News from the Repair Café
Sat, May 17th 2025 at 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
Another interesting day at the Repair Café
Where would you expect to find a snowman and a hobbit lamp sharing company with kettles, toasters, vacuum cleaners and garden shears? Answer: In a Repair Café of course! In this case, these were brought into Hungerford Repair Café last Saturday where we fixed or gave advice on 42 items brought in by the public. Only four items, representing 5 Kg of potential recycling were not repaired for a variety of reasons, but another 4 were taken home by the volunteer to be able to spend more time on the repair.
One of our visitors said: “I felt a very pleasant visit for my first to repair café. Thank you”. The owner of one of the items we could not rescue said: “Fantastic service. Thank you, volunteers. Worth a try”. Yet another visitor said “Thrilled that Graeme managed to get it working again. Great stuff”.
Some of the items repaired were quite heavy. For example we fixed a couple of broken legs on a 20 Kg gazebo, and the snowman weighing in at 7 Kg will hopefully be fitted with a new motor at our next Repair Café event. As a result, we have kept an estimated 136 Kg away from the recycling centre. Having lost 5 Kg to recycling, we think that is a good result for a morning spend in the company of skilled volunteers and grateful public.
Our next event will be held at the Croft Hall in Hungerford on July 19th 2025. For more information, you can find us on Facebook at Hungerford Repair Café.