Join the repair revolution! 🌍💚 Come along anytime 11am-2pm to Hand:Plant Cafe and Delta on Ilfracombe High Street to bring your items back to life and learn new skills!
***This is a free event***
Skills sharing:
Our skilled repairers are on hand to share their skills with you to take home - you can learn basic sewing, knitwear patching, visible mending and how to service your bike!
Our superstar volunteers will be on hand for the following repairs:
⚙️Sewing machine repairs eg tension adjustment and other small mechanicals
🚲 Basic bike repairs
🧵 General repairs, eg all and sundry - message us to check if you have a specific query!
👚 Textiles, eg replace zips and buttons (bring your own zips and buttons), simple alterations, visible darning
🧶 Knitting and crochet - wool garments, blankets, toys etc
💍 Basic jewellery repairs, eg twisted jump rings, restringing
However, as we rely on volunteers, we can't always guarantee that all these skills will be available.
If you have any questions, email info@earthrepairshop.org at least 48 hours before the event to give us time to respond.
👉Please note:
We are not a professional repair service, so please don’t bring us ‘fancy’ repairs like wedding dresses - just drop us a message if you’re not sure.
☕The cafe will be open serving cake and hot drinks, should you wish to purchase, but there is no pressure or expectation to buy.
💸 This is a FREE service! Donations are welcome but not expected.
💚 We'd love it if you could stay whilst we repair your items, our cafes are about building community connection and sharing skills too.
📆UPCOMING REPAIR CAFES 📆
Our final Ilfracombe Repair Cafe of 2024 will be:
17th November
Keep an eye on our Facebook page and check back here on our What's On page for updates about each event and more upcoming Repair Cafes at different locations throughout North Devon.
🙋♀️VOLUNTEER WITH US🙋♀️
We are always on the lookout for a few more volunteers, either to share their mending skills at the Cafes or to help out behind the scenes and welcome people on the day. You don’t need to be a professional seamstress or upholsterer or mechanic to volunteer - just someone with some basic skills who is happy to share what they know or a friendly welcoming face to help run the event. There is no pressure to undertake any repairs that you are not confident with.
Please get in touch with us on info@earthrepairshop.org if you would like to get involved.