Launch event date as Morpeth starts its own Repair Café
Community volunteers are organising a launch event to establish a Repair Café in Morpeth.
It will be held at the Barnabas Safe and Sound premises on Dark Lane on Saturday, December 6 from 10am to 1pm.
There has been a repair service for the local community in place for over a year, fixing many broken items. The volunteer repairers now want to increase their benefit to society by holding larger monthly sessions with more repairers fixing many more items in a warm, friendly café space.
People visiting the Repair Café can bring along broken items from home such as toasters, lamps, hair dryers, clothes, bikes, toys, crockery and more.
The Morpeth Repairer group has now become affiliated with the Repair Café International organisation and is receiving some help from them in getting better established, with the aim of having a regular monthly Repair Café at the same location.
A spokesperson for the group said: “By promoting repairs, the repair volunteers want to support the Morpeth community and help reduce mountains of waste. Even things that hardly have anything wrong with them, which could easily be used again after a simple repair.
“We will put neighbours and volunteers in touch with each other in a new way and over time will lead to more people understanding that know-how and practical skills can be found close to home.
“We are very grateful to Barnabas for nurturing the fledgling group over the last year and for providing workshop facilities and the use of their café. We are also in touch with other repair cafés in Northumberland to share knowledge and experiences.”