Shropshire Climate Action
Cutting Carbon - Restoring Nature - Saving Money
Repair & repurpose
What are Repair Cafés?
Repair Cafés are popping up all over Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin. For the full listing of local repair cafés and when they are held, scroll to the end of this page.
Repair Cafés are free meeting places where local people can take their broken items, volunteers help to repair them. and where people may also be taught to repair their own items.
This may include:
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Clothes
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Soft toys
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Household furnishings
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Furniture
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Electrical appliances
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Bikes
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Household items including crockery
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Ornaments
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Garden tools etc.
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This video shows a Repair Café in action.
Actions you can take
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1. Set up a Repair Café in your community using our tool kit
Download this tool kit, developed by Ludlow Repair Café, which provides the paperwork to help new Repair Cafés set up. This will download as a zip file.
The National Repair Café website also provides guidance on how to set up a repair café.
2. Find a local Repair Café
Take your broken items to one of the local Repair Cafés across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin.
You can find some local repair cafes on the Repair Cafe website map.
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Or the list below shows you where you can find your nearest one and how often they meet.
3. Volunteer with a Repair Café
Consider offering your fixing and mending skills as a volunteer
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