Repair Café News

All the Repair Cafés listed are GOLD members of HGN

Saturday 1st August

Leominster Repair Café – 10.00am – 12.00pm

This session is now closed for booking items in. If you have items for sharpening, you do not need to book – just turn up. For more details visit their website.

Marden Repair Café – 10.00am – 1.00pm.

Booking for the August session is closed. Find out more and book an item in for the September Repair Café by clicking here. Marden are looking for volunteers to help with repairs and in the café: more details on their website.

Golden Valley Repair Café – 10:00am – 12:30pm

Repairs of small electrical appliances, bicycles, clothing (repairs not alterations), small wooden items, soft toys, knife and small tool sharpening (for sharpening, £2 minimum donation per item), etc.

Booking advisable: You can BOOK online by following this link, or e-mail info@gvrepaircafe.org.uk or call 07776 511501 and leave a message. This session will be at Ewyas Harold Village Hall.

Café open to everyone serving tea/ coffee and home made cakes.

Ledbury Repair Café – 10.00am – 12.30pm.

Go to Booking Page for details including venue and what they can and cannot repair.

Archenfield Repair Café 2.00pm – 4.00pm

Archenfield Repair Café is normally on the second Saturday of each month however they take a break in August so their next session will be 12th September. Homemade cakes and hot and cold drinks available. They have repairers for IT, electronics, textiles, furniture and much more.

More details on their Facebook page

Saturday 15th August

Malvern Hills Repair Café 10:00am – 1:00pm

Part of Transition Malvern Hills (a GOLD member of HGN) the next session of Malvern Hills Repair Café will be at Malvern Cube, Albert Rd N, Great Malvern, Malvern WR14 2YF. There’s no booking system – just turn up on the day.

Click here for more information

Saturday 29th August

Hereford City Repair Café – 10.00am – 12 noon.

Hereford City Repair Café’s next session is on the last Saturday in August. They are at Holy Trinity Church, Whitecross Road. You can book your items in or just walk in on the day.

Everyone is welcome to come along.

South Hereford Repair Café – 10.00am – 12.30pm

South Hereford Repair Café (a GOLD member of HGN) sessions are normally on the third Saturday of each month. They take a break in August so the next session is 19th September. Click here to find out more and to book in an item for their September Repair Café.

Promoting Your Group at a Repair Café

You can use repair cafés to disseminate information about your group’s activities. While visitors – many of whom attending a repair café have green credentials – wait for their repairs, they are a captive audience and would welcome a chance to browse promotional leaflets from ‘green’ and environmental organisations and groups around the county.

Trash Nothing and Freecycle

If you have an item that is non-repairable try offering it on one of the re-use websites Trash Nothing or Freecycle for spares or repair. There may be someone out there who needs that widget that is still working on your non-working gizmo in order to get their gizmo up and running again.

Trash Nothing on BBC Sounds

In North Oxford, producer Polly Weston is told to visit a salon which has become the centre of the community, and discovers somewhere which does much more than cut hair. A place where nothing goes to waste. Click here to listen to this episode of The Patch