On Saturday July 20 from 10am – 12:30pm, the Rye Repair Cafe will be at the Rye Community Centre on Conduit Hill. It is the second one and the core group who organises this would like to encourage everyone who has broken or damaged items to come and see if they can be mended.
The whole ethos behind this new venture is to encourage stainability, to stop clogging up landfills and to stop thinking new is best. We would ask people who do not have any items to come and have a look and maybe offer to volunteer or think “I have a skill” I can help with, especially jewellery repair.
As you can read in our last article after opening the doors to our first Repair Cafe, (Repair Cafe success) it was a great success, including the option of coffee ,tea and cake in case there was a short wait for the relevant volunteer repairer.
As last time, we hope to have someone sharpening all sorts of things, a computer expert with electric appliances skills, someone who is skilled in woodwork, a general repairer including fiddly things, two repairers for electricals, two sewers to show you how to mend a hole or rework an item. This time we will also have mechanics who can show you how to mend a bike tyre or readjust the chain.
There will be volunteers at reception helping you to find the right volunteer for your damaged pieces. Maybe we will see you there, with or without items. It’s a fun morning, seeing friends or making new ones.
Rye Community Centre, Conduit Hill, TN31 7LE
Image Credits: Jane Munro , Caroline Hill .