Oundle Repair Cafe returns with community mending session - and refreshments

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Broken household items will be brought back to life at Oundle’s Repair Cafe, a one-stop shop where broken belongings will be mended by a team of volunteers – all over a cuppa.

Oundle residents have been invited to bring in their damaged items to Fletton House, off Glapthorn Road, on July 9 when a team of skilled voluntary repairers will do their best to mend them.

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A team of people have been recruited to sew, mend, repair, darn and fix things as well as serve tea and cakes.

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Oundle Repair Café

John Wade from the Oundle Repair Cafe project said: “We are a throw-away society, which means that vast amounts of stuff gets put into landfill every day.

"We even throw away things with almost nothing wrong, and which could get a new lease on life after a simple repair. Knowing how to make repairs is a skill quickly lost, and that’s true of several generations – the kind of skill which an older relative or neighbour would be able to offer.”

Oundle Repair Cafe is a free meeting place where the gifted repairers work with visitors’ items including clothes, furniture, electrical appliances, bicycles, crockery, appliances and toys that need care, attention and fixing.

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Owners of broken items will be able to watch and learn from volunteers while enjoying some refreshments.

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Oundle Repair Café volunteers will mend household items

Mr Wade said: “The Repair Cafe teaches people to see their possessions in a new light. And, once again, to appreciate their value.

“The Repair Café just wants to show how much fun repairing things can be, and how easy it often is. “

Contact [email protected] for more information.

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