Get ready for Repair Day 2020
Mark your calendars for Saturday 17 October because it’s the annual International Repair Day! While recent months have made it difficult to come together and…
Visit our online exhibition BEAUTIFUL PIECE!
After a forced break of six months, the Repair Café exhibition 'BEAUTIFUL PIECE! Ode to the repair' is on tour again. The pieces can be…
Volunteering for the Repair Café: making people happy
Do you have a bit of spare time? And do you want to spend it in a meaningful and pleasant way? You can follow in…
Online repair – also after COVID-19!
Many Repair Cafés have gained experience with online sessions in recent months. During the lockdown, remote repair assistance has proven to be a good alternative…
Webinar on data collection for the repair community
Repair Café International recently participated in a webinar on data collection for the repair community. Martine Postma demonstrated the RepairMonitor, the online tool which Repair…
Keep spirits up with a Repair Café song
Many Repair Cafés are still idle at the moment. Nevertheless, the concept continues to inspire people. To a song for example! Sophie Martin-Hautinguiraut composed a…
Visitors praise Repair Café repairers
“Why do people want to repair their product at the Repair Café?” This is the main research question that Lianne Pit answered in her master's…
Leaf blowers and air fryers come to Repair Cafés too
Not only coffee makers, vacuum cleaners and trousers are repaired at the Repair Café. Defective leaf blowers, bread makers and air fryers are brought there…
New tool: Repair Café Carbon Calculator
Farnham Repair Café (UK) launched the free-to-use “Repair Café Carbon Calculator” - a new tool which can tell you how much carbon your Repair Café…