Repair Café's donation to Hungerford Rotary

What is a Repair Café?

Toaster stopped toasting? Holes in your worn-out pockets? Table lamps leaving you in darkness?
According to the International Repair Café foundation, “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”.
The next time you are thinking that something needs to be replaced, think about how you can make your stuff last a bit longer, save the money in your (mended) pocket and reduce the amount of waste you are putting into landfill.
Toasters, worn clothing and table lamps are among the most common problems that are brought to us at Hungerford Repair Café. Our volunteers, pictured here, give their time and experience freely to help everyone who comes to one of our events to give new life to something worn out or broken. Last Saturday we helped repair 3 toasters, mended a few pockets and a lamp, not to mention a toy robot, an electric hole punch and a hedge trimmer. The gentleman who brought in the toy robot said “Brilliant fix of [my] daughter’s toy. Fantastic service and so good for environment and community”. In two and a half hours, we helped fix around 22 items and gave advice on how to fix another 9 items. But importantly, we met some new people, shared our skills with the community and helped keep some things out of landfill.
Why don’t you come along and see for yourself? Our next Repair Café morning is on Saturday September 16^th at the Croft Hall in Hungerford from 10:00 am to 12:30 pm. Drop in for a cuppa and cake and a friendly chat about repairing your stuff.
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.

                                           The Repair Cafe’s donations to Rotary Charities.
The Hungerford Repair Cafe recently donated £100.00 to Hungerford Rotary Club for their support.
Rotary Club President Llyn Robins was delighted to receive the donation for their charity fund which will be used to help local worthy causes. Mike Gilbert who organises the Repair Cafe said that Hungerford Rotary have been one of their main supporters from the the very first event and a number of Rotarians are regular helpers  on Repair cafe days These include Robin Dudney, Bruce Mayhew, Graeme Sleeman and Norman Sinclair- Baines.