A Repair Café is a meeting place that you can go to get broken items fixed. You will be able to sit down with a skilled volunteer as they carry out the repairs. By doing this, you can pick up valuable, life long skills which will mean less items being discarded as ‘unfixable’. In all of our Repair Cafés, you will find tools and materials to do any repairs needed.
We invite you to bring in your broken items for Repair. Repair Cafés offer a mixture in types of repairs they can do ranging from textiles, knife sharpening and electrical goods. We cannot guarantee that we are able to repair everything brought into the Café, but we will definitely give it a try.
Our Repair Cafes
Each of our Repair Cafés are usually held once per month in a Church Hall or local Community Center. To find out where your nearest Repair Café is located and the dates here.
To get a better idea of what we do at our Repair Cafés, see the video below.
Vacancies
Join the Repair Cafés
We are always looking for volunteer repairers, organisers and helper in all of our Repair Cafés. The items that need repairing are:
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Clothes
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Small electrical items
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Furniture
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Bric-a-Brac
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Electronics
If you are interested in helping out, then why not get in touch with your nearest Repair Cafe? Find your nearest Repair Cafe here
Our Initiatives
Furniture Recycling Project based in Cheltenham.
Community hub, plant-based cafe & loose food refillery based in Charlton Kings.
Repair Cafe Network across Gloucestershire helping people repair clothes, small electricals and tools.
Community climate action projects across Cheltenham and fundraising to create a flagship Eco Hub.
Community growing project in Sandford Park, Cheltenham. One of 100 UK Nature Hubs 2024.
Net Zero Partnership of 178 local organisations run by Vision 21 for Cheltenham Borough Council from 2021-24
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