News from the Repair Café

Hungerford Repair Café November 16^th 2024

 Hungerford Repair Café hosted its final event of 2024 at the Croft Hall last Saturday. It was a successful morning, welcoming 43 visitors seeking help with their broken items. It is inevitable with this many visitors that some may have to wait a little to have their item seen by a volunteer. But our café was busy all morning serving tea, coffee and cakes as waiting visitors chatted, sipped and watched repairs taking place around the hall.

 Of the 50 items brought in, 43 were successfully repaired, saving 67 kg of waste from recycling centres. Over six events in 2024, the café repaired or advised on 256 items, reducing waste by more than 500 kg.

 Our volunteers have skills in many areas, including electrical goods such as toasters and table lamps, electronic items such as HiFi equipment and TV’s, clothing and textiles, including time-worn teddy bears and general mechanical items and toys. We have been joined recently by leather expert Natalie. Last Saturday, a gentleman brought in his dinner gong as the mallet needed some TLC. Natalie managed to recover the mallet with new leather so he can now resume calling his guests to dinner with the gong. Meanwhile, a lady had brought in a transistor alarm-radio that until recently had given her a reliable wake-up call with her favourite radio station for the last 45 years! Unfortunately, something had gone wrong and she could only tune in a station that was not to her liking. Electronics expert Chris found the fault (see the Image) so this treasured radio alarm can continue its service for many more years.

We’ll return in 2025 with events on the third Saturday of every other month, starting January 18th, from 10:00 am to 12:30 pm at the Croft Hall.

Future Dates
Sat 18th January 2025
Sat 15th March 2025
Sat 17th May 2025
Sat 19th July 2025
Sat 20th September 2025
Sat 15th November 2025