Chorlton Repair Cafe

Who we are: 

Repair Cafés are free meeting places and they’re all about repairing things (together). In the place where a Repair Café is located, you’ll find tools and materials to help you make any repairs you need. On clothes, furniture, electrical appliances, bicycles, crockery, appliances, toys, et cetera. You’ll also find expert volunteers, with repair skills in all kinds of fields.

Visitors bring their broken items from home. Together with the specialists they start making their repairs in the Repair Café. It’s an ongoing learning process. If you have nothing to repair, you can enjoy a cup of tea or coffee. Or you can lend a hand with someone else’s repair job. You can also get inspired at the reading table – by leafing through books on repairs and DIY.

What would you be doing:

Love mending things? Want to save household items and clothes from landfill? Want to meet like-minded people? Get involved with Chorlton Repair Cafe!

We're Stitched Up, a Community Benefit Society, a small a Not-for-Profit with the aim of inspiring action on sustainable fashion. We set up the first Manchester Repair Cafe in Chorlton and since then have run the Stretford Repair Cafe. We're now back in Chorlton and excited to re-establish this great Repair Cafe.

The idea of a Repair Cafe is to be a friendly meeting place where knowledge about how to mend items can be shared, in the hopes that people leave with not only a mended item but perhaps more knowledge about how to fix it themselves next time and items stay in use rather than ending up in landfill! 

If you have some fixing skills - from electronics to textiles to household items to bikes (or anything else!), we'd love to hear from you. We're also always looking for general volunteers to help with check-in, making teas/coffees and just be a friendly face so there's really no experience required to get involved and it can be a great way to learn from other volunteers and develop your own skills as well. We're also looking for anyone interested in getting involved in the behind-the-scenes elements of the Repair Cafe, such as promotion, organisation, fundraising, recruitmement etc...

When: The Repair Cafe runs once a month on the second Saturday of the month 10 - 12pm. We ask that volunteers arrive a bit earlier (9:30am) to allow for time for set up. 

Where: The Repair Cafe is located St Margaret's Community Centre, 136 Brantingham Rd M21 0TT