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.
Sustainable Enniscorthy has been really thrilled by the positive response to the three repair cafés we have run to date and we are looking forward to running another in the autumn. Repair cafes are growing in momentum around the world. If you'd like to find out more about what's happening in other countries, sign up to the International Repair Cafe newsletter - see link to their website below. They are also on Facebook and Instagram.
https://www.repaircafe.org/en/
https://www.facebook.com/RepairCafeInternational/
https://www.instagram.com/repaircafefoundation/
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
Reminder of our upcoming repair cafe in just a fortnight! It's on 6th March in the Riverside Park Hotel - see the Upcoming Events section of the Sustainable Enniscorthy website for info.
Please register on Eventbrite if you plan to come - it helps us to plan with our volunteer repairers. Thanks!
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
Wish to volunteer. Woodworking skills including repair and restoration
Hi Gerard, thanks for offering to volunteer as a repairer, much appreciated. Could you please send your contact details to [email protected] so that we can add you to the repairer email group for comms re the upcoming event 6th March. Thank you
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!
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