First Repair Cafe opens in Hemel Hempstead
The first Repair Cafe opened in Grovehill Community Centre on Saturday Hemel Hempstead now has its own Repair Centre. Local residents can bring along their small electrical items, phones and laptops, bicycles even typewriters to be repaired
Hemel's first Repair Cafe opened on Saturday at Grovehill Community Centre. Hemel Hempstead now has its own Repair Centre.
Local residents can bring along their small electrical items, phones, laptops, wooden furniture, bicycles and even typewriters to be repaired.
On Saturday, these very happy local people had their favourite tops, lamps and radios brought back to tip top condition.
Haylea was so pleased to see her cherished top with two new seams and sequins back in place that she gave a generous donation.
Margaret was thrilled to get her typewriter back up and running with the carriage no longer catching.
Two mobile phones which had problems with sound and displays were repaired and a laptop with a battery bracket rattling around inside was fixed, it could have caused overheating and sparks inside so was caught just in time.
Everyone gave a donation they were happy with to help with the running costs of the Repair Cafe.
Grovehill Repair Cafe is a community initiative from Community Action Dacorum and local volunteers eager to bring back a culture of repair that has all but disappeared in a throwaway world.
Come along on the first Saturday of the month to Grovehill Community Centre to meet the team, have a coffee and a snack in the cafe and get your fix!