Chiswick Repair Café Returns this Saturday
Bring items to fix to Christ Church on Turnham Green
The second ever Chiswick Repair Café is taking place this Saturday (19 November) at Christ Church Turnham Green from 10.30am to 1pm.
The first event has been hailed as a big success with over 30 items brought in most of which were fixed. Over 20 volunteers with repair expertise participated in repairing, teaching skills and advising people on how to mend their items.
It’s a voluntary initiative to reduce waste, share repair skills and enhance the local community. People bring broken or worn items to the Repair Café and the volunteers help them to mend it, or advise what else can be done.
Visitors pay for the parts and are asked to make a donation to the Repair Café running costs.
The offering will generally include:
• Small electrical /electronic repairs
• Carpentry repairs (e.g. gluing chairs)
• Toy repairs
• Computers & laptops (not mobile phones)
• Knife & tool sharpening
• Sewing repairs: mending /darning
• Small bike repairs
The first ever Chiswick Repair Café took place on International Repair Day, on Saturday 15 October.
The venture was started by Charlotte, Jill, Kate and Marie-Claire, a group of local residents who are involved with various green initiatives around Chiswick and are part of the Hounslow Environmental Champions programme.
There is no event in December so this is the last chance this year to bring in your items. The following repair cafe will be held on Saturday 21 January 2023.
For further information contact: Chiswickrepaircafe@gmail.com.
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November 12, 2022