Bring your broken items to be fixed by local volunteers on the last Sunday of every month!
After a successful soft launch in September, the Dorchester Repair Café are delighted to open their first event on Sunday 27th October 10am-12 at Sunninghill Community Hall, Dorchester DT1 1EB (behind Sunninghill School). The repair cafe would love you to join them, whether you have something to fix or you just want to take a look!
A repair cafe offers tools, materials and specialist help to fix broken household items and therefore save them from landfill. Anyone is welcome to bring an item along, come for a chat, have a coffee or just watch the repairers at work.
This event not only helps to give new life to broken things, but also provides a place for people to meet, chat, & share skills; a chance for them to learn new things, live more sustainably, make community links and reduce social isolation.
The volunteers are a mix of locals from all walks of life who share a love of DIY and a commitment to come together and help their community. The cafe are looking for more volunteers to join them at any of their events which will be on the last Sunday of every month from January to November. All skills welcome! They need help with admin, reception, refreshments, and of course repairing. Their repairers will have a go at most things, but they generally cover the following: electrics, electronics, computers, tools, bicycles, jewellery, sewing, woodwork, small appliances, ceramics, fabrics.
The repair cafe would like to thank several amazing local business and organisations for their support, without which they would not have been able to make this happen.
The Embroidery Barn
ADP printing
Bonjour Cafe Poundbury
Transition Town Dorchester
Tom Browns
Weymouth Repair Cafe
Find them on Facebook and Instagram @dorchesterrepaircafe
Dorchester Repair Café
Sunninghill Community Hall
(Behind Sunninghill School)
Cullingford Road North
Dorchester
DT1 1EB
Plenty of parking available