Newbury And Thatcham Repair Café

31st August 2025 – 10.00 – 12.30

If you’ve been to a Repair Café before, you know the drill!

They can repair electrical items, electronic gadgets, clothing, textiles, soft toys, jewellery, and other household objects and more…

Free.

Newbury and Thatcham Repair Cafe holds events where visitors bring items for repair such as electronic and electrical goods, clothes and textiles, pottery, wood items, toys, etc. 

 Mobile phone and IT advice is available.  

Tools and blades e.g. scissors and secateurs can also be sharpened.

Volunteers repair items with the visitors, if those repairs are feasible. 

Repairs are free but they appreciate donations to fund future events.

On arrival at the event venue, please check-in your initial item inside the Hall where your item and its weight will be recorded – this is so we can calculate how much waste has been saved. 

You may bring more than 1 item (exception for sharpening: 2 large items or 3 small, e.g. scissors, items) but you will check-in one item at a  time and have that assessed and repaired if feasible. 

If there is time later in the session when your first item has been repaired, then you may rejoin the check-in queue and have another item repaired.

For safety reasons, all mains-powered items must be PAT tested before any repair can take place. 

All mains-powered items must be PAT tested again after repair, even if the item has not been fixed.

The Repair Cafe runs events about once a month, usually towards the end of the month,  alternating between Newbury and Thatcham.

 Please register your item at Check-in inside the Hall before 4p.m. to give time for the repair (if feasible) to take place.