Chineham Repair Café

Bin it? No way! Fix it!

Repair
Reuse
Relove

About

About Repair Café

How Repair Café Works

What is Repair Café?

We throw away vast amounts of stuff. Even things with almost nothing wrong, 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 themselves or they no longer know how. Knowing how to make repairs is a skill quickly lost. Repair Café changes all that! People who might otherwise be sidelined are getting involved again. Valuable practical knowledge is getting passed on. Things are being used for longer and don’t have to be thrown away. This reduces the volume of raw materials and energy needed to make new products. It cuts CO2 emissions, for example, because manufacturing new products causes CO2 to be released.

Change mindsets

  • Recycle
  • Reuse
  • Relove
  • Help Save the Planet

Repair Café teaches people to see their possessions in a new light. And, once again, to appreciate their value. Repair Café helps change people’s mindset. This is essential to kindle people’s enthusiasm for a sustainable society. But most of all, Repair Café just wants to show how much fun repairing things can be, and how easy it often is. Why don’t you give it a go?

toaster repair
Our Mission

To cultivate awareness of the bigger picture and of the pronounced impact reuse has on the environment, on personal well-being, and on our community's resiliency;
To cultivate motivation to extend the life of the things we have through repair; and
To cultivate the capacity to repair, through learning to fix things ourselves, or finding out how and where to have them repaired.

Repair Café
Our Plan

Introduce Repair Café's locally. Extending and enhancing the current network of venues and dates.

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Our Vision

To bring practical, low cost, repairs to people. Extending the life of everyday objects.
To reduce the amount of things going into landfill.
To reduce the amount of new things we need to buy.

Suporters

Organisations helping us

Repair Café

Locations & Events

Where to find our events

Upcoming Events

The 3rd Saturday of every month (from 10am to 1pm) at:


Christ Church Chineham
Reading Road
Basingstoke, RG24 8LT

  • Level access.
  • Parking.
  • Catering Facilities.

Christ Church Chineham Reading Road, Basingstoke, RG24 8LT

  • Level access.
  • Parking.
  • Catering Facilities.

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Outside view of the location. Directions available from Google maps.

Services

Our Services

Items we can't repair

Unfortunately we can't accept: Cane Furniture, Electric Blankets, Petrol Driven Items. Microwaves

Computers

Fault analysis on Computers. Simple repairs to laptops, desktops, tablets.

Small Electrical Appliances

Fault analysis and repair on things from coffee makers to toasters.

Clothes

Simple repairs on clothes

Furniture

Fixes and repairs on small items of furniture.

Garden Tools

Sharpen tweak and fettle.

Toys

Simple repairs for old and modern toys.

Pictures

Check out our pictures

  • All
  • General
  • Electrical
  • Computer
  • Sharpening
Team

Team on 20th Jan

Contact

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