News from the Repair Café

Hungerford Repair Café  very popular with local residents

Residents of Hungerford and surrounding villages really appreciate the help they get from volunteers at Hungerford’s Repair Café. Last Saturday morning the Croft Hall was teeming with visitors from 10:00 am until closing time at 12:30 pm. Our first Repair Café was held in July 2021, and apart for a few breaks during the pandemic, we have been running the event, usually on the third Saturday of every other month since then. One volunteer said: “We are not specialist repairers, we are ordinary folk who will have a go at mending something that is broken”.

On Saturday, visitors and volunteers mended a total of 44 items, and made plans to fix another 10. These ranged from a stuck CD player to a teddy bear that no longer played a tune when squeezed. Overall we saved about 110 Kg of potential landfill. The purpose of the Repair Café is twofold: we want to reduce the amount of stuff that is thrown into landfill, and we also want to help people understand how to mend their own things. This way we can hope for a more sustainable future. One visitor commented: “I’ve been inspired”.

If you want to volunteer, or to know more about what we do, visit us at: https://www.repaircafe.org/en/cafe/hungerford-repair-cafe/ where you will find dates and contact details.