's first Repair Café are moving along nicely and it was great to meet last week to move things along. Registering on the Eventbrite Page is recommended but we will be welcoming walk-ins on the day too!
Promotion for our first repair cafe on 17 June at the Presentation Arts Centre is now full steam ahead! For info and to register to attend, see the events link. This is a free community event, but by registering it helps us to plan - not only to find out what items people are planning to bring for repair, but also to register your interest in volunteering to be a repairer - all skills welcomed!
Jeffrey of Tog Hackerspace (@TOG_Dublin) very kindly met us online last night to talk through his experience of running repair cafes - very practical advice about insurance, planning for and running the event, PAT testing and more. Very grateful for his insights.