The idea
Our Chester Repair Cafe would bring together skilled volunteers in a friendly, accessible community environment (with cake!) to repair broken or damaged household items. People will have the opportunity to bring their items for repair and, if they want, to learn how to repair and maintain items themselves.
This helps our communities to breathe new life into household items which would otherwise end up in landfill, incinerated or exported from our country. Good cake and a friendly atmosphere are essential and so our wonderful volunteers and members will bring plenty of both!
We want to make it easy, accessible and even fun to keep these items in use. Have you been staring at that broken hoover, set of kitchen scales or old worn chair thinking about getting round to take it to the tip? Help us to raise our start up funds and you could breathe new life into and have a cup of tea and a cake all at the same time!
What we'll deliver
- Monthly repair cafe event from suitable venues in Chester
- Increased volunteering and community action
- Reduced landfill
Why it's a great idea
We will help to keep broken and damaged household items out of landfill or incinerators - this not only directly helps avoid damaging the environment (e.g. avoiding release of CO2 into the atmosphere) but also keeps precious and scarce resources from being wasted, helping to create a circular economy.
Taking time out of your day to travel to the tip to put broken items in the household electricals for example can feel like an additional chore in our busy lives - taking these items to a repair cafe can feel like a community event as part of our weekend, help people to gain new skills if they want or just get some good cake (did we mention the cake already?!).
Steps to get it done
- Select suitable venue(s)
- Recruit volunteer repair workforce
- Recruit registered PAT tester
- Publicise Repair Cafe widely to our local communities
- Hold our first Repair Cafe event
