With support from the Parish Council and Community Forum, SPAD has set up a Village Repair Café to run once a month, where people can bring their broken items to be mended. This is to save money and cut down on waste. The Repair Café movement started in the Netherlands in 2009 and there are lots of cafés now in the UK including several in the Bristol area.
The first Pill Repair Café will be held on Saturday 16 October 2021 from 10.30am - 12.30pm at the Community Centre, Church Place, Pill, BS20 0AE. Thereafter, we aim to hold the event on the second Saturday each month, Coronavirus restrictions permitting. All being well, the second one will be held on Saturday 13 November 2021.
Items must be portable, and capable of being repaired while you wait and observe and perhaps learn some new skills! You will have a chance to enjoy a cuppa and perhaps a bacon/egg roll and to catch up with friends whilst you wait for your turn. In the interests of your safety and those of others, we are asking you to where a mask where possible.
We already have volunteers willing and able to carry out sewing repairs, woodworking and jewellery repairs and some electricals, but the more the merrier! What better way to renew and re-use and avoid excesses going to landfill?
Do you know how to mend things? Maybe you can mend a kettle, a toaster, a radio, a wobbly table-leg, glue the head back on a toy, mend a puncture on a bike or patch up some jeans?
Can you spare a few hours a month to help other villagers by repairing their small household objects, in a friendly café environment?
If you have skills to add to the list and would be happy to volunteer, please get in touch. (We’d be particularly keen to hear from anyone else who is able to help with small electrical repairs and/or someone who has access to a PAT testing machine we could hire/borrow for one day a month.) We would also like to hear from anyone who could help with general organisation/support on the day. If you are interested, please contact Rachel Harvey at sustainablepill@gmail.com.
The first Pill Repair Café will be held on Saturday 16 October 2021 from 10.30am - 12.30pm at the Community Centre, Church Place, Pill, BS20 0AE. Thereafter, we aim to hold the event on the second Saturday each month, Coronavirus restrictions permitting. All being well, the second one will be held on Saturday 13 November 2021.
Items must be portable, and capable of being repaired while you wait and observe and perhaps learn some new skills! You will have a chance to enjoy a cuppa and perhaps a bacon/egg roll and to catch up with friends whilst you wait for your turn. In the interests of your safety and those of others, we are asking you to where a mask where possible.
We already have volunteers willing and able to carry out sewing repairs, woodworking and jewellery repairs and some electricals, but the more the merrier! What better way to renew and re-use and avoid excesses going to landfill?
Do you know how to mend things? Maybe you can mend a kettle, a toaster, a radio, a wobbly table-leg, glue the head back on a toy, mend a puncture on a bike or patch up some jeans?
Can you spare a few hours a month to help other villagers by repairing their small household objects, in a friendly café environment?
If you have skills to add to the list and would be happy to volunteer, please get in touch. (We’d be particularly keen to hear from anyone else who is able to help with small electrical repairs and/or someone who has access to a PAT testing machine we could hire/borrow for one day a month.) We would also like to hear from anyone who could help with general organisation/support on the day. If you are interested, please contact Rachel Harvey at sustainablepill@gmail.com.
