Category: repair event

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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January 25, 2016

Repairs in November…

Amendments, Repair, repair event

Anna and Shirley created a patch for Anna’s favorite coat which had a torn lining under the arm. Hannah fixed the belt hoop on her trousers by inserting a piece of fabric where a tear had developed. Sam created a button hole on a skirt that originally fastened with a hook and eye. She was… → read on

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October 26, 2014

Our Mendathon at the Brighton Mini Maker Faire

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

We were really chuffed to have Dave and Faraz from the Restart Project join us for the mendathon to help with electronic repairs – but they soon turned their hands to help with a range of other repairs too. Dave got started by fixing a hedge trimmer. The head of one of the screws was stripped so it… → 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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July 9, 2014

New volunteers join us at the June Repair Café…

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

Ali A.K.A ‘The Chair Doctor’ went to work on two loved but rickety old chairs. He secured the top rail of a chair by reinforcing the outside spindles, gluing and pining it back in to place.Another chair which had somehow had its arm wrenched off, needed the gnarly pins and screws embedded in the wood… → 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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Category: repair event

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…

Repairs in November…

Our Mendathon at the Brighton Mini Maker Faire

Next Saturday 11th October

July’s repair café

New volunteers join us at the June Repair Café…

Next Saturday…

Merry May Mending