Repairing clothes and textiles
Give your bag, skirt, trousers or jacket a new life! Clothing is brought to many Repair Cafés almost non-stop. Coats, bags, trousers, skirts, you name it. Our repairers are happy…
Repairing audio and video equipment
Give your tape recorder, record player, CD player or DVD player a new life! Many Repair Cafés regularly receive visitors with audio and video equipment. Older appliances, in particular, such…
Smartphone or tablet broken? Repair Café fixes!
Smartphones and tablets are known to be hard to repair. Yet the problem is often less complicated than it seems. In the Repair Café, more than 40 per cent of…
Sewing machine broken? Repair Café fixes!
Sewing machines are easy to repair in the Repair Café. This certainly applies to mechanical ones. 73 percent of the sewing machines brought to the Repair Café are successfully repaired.…
Jewelry broken? Repair Café fixes!
Do you have broken jewelry at home? Repair Cafés do not only fix coffee machines and vacuum cleaners, but also broken jewelry! Necklaces, bracelets and earrings are more and more…
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 Café volunteers can use to…
Lamp broken? Repair Café fixes!
The lamp is a product which can be found in all households. It's therefore not surprising that the lamp is one of the most popular items in Repair Cafés. For…
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 too, as well as jewelry…
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 is saving. What is the…
Lack of repair knowledge hinders circular economy
Many broken items are relatively easy to repair. But many people have so little repair knowledge that they don’t succeed in doing so independently. That is one of the conclusions…