Our biggest Repair cafe to date?
We were very pleased to have the chance to use a larger than usual venue for our latest repair cafe, held at Shelford Rugby Club on 15th July 2023. We made good use of the available space by combining the repair cafe with a SWISH (clothes swap).
This seemed to work out well – we had room for more repairers, and that meant that we were able to accept all the items brought in on the day as well as the booked-in items, with very few needing to wait more than a few minutes to see a repairer.
The overall success rate for repairs was 72%, which is a pretty good result – you can see the overall impact of our efforts on the Restarters’ “Fixometer” website.
The SWISH did well too, with a good quantity of clothing donated, most of which found new owners very quickly! the remaining items have been donated to the Arthur Rank Hospice Charity.