Published: September 2025

Sustainable Bucklebury will be holding our first Repair Cafe on 11 October 2025.

Repair Cafes can be used to get help fixing items you own without having to dispose of them, reducing waste and saving money.

We will be using this first "taster" event to gauge interest and hopefully set us up for running regularly in the future.

• Saturday 11 October 2025 from 10:00 until 12:00 (last entry at 11:30am please)
• The Oak Room, Broad Lane, Upper Bucklebury, RG7 6QH (next to the main hall)

We will be offering the following:

• Small Electrical
• Small Mechanical
• Sewing Repairs
• IT Advice / Laptop/PC Issues
• Knife / Tool Sharpening
• Woodworking / Small items of furniture
• Basic Bike Repairs (gears/cables/tubes)
• Community cafe

If you would like to bring an item in for repair please let us know in advance using our Repair Cafe form

If you would like to help at the event please let us know.

Please note that we will not be able to help with all items so use our form to let us know in advance what you would like to bring along.  Some items that are excluded from repair include:

• Large applicances
• Heavy or bulky objects
• Fuel power equipment (no petrol or gas powered items)
• Hazardous items (no high voltages or lithium battery repairs)
• Specialised Repairs (e.g. welding, professional clothes alterations, complex bike repairs)
• Very valuable items (all items are repaired at your own risk)

Bucklebury Repair Cafe House Rules

You must agree to our house rules to bring any item in for repair:

• The work carried out in the Repair Café is performed free of charge on a voluntary basis by the Repairers at hand.
• Visitors carry out the repairs themselves whenever possible, but Repairers on site can help if necessary.
• The fact that the repairs are being performed by unpaid volunteers reflects the allocation of risks and limitation of liability: neither the organisers of the Repair Café nor the Repairers are liable for any loss that may result from advice or instructions concerning repairs, for the loss of items handed over for repair, for indirect or consequential loss or for any other kind of loss resulting from work performed in the Repair Café. The limitations set forth in these house rules shall not apply to claims declared justified on the basis of liability arising by virtue of applicable consumer protection legislation which cannot be lawfully superseded.
• A voluntary donation is greatly appreciated.
• Any use of new materials such as leads, plugs, fuses or applications will be paid for separately.
• Visitors offering broken items for repair do so at their own risk.
• Experts making repairs offer no guarantee for the repairs carried out with their help and are not liable if objects that are repaired in the Repair Café turn out not to work properly at home.
• Repairers are entitled to refuse to repair certain objects.
• Repairers are not obliged to reassemble disassembled appliances that cannot be repaired.
• Visitors to Repair Café are solely responsible for the tidy removal of broken objects that could not be repaired.
• To cut down on unnecessary waiting times during busy periods, a maximum of ONE broken item per person will be examined. The visitor will join the back of the queue if there is a second item for repair