Ruskin Road Repair Cafe

Hi, we are a small group setting up a repair cafe in Carshalton. Repair Cafés meet the need to share and repair; bringing new life to broken stuff, repairing our relationship to things.

Typically a product lifecycle follows the trend of Use, Bin, Replace. The lifetime of products is becoming shorter. Having our broken domestic gadgets fixed is increasingly tricky; skilled repairers are not easy to find, it can be costly and inconvenient. The repair café intercepts that trend.

At Ruskin Road Repair Cafe, we will invite people to bring their broken domestic products: everything from textiles and domestic electronics to bikes and furniture.

By sharing in the repairing, it will aim to exchange the knowledge and offer access to the tools involved in fixing. All of this whilst having a chat and cup of tea and hopefully piece of cake.

It promotes a dynamic means of connecting neighbours from diverse backgrounds. But we need some seed funding for our set up costs. These include insurance and hall rental, we have a bank of volunteers ready to get started and have agreed a venue.