Author: brightonrepaircafe

We are back with our in person events at a new venue in North Brighton. We will be able to help you fix clothing, textiles, small electrical goods, bric a brac and software issues on computers. Pop along! → read on

ITV will show a documentary about the Right to Repair on ‘Tonight’ at 7:30pm on Thursday 14th Oct. If you agree please sign the Right to Repair petition → read on

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10am-1pm on the 16th October at Albion Life This will be our official re-launch of live events (after several false starts). The event will be in the community garden, the hub & the car park area. Albion Community GardenAlbion StreetBrightonBN2 9PP There will be fixsters on hand to help you with bike repairing, electrical goods,… → read on

To celebrate #repairday we have put together a downloadable list of our favourite repair shops and services in and around Brighton: If your favourite repairer isn’t on the list do let us know and we’ll add it to our forthcoming repair map! → read on

In the run up to Repair Day this Saturday we’d like to know which is your favourite repair shop or service in Brighton & Hove? Let us know via:Email: brightonrepaircafe@gmail.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/brightonrepcafe Twitter: @Brightonrepcafe #RepairDay #RepairIsEssential → read on

Our team of amazing Fixsters will be online again and able to give you advice about fixing your broken objects – helping diagnose the problem, working out whether it can be repaired, how to go about it and where to get parts or help. All during an informal and friendly chat! We can give advice… → read on

We asked people to email us to say they wanted to take part with a photo or description of the item that needed repairing. This not only helped with managing the number of participants and safeguarding (instead of publishing the zoom call details publicly for anyone to join without contacting us first) but once we… → read on

After a quiet period of reflection on the future of community repair and how to keep it going in the Covid-19 era we are embarking on holding online events. These will be advisory sessions and a chance to get advice from our amazing volunteers who are repair experts in different areas from sewing and textiles to electrical… → read on

We’d like to thank Outift @emmausbrighton for hosting us for the BIG FIX 2020 with such style and kindness. We had a great session repairing 25 items that otherwise may have gone to landfill included in this were 11 toys so one little boy went home very happy and with ideas about how to fix… → read on