A monthly Repair Café is launching today (Saturday) following a successful trial run in late July.
Hosted in the Quay Arts conference room, the Repair Café will offer people the chance to bring broken items for repair that might otherwise end up on the scrap heap.
As part of the Repair Café ethos customers will have the chance to learn how to do their own repairs – and even get involved in the repair itself!
This month (September) the Repair Café has a number of new textile repairers – so if you have an item of clothing that needs a quick mend and you want to learn how to do this – book a textile repair slot and bring it along!
The impetus for the Repair Café project came from West Wight resident Fern Presant - who sought the help of Planet Aware to get the project up and running.
A meeting in Newport 18 months ago was full of people keen to be involved, but unfortunately, the project had to be halted because of the pandemic.
Nevertheless, a committed band of volunteers from across the Island met regularly on Zoom to keep the project alive and finally launched a trial run in late July. With the help of a small team of repairers, nine items were repaired, enabling them to stay in use for longer.
Fern said:
“This is such a wonderful project, not only is it great to see things repaired, it is an opportunity for people to learn new skills and connect with others in the local community.”
Now the Repair Café is opening its doors to the public and will run monthly until at least the end of 2021 at Quay Arts.
Repair slots can be booked online at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/
It takes place today from 10am until 1pm.
To keep in touch with the Repair Café, ask about volunteering or if you want to start a Repair Café locally, please sign up to the Repair Café Isle of Wight mailing list: http://eepurl.com/hk7adv
Repair Café Isle of Wight is supported by Sovereign Housing and Planet Aware.
For more information about Repair Cafés and about Repair Café Isle of Wight visit: https://planetaware.co.uk/
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