Just 9 days to go as we count down to the launch of the new Repair Cafe on November 8th! We have a team of repairers waiting to help with your broken items so do come along with smallish items to repair or just to have a look at our venue and to meet some of our team.
This first session we will have people who can help with sewing repairs, including mending soft toys, repairs of woollen items, repairs of beaded jewellery, carpentry/wooden repairs, art restoration, repairs of small musical instruments and mechanical fixes.
Please note: we don’t yet have a volunteer electrician so cannot carry out electrical repairs at this time.
We will be operating out of the downstairs rooms beside the cafe so please enter via the alley at the side of the Umbrella Centre and don’t forget that you can park at the charity car park across the road from the centre for a small donation. We look forward to seeing you on 8th!
If you think you can help with repairs to small electrical items, please get in touch. You will need to be a qualified electrician who is willing to give up a few hours once a month to volunteer with us (PAT testing certified preferable but we can sort if not).
Contact details: repaircafewhitstable@gmail.com. You can also check out our facebook page: Repair Cafe Whitstable or read below for more details of this exciting project.
We are excited to announce that we have been busy planning a new Repair Cafe for Whitstable, Herne Bay and surrounding villages, aligned with the international Repair Cafe organisation, www.repaircafe.org/en/
We’re now ready to announce our launch on Saturday November 8th 2025, at the Whitstable Umbrella Centre, Oxford St CT5 1DD and are inviting any interested people to come along on, with or without an item to repair, to have a chat and find out how it all works.
We are urgently looking for repairers who can help us in this venture. If you have, or know of anyone who has, the skills and knowledge to repair broken items and can spare a few hours once a month please get in touch.
We plan to run the Repair Cafe on the second Saturday of every month, excluding December and August, from 10am – 1pm.
We understand that repairers may not be able to come every month and we will post which repairers will be available, a couple of days before each event here, and on our facebook page.
We look forward to your support for this project and to seeing you at our launch
www.sigbi.org/whitstable/repair-cafe
Email: whitstablerepaircafe2025@gmail.com
