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Repair Cafe Forest Row
21 February @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
The Forest Row Repair Cafe aims to help reduce waste by encouraging a repair culture in our community. A repair can save time, money and waste.
The Forest Row Repair Cafe is held in The Forest Row Community Centre, Hartfield Road, Forest Row on the 3rd Saturday of every month except December.
Items we can repair include electrical, fabrics, computers, bikes, wood work, small furniture items, clocks, ceramics and inflatables.
Whilst you wait for a repairer we have a delicious cafe for you to enjoy a cup of tea or coffee and a piece of homemade cakes made by our volunteer team.
What are the items that are brought most frequently to the Forest Row Repair Café?
Customers bring in an enormous variety of items for repair each month – everything from lawn mowers to CD payers, wristwatches and precious vases. But over the years we’ve noticed a pattern emerging, and overall the items that we see most frequently are toasters, coffee makers and vacuum cleaners.
Some brands are easier to fix than others, and for many it’s possible to source spare parts online. Generally, the customer will order these and bring the item back the next month to have the parts fitted. In other cases it’s simply a matter of small adjustments, or helping the customer understand the device more thoroughly. That applies especially to laptops and tablet computers.
Developments on the world stage affect what we buy and how we treat our belongings. For example, electric heaters have begun to appear more frequently at Repair Cafés since the recent sharp rise in gas prices.
