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Reduce waste with Coquetdale Repair Café
Funded on Spacehive 12 May 2022
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Reduce waste with Coquetdale Repair Café
By Rothbury CAN, subgroup Coquetdale Repair Café
Coquetdale Repair Café combines fun & learning with reducing waste. Have your broken items repaired or learn to repair them yourself, with the help of friendly volunteers. Tea and cakes provided!
Coquetdale Repair Café in Rothbury is a great opportunity for the local community to help save the planet, meet people, enjoy a chat with tea and cake, and learn new skills in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. You can bring items such as clothes, knitwear and fabrics, toys including your pets' toys, small electricals and furniture, bikes with punctures, etc. Volunteers will be on hand to repair items and teach new repair skills to those interested. Local businesses will be involved and given the chance to meet new customers. The café will be held every 6-8 weeks in the Jubilee Hall in the centre of Rothbury. Your pledges and likes are essential for securing the funding for this project. Please like and follow us and share the link!
What we'll deliver:
- Rent room and storage space
- Train 2 PAT-testers and buy PAT test equipment
- Buy tools and consumable items such as wire, threads, glue, nails, etc.
- Buy promotional material including banners to show where/when the café is open
- Provide refreshments for the café
- Buy small presents or an annual lunch to thank volunteers for their time
Why it's a great idea:
*Reduce waste by repairing items that would otherwise have gone into landfill *Help our community to save money and keep precious belongings going for longer *Teach people repairing skills *Offer a friendly social setting for the local community to meet with tea and cakes *Introduce repairers from local businesses to potential new customers *Allow tradespeople and craftspeople to advertise within the café *Create awareness of easy, fun and low- or no-cost steps people can take to help combat climate change.
Steps to get it done:
- Engage pool of volunteers (repairers, other helpers, catering)
- Engage local businesses
- Arrange recurring bookings at Jubilee Hall
- Advertise Repair Café meetings in local media
- Hold Repair Café events, evaluate afterwards and improve where possible
- Secure continuity of project by securing necessary funding
In the future, we aim to take Coquetdale Repair Café to more remote villages in Upper Coquetdale.
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Location Rothbury
About the space
Rothbury is an attractive market town in the heart of rural Coquetdale, on the edge of Northumberland National Park. We will use the Jubilee Hall, Rothbury's main community centre. In the future, we aim to take Coquetdale Repair Café to more remote villages in Upper Coquetdale.
Council
Northumberland Council
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90 people have backed Reduce waste with Coquetdale Repair Café!4 days ago
Whoop, 90 people have pledged since fundraising began!
Reduce waste with Coquetdale Repair Café hit its fundraising target!4 days ago
Brilliant news, thanks everyone!
Rothbury Parish Council pledged £1,5004 days ago
We're Overfunding!
10 Pledges worth £2175 days ago
Reduce waste with Coquetdale Repair Café has reached 50% of its target!1 week ago
Last chances for North of Tyne funding1 week ago
The coming week will be a week of truth for Coquetdale Repair Café: will we get crucial funding from North of Tyne? We are making good progress, with community support still growing and 49% of our target pledged. And there’s more press coverage to come: look out for us in The Chronicle this week and tune in to BBC Radio Newcastle tomorrow morning! Important criteria for North of Tyne funding are: the amount of money raised, the number of backers and supporters, and the percentage of the project goal raised so far. Can you help us boost our chances? Only £ 29,50 is needed to get us to 50%! All your pledges are more than welcome. Please spread the word and the link! Thanks so much on behalf of our keen team members, and most of all... our dearly beloved planet!
80 people have backed Reduce waste with Coquetdale Repair Café!1 week ago
Whoop, 80 people have pledged since fundraising began!
34 Pledges worth £6941 week ago
How will the money be spent?Total £3,236
Costs Breakdown
This shows how money raised for the project will be spent. These costs have been confirmed by the project's Delivery Manager and verified.
17%
Training course PAT tester (2x)
£540
13%
PAT tester equipment
£408
11%
Annual rent room Jubilee Hall
£342
9%
Consumables: glues, nails, threads, replacement of small hand tools broken during repair etc.
£300
9%
Contingencies
£300
7%
Adjustable desk lamps (4)
£240
6%
Café catering (tea/coffee, cakes/biscuits)
£200
6%
Lunches / presents for repairers/volunteers
£200
6%
Signage/ promotional banners
£190
3%
Folding work bench (1) + delivery
£100
13%
Other
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£416
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Spacehive fees£153
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Cloth to protect tables, 20 m.£80
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Transaction fees£57
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Printing leaflets / flyers£52
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VAT£31
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Public liability insurance (our share of Rothbury CAN insurance)£25
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Annual rent of storage cupboard yearly£18
Overfunding
This project is enabled for overfunding. If the project hits its funding goal before the end of the campaign period, any extra funds raised will be spent (in order of priority) on:
- Taking the Repair Café to remote villages in Coquetdale
- Continuation of the Coquetdale Repair Café in future years
- Buy tools and equipment
Total £3,236
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Offer somethingAbout the Project Creator
Our project for a Coquetdale Repair Café grew out of the Rothbury Climate and Nature community group (Rothbury CAN). Rothbury Climate and Nature includes several interest groups, for example: the Reuse, Reduce, Recycle group which launched the Repair Café idea, Rothbury Tree Wardens (www.rothburytrees.uk), Rothbury Rubbish Friends (community litter picking), and Rothbury Living Environment Group, which has been improving our town by planting wild flowers and hedging. Now we want to branch out and bring the Repair Café to fruition, a project which will reduce waste and benefit everyone in the wider Coquetdale community.
Project Owner: Rothbury CAN (Climate and Nature), subgroup Coquetdale Repair Café The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
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