What do you do with a broken toaster? Or with a bike when the wheel runs out of true? Or with a jumper full of moth holes?
Bin it? No way!
Wellingborough Eco Group is organising a Repair Café on Saturday the 8th October 2022, at ECO HUB at Glamis Hall for All!
On Saturday 8th of October everything centres on making repairs! Starting from 9am and ending at 12 noon in ECO HUB at Glamis Hall, Goldsmith Rd, Wellingborough, NN8 3RU, various volunteer repair experts will be available to help repair your broken items, free of charge. Tools and materials will also be on hand.
People visiting the Repair Café can bring along their broken items from home. Toasters, lamps, hair dryers, clothes, bikes, toys, any portable item that is broken is welcome, apart from microwaves and CRT devices such as old style televisions, and we will do our best to fix it. We will operate a booking system, so you will be given a time slot to avoid waiting too long. Book your time slot now on our Repair Café page!
“By promoting repairs, Wellingborough Eco Group wants to help reduce mountains of waste. This is absolutely necessary! We throw away piles of stuff in the UK, even things which have practically nothing wrong with them, and which could easily be used again after a simple repair. Unfortunately, many people have forgotten that they can have things repaired. Our Repair Café wants to change all that.”
Judy Sumner
Our Repair Café is also meant to put neighbours in touch with each other in a new way, to discover that a lot of know-how and practical skills can be found close to home. If you repair a bike, a hair dryer or a pair of trousers, together with a previously unfamiliar neighbour, you look at that person in a different light the next time you run into them on the street. Jointly making repairs can lead to making new friends in the neighbourhood.
Wellingborough Eco Group points out that repairs can save money and resources, and can help minimise CO2 emissions. But above all, our Repair Café just wants to show how much fun repairing things can be, and how easy it often is.
Repair Café International Foundation
The Repair Café concept arose in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 2009, and was formulated by Martine Postma, at the time a journalist/publicist. In 2010, she started the Repair Café International Foundation (see Repaircafe.org/en). This foundation provides professional support to local groups around the world wishing to start their own Repair Café. Yes we already held a Repair Café in Wellingborough, but we have now joined the Repair Café International Foundation and are running our Café according to their guidelines.
Wellingborough Eco Group is organising a Repair Café from Saturday the 8th October 2022 on a regular basis at ECO HUB, Glamis Hall for All, on the second Saturday of the month 9am-12noon.