fw: Sheffield's First Repair Café

[Ali Buxton]

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From: Jenni Brooks <jennifer...@googlemail.com>
Date: 17 March 2013 09:54:38 GMT
To: crookes-walkley <crookes...@lists.transitionsheffield.org.uk>
Subject: [Crookes-walkley] Sheffield's First Repair Café

Hi all,

Sheffield's first Repair Café will be at Heeley City Farm on Saturday 13th April, 10-4.

People who know how to mend stuff bring their tools and get together over coffee with people with broken stuff to get it mended and pass on skills and knowledge.
We hope to be able to mend:

• Small electrical appliances.
• Toys
• Clothing
• Bikes (with http://recyclebikes.co.uk)
  
• Shoes
• China
• Kitchen utensils

and so on. For larger stuff, we want to promote repairing in Sheffield and support local businesses.

Being able to mend stuff is an important factor of resilience. We need to work towards seeing recycling as failure: failure to mend or reuse or pass on stuff. Come and join us.

This has come out of the Transition Sheffield Workshop last October.

Website: http://www.repairsheffield.org

Article in The Telegraph: http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/news/local/fightback-against-throwaway-society-1-5456868

For more on the Repair Café concept: http://repaircafe.org
For other UK repair cafés:
London: http://www.thegoodlifecentre.co.uk/repair-cafe
Glasgow: http://www.thelighthouse.co.uk/create/event/repair-cafe

If you can contribute skills, email in...@repairsheffield.org. Also if you want to explore running repair cafés in your neighbourhood.

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