Category: Community

January 21, 2017

Happy New Year! 1st Repair Cafe of 2017

Community, reducewaste, Repair, repair event, repaircafe, Sharing, Skills

We have our work cut out but let’s make 2017 all about restoration and fixing. Our new years resolution is to mend more and buy less. What’s yours? We will be holding our next repair café on Saturday 28th January from 12-3pm at our regular home FIELD Brighton, FIELD HOUSE, Preston Barracks, Lewes Road, BN2 4GL Bring along anything that needs sewing,… → read on

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February 23, 2016

Our first Repair Cafe of the year: January 2016

Amendments, Community, repair event, Sewing

Happy girls (who made us very happy) went back home with healed wounded teddies. Betty helped them while they watched attentively. Some glue on those favourite red shoes gave them a new life… And of course, that awesome onesie! Ready to put on after Shirley got rid of a big hole. Ernesto came along with a thread bare dressing gown, Shirley did… → read on

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January 25, 2016

Start 2016 by giving life to your old things…

Amendments, Community, Repair, repair event

We will be at the Bevy this coming Saturday (30th January). This will be at the new time of 11am- 2pm We will be able to help with electrical and electronic goods as well as anything that needs sewing, gluing & darning. Come along with your broken things! → read on

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October 4, 2014

Next Saturday 11th October

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

We will be back at St George’s Church in Kemp Town for a repair café at our usual time of 11am-2pm. Bring along your broken electrical goods, jewellery and bric-a-brac as well as any clothing or textiles that need mending. We will also have Tom our expert darner on hand to show you how to… → read on

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September 5, 2014

July’s repair café

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

Our July repair café seems so long ago now as we had a break in August. We are now looking forward to our next event as we are holding a MENDATHON in collaboration with The Restart Project (who fix electronic items – from iphones to laptops) this Saturday (6th September) at the Brighton Mini Maker… → read on

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June 7, 2014

Next Saturday…

Clothing, Community, Darning, Jewellery, Repair, repair event, Sewing, Skills, Social, Textiles

We won’t have Mattia on hand to help with electrical repairs but we may have someone step in to take up the mantle so watch this space for up-dates. We will however be doing furniture repair for the first time thanks to Ali offering to come along and help out after attending the May repair… → read on

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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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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 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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Category: Community

Happy New Year! 1st Repair Cafe of 2017

Our first Repair Cafe of the year: January 2016

Start 2016 by giving life to your old things…

Next Saturday 11th October

July’s repair café

Next Saturday…

Merry May Mending

Next week!

March’s Repair Cafe

February’s Repair Café