International Repair Day at the Grand Arcade

Sat 19 Oct 2024, 1:00pm – 4:00pm

Why recycle when you can repair? We’ll be joining repair groups around the world on 19 Oct, International Repair Day, to help fix people’s broken stuff and share repair skills.

Our International Repair Day Repair Café will be on the first floor in the Grand Arcade in the “Let’s Go Circular” unit next to the Raspberry Pi shop.

Experienced Cambridge Repair Café volunteers will work together with volunteers from local company Sentec – a Xylem Brand – to help fix your broken and worn toys and gadgets, jewellery, clothes, electricals and all sorts of household items. We’ll do our best to fix your item but if we can’t, we’ll try and suggest a next step.

We strongly recommend booking your item in advance – this enables us to do background research and make sure we have the most appropriately skilled repairer working on your item. We’ll keep a few walk-in repair slots for the day, and will do our best to fit your item in if you are unable to book in advance.

** Bookings for this Repair Cafe are now closed**

Please note: We won’t be taking on TVs or microwaves as we won’t have a specialist on the team. And we don’t usually take on mobile phone or tablet repairs as there are several repair businesses nearby.

Our Repair Cafés are free events, but we are grateful for any donations (cash please, we don’t have a card reader) so we can cover our costs and keep our toolkit fully resourced.

If you can’t make it to central Cambridge on 19 October, there are Repair Cafés at Haddenham and Cottenham on that day too, and at Soham on 20 Oct.

For times, venues and booking details for other Cambs Repair Cafés please check Cambridge Carbon Footprint https://cambridgecarbonfootprint.org/what-we-do/repair-cafes/visit-a-repair-cafe/

Accessibility details for the Grand Arcade (parking, lifts, toilets etc) are here: https://www.accessable.co.uk/cambridgeshire/cambridgeshire-county-council/access-guides/grand-arcade#7ac75ce0-1dd9-9940-a588-c3cae433405a

Location
The Grand Arcade, St Andrew’s Street Cambridge CB2 3BJ