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May 28, 2014

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May 28, 2014

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May 28, 2014

Merry May Mending

Clothing, Community, Darning, electrical, Repair, repair event, Resources, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Textiles

Sam (who co-organises Brighton Repair Café) turned her making skills to use, showing Sarah how to replace the disintegrated rubber seal on a coffee maker with a new one. Fiona of The Lost Mitten Project talked Stacey through how to repair the ladders in a favourite top, suggesting that after darning the holes that she could… → read on

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May 11, 2014

Next week!

Clothing, Community, electrical, Jewellery, Repair, repair event, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Textiles

We will have volunteers on hand to help repair electrical goods, bikes, textiles, clothing (including access to sewing machines and a bobble remover) and anything that needs glueing, or a bit of creative fixing. The Seven Bees Café will be serving Iain’s legendary breakfasts and other refreshments. We will also have some live acoustic music… → read on

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May 5, 2014

Circus Street Community Room hosted the Repair Café in April

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Thanks to Circus Street Community Room for providing a venue to run the April Repair Café.Many new faces arrived to seek help from Dan, Roberto, Mattia and Izzie. Sophie fixed the wing of her daughter’s fairy with araldite…and sewed the neck of her sons hippo.Eva repaired the soles of her luxurious sheep skin slippers with… → read on

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April 30, 2014

March’s Repair Cafe

Clothing, Community, Darning, electrical, Repair, repair event, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Textiles, Things

We were at St George’s Church where we met Geraldine. Who needed Sam’s help to fix her handbag… After unscrewing the clasp and feeding the material back in the clasp was screwed back together and the repair was complete! Mattia’s skills were needed by one of our youngest fixers yet to help fix her toy… → read on

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April 2, 2014

Our next event…

Clothing, electrical, Jewellery, Repair, repair event, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Sustainability, Textiles

Will be at Circus Street Community Spacewhich is at the Old Municipal Market on Circus Street (behind the Blind Tiger & next to the Wood Recycling Store) On Saturday 12th April 11.00-14.00 Bring your bikes, electricals, textiles and jewellery to repair with the help of our volunteers and tools. There isn’t a café in this space… → read on

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April 2, 2014

Brighton Repair Café’s 1st Birthday Party

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After printing the postersWe put them up around Kemp Town. The talented Lucy Jane Keay made us bunting and sent it down from Scotland. We dusted off the badge making machine and made limited edition badges, whilst getting St George’s Church ready for the party. Iain from Seven Bees Café prepared a feast of delicious… → read on

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April 1, 2014

February’s Repair Café

Clothing, Community, Darning, electrical, Jewellery, Learning, Repair, repair event, Resources, Sewing, Sharing, Skills, Social, Sustainability, Textiles, Things

brought some new faces who were shown how to darn and patch to make links in order to fix jewellery We had a visit from a lady who is knitting a map of Brighton & Dan fashioned a nifty bike basket rack out of coat hangers! → read on

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March 14, 2014

We’ve been on the radio

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with Flemmich Webb at Radio Free Brighton Listen here to the podcast Then come and chat to us in person at tomorrow’s repair café from 11am-2pm at St George’s Church, St George’s Road, Kemp Town. We’ll have volunteers and tools on hand to help repairs of bikes, electrical goods, clothing, textiles and anything that needs darning.… → read on

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Author: brightonrepaircafe

Read all about us in The Sunday Telegraph

Help us spread the word…

Merry May Mending

Next week!

Circus Street Community Room hosted the Repair Café in April

March’s Repair Cafe

Our next event…

Brighton Repair Café’s 1st Birthday Party

February’s Repair Café

We’ve been on the radio