Repair Cafés
Repair Cafés are free meeting places and they’re all about repairing things (together). In the place where a Repair Café is located, you’ll find tools and materials to help you make any repairs you need.
What is a Repair Cafe?
This is a demo page which shows you some of the elements that could be included in each activity page.
You may notice that the green colour runs through this page? It’s the background colour for the header bar, the colour for the heading text on each section and the colour of the ward map in the background, as well as the call to action box at the bottom of the page? It’s also the same colour used for this activity on the homepage – I thought it might be nice to keep these colour schemes running through each activity on the website?
Repair Cafés are free meeting places and they’re all about repairing things (together). In the place where a Repair Café is located, you’ll find tools and materials to help you make any repairs you need. On clothes, furniture, electrical appliances, bicycles, crockery, appliances, toys, et cetera. You’ll also find expert volunteers, with repair skills in all kinds of fields.
Visitors bring their broken items from home. Together with the specialists they start making their repairs in the Repair Café. It’s an ongoing learning process. If you have nothing to repair, you can enjoy a cup of tea or coffee. Or you can lend a hand with someone else’s repair job. You can also get inspired at the reading table – by leafing through books on repairs and DIY.
There are over 1.500 Repair Cafés worldwide. Visit one in your area or start one yourself! See also the house rules we use at the Repair Café.
I went to a repair cafe to find out more and even though I’m not very good a fixing most things, I ended up helpig to fix one of the other fixers laptops whilst I was there!
Repair Cafes in Wolverhampton
We throw away vast amounts of stuff. Even things with almost nothing wrong, and which could get a new lease on life after a simple repair. The trouble is, lots of people have forgotten that they can repair things themselves or they no longer know how. Knowing how to make repairs is a skill quickly lost. Society doesn’t always show much appreciation for the people who still have this practical knowledge, and against their will they are often left standing on the sidelines. Their experience is never used, or hardly ever.
The Repair Café changes all that! People who might otherwise be sidelined are getting involved again. Valuable practical knowledge is getting passed on. Things are being used for longer and don’t have to be thrown away. This reduces the volume of raw materials and energy needed to make new products. It cuts CO2 emissions, for example, because manufacturing new products and recycling old ones causes CO2 to be released.
The Repair Café teaches people to see their possessions in a new light. And, once again, to appreciate their value. The Repair Café helps change people’s mindset. This is essential to kindle people’s enthusiasm for a sustainable society.
But most of all, the Repair Café just wants to show how much fun repairing things can be, and how easy it often is. Why don’t you give it a go?
Get involved at a Repair Cafe
Are you interested in holding your own Repair Cafe? Or maybe you’d like to volunteer as a fixer? If so, get in touch and we can point you in the right direction!
The number of Repair Cafes so far in Wolverhampton
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The amount of wards still to go.
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