What do you do with a broken toaster? A coffee machine that’s seen better days? Or a jumper full of holes?
Toss it? No way – let’s repair it!
What is a Repair Café?
Repair Cafés are pop-up events held on regular dates where the local community can get their broken household items repaired for free or for a small donation by volunteers.
Not only do they save items from landfill – they save people money and are great community events, bringing people together and providing the chance for the repairers to use their skills to benefit others.
What is our vision for the Chester Repair Café?
Our Chester Repair Café brings 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 all our wonderful volunteers bring plenty of both!
The Chester Repair Café Spacehive crowdfunder has now closed – thanks to all our 55 backers and Cheshire West and Chester Council we have been able to raise £2,752!
This means that we have enough funding to run the Repair Café for at least 12 months.
When is the next Chester Repair Café?
| Date: | Saturday 29 November 2025 |
| Time: | 10.30am to 12.30pm (volunteers to arrive at 10am) |
| Location: | Hoole Community Centre, Westminster Road, CH2 3AP |
For more information about the venue, including any accessibility enquiries, please contact us at chesterrepaircafe@gmail.com.
Bring along your broken items and our handy volunteers will do their best to give them a new lease of life and save them from landfill! Repairers can be different for each Repair Café, but are generally able to work on:
- Small electricals (no microwaves)
- Clothes, textiles and teddies
- Bicycles
- Computers including Windows 10 End of Life (https://endof10.org/)
It’s recommended that you only bring one item at a time to the Repair Café, because you will need to be with the repairer while the repair is being carried out. If a specific part is needed, you may be required to purchase the part and bring it back to the Café (either during the session, or the next one).
Future Repair Café dates
- Further dates TBC – usually the 3rd Saturday of the month
Here is some of the great feedback we’ve received from visitors to the Café so far:
“Friendly helpful people, great community spirit”
“Bringing teddy back to life – pawtastic!”
“Wonderful and great to see so many people”
“Amazing, really talented repairers”
Want to volunteer?
If you’d like to be a repairer or get involved in running the Café in any way you can sign up as a volunteer here:
A full list of volunteer roles is available to view below.
If you know anyone else who might be interested, please share this webpage & invite them to come on this exciting new venture with us.
Have a question not covered here?
Direct enquiries can be sent to: chesterrepaircafe@gmail.com
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