A productive morning

So today we saw a great variety of items come through the door, including a metal detector, toy spider, fans, and bubble machine along with the more regular bikes, mixers and laptops. We had the Lord Mayor pop in between mayoral engagements and managed to help him fix his broken Kindle. In total we saw …

Jewellery fixer joins the team

This Saturday we’re really excited to welcome Barbara to to our fixing team, who can help people who have broken jewellery. So if you’ve got a necklace, bracelet or earrings in need of TLC, feel free to pop in and see if Barbara can show you how to fix it. (Please note that she doesn’t …

We’re raising funds

For the month of July, Repair Café Portsmouth is one of the options in the ‘Community Matters’/Green Token scheme at Waitrose in Southsea. So if you’re shopping for food in store, please do pick up a green token from the till area and vote for us. We’re currently raising funds to purchase our own PAT …

Repair Café Pop-Up

This Bank Holiday Monday, we’ll have a stall at St Mary’s annual May Fayre. It’s a great event, with so much for all the family to do, so come along and find us in the church building between 10am & 4pm. We’ll be spreading the word about the new project in the city, but we’ll …

We even fixed a snake!

After so much planning it was great to be live and fixing at Portsmouth’s first Repair Café. We had people come from across Portsmouth, and they brought all manner of things, which our 26 volunteers got busy fixing. It was great to have Vlad join the team and bring his amazing skills with leather. He …

Excited about April

We’re all really looking forward to the first Repair Café Portsmouth event on Saturday 21st April! We’ve been planning this for a few months now, and we had a fun and productive trial session in March. Here’s some of what we got up to: We’re partnering with the Community Cycle Centre so that you can …

Welcome to our new website!

After quite a few months of planning, we are delighted and extremely excited to announce the launch of our new website. So, we invite you to take a tour around our new website & connect with us on social media (Facebook and Twitter) to stay up to date on our news. We value your opinion …