Repair café on Saturday the 7th of September!
We will have general, electrical and sewing repairers ready to tackle your broken possessions. Read about how it works here
Come towards the start of the session if possible, to get your repair in the queue! (maximum 2 per person)
Repair Cafés encourage people to understand how to repair and maintain things. Come to our first workshop where you can learn to sharpen your garden tools yourself.
Sharpening Workshop for secateurs and garden shears
Sessions are 10.30-11.30am, 11.45am-12.45pm.
The workshop is free, but must be prebooked.
This one is strictly for secateurs or garden shears only- no knives, other garden tools or other sharp implements please!
See more details about what to bring and book your slot here.
Orca and Bee will be at the Repair Café with a wide range of household refills and eco friendly products, so bring your empties!
Sustainable Amersham started the Repair Café in July 2022, and it has been very popular as a way of prolonging the life of all sorts of prized possessions and reducing the amount of items heading for the bin or for recycling.
We look forward to seeing you!
How it works.
- Doors open at 10am, and you fill in a repair form at the entrance desk and have a look at the house rules.
- Because the demand for repairs is usually high, we ask that you only bring two repairs per person. If there are a lot of repairs, we may have to stop admitting new items before the Café closes, so it is better to come along earlier in the session.
- Take the form to the Repair check-in desk who will allocate you to the appropriate repairer. There may be a queue, so you will be given a repair number showing your place in it.
- It is hard to estimate how long repairs take, so you can enjoy the Cafe part of the event and have a cup of tea or coffee and a slice of home-made cake while you wait for your turn.
- Chat to the Sustainable Amersham team! Find out about waste and recycling, stock up on Household refills, or browse the free magazines.
- When your repair number comes up, you take your item to the repairer and sit with them while they work on it so that they can ask questions and explain what they are doing. It’s a very interesting part of the process.
- Please return the completed repair form to the exit desk once the repairer has finished, whether your item has been fixed or not!
Our friendly volunteers will guide you through this process. We don’t as for payment, but if you can donate this all helps to keep the project running.
If you would like to help us either as a repairer or as a meet and greeter, pop in and say hello, or drop us an email.
There are lots of other local Repair Café’s that run on different days. Find out details here.