Repair Cafe Organisers Hub

We send a monthly newsletter on the first Thursday of the month to our register of well over 100 experienced volunteer repairers in Cambridgeshire. The newsletter includes a list of upcoming Repair Cafes that are seeking repairers and a form that allows repairers to sign up to offer their support. We recommend that you include a request for repairers 3 months ahead of your Repair Cafe. Please email repairnetwork@cambridgecarbonfootprint.org to put in your request. You can ask for repairers with all types of skills or you can put in specific requests e.g. for a PAT tester or sewer. We have a duty of care to our volunteers so will only recruit repairers for organising groups who have completed our “How to run a Repair Cafe in your community” training and have insurance in line with our recommendations below.

Our Cambridgeshire network is growing, meaning that our central pool of repairers is increasingly stretched supporting more and more Repair Cafes. The best way to ensure the long term sustainability of your Repair Cafe is to recruit repairers locally as well as asking for support from our centralised list. We ask experienced repairers to prioritise first time Repair Cafes so your first Repair Cafe is a great chance to have new local repairers mentored. There are some  repairer recruitment resources here that you are welcome to use and customise. Asking existing local repairers to ask around their friends and colleagues for others with relevant skills is also a great way to grow a repair base. You can direct anyone who is interested in becoming a repairer to our Repair with us page where they can find details of how to get involved. If repairers want to support other Repair Cafes in Cambridgeshire as well as yours, they are welcome to join our Repairers Register.