Repair cafe for Audlem?

Are electronics your thing but is your multi meter gathering dust?
Can you find your way round the inside of a hairdryer or toaster?
Does the sight of a broken chair leg excite your carpentry skills?
When you watch someone struggle with a broken zip, do your fingers itch to work with a needle and thread?

The Repair Cafe Foundation is a worldwide non-profit organisation which was set up by Martine Postma in 2011 in the Netherlands. There are now over 2,500 Repair Cafés around the world.
The Repair Cafe website gives a description of the idea:

"Repair Cafés are free meeting places and they're all about repairing things (together). In the place where a Repair Café is located, you'll find tools and materials to help you make any repairs you need. On clothes, furniture, electrical appliances, bicycles, crockery, appliances, toys, et cetera. You'll also find expert volunteers, with repair skills in all kinds of fields.
Visitors bring their broken items from home. Together with the specialists they start making their repairs in the Repair Café. It's an ongoing learning process. If you have nothing to repair, you can enjoy a cup of tea or coffee. Or you can lend a hand with someone else's repair job."

I am certain that there are a number of people in our wonderful village who have the know-how and expertise to diagnose and repair those everyday items that we all have at home which have stopped working or are otherwise destined for the bin. I am testing the water to see whether there is enough interest to start a Repair Cafe in Audlem.

So, if you fancy yourself as Audlem's answer to the "Repair Shop's" watchmaker Steve Fletcher, carpenter Will Kirk, ceramicist Kirsten Ramsay or even one of the 'Bear Ladies' – please drop me an email and let's see if we can get a Repair Cafe off the ground.

Adrian Farrow
ajfarrow60@gmail.com

(Pictures from Repair Cafe website)