CHAILEY REPAIR CAFÉ BEGINS ITS 7th YEAR BY FLOATING A BOAT!
As Chailey Repair Café enters our 7th year of repairing broken stuff for the community, we have another moving story to tell you……
During the Second World War, a US sailor carefully built a model sailing boat for his little daughter. She eventually came to the UK and settled here with her husband and family and the boat was put away in the loft, where it was forgotten about for 55 years. Her husband thought it would be a good idea to have it restored to bring it back to life again. He brought it to Chailey Repair Café, where the combined efforts of our General Repairs and Fabrics team rebuilt the boat – the couple were delighted and the boat, which brought back many happy memories, now has pride of place in their house. Don’t miss the “before and after” photos, which will be posted soon on Chailey Repair Café’s Facebook page.
We now have a huge stock of specialist tools and many spares which enable us to tackle some really obscure items and will be happy to try to repair your stuff and rekindle those memories!!
Chailey Repair Café is part of a world-wide movement where volunteer experts repair things free of charge – although a donation towards running costs is invited. Anyone can bring along broken items or clothing needing repair from home, and have a cuppa and a cake and then watch while your repair is done in front of you..
You’ll find us at St Peter’s Church, Chailey on the A275 at Chailey Green on the second Saturday of each month (10th August, 14th September , 12th October and so on) between 1000hrs and 1300hrs where we have a full Café service including our legendary cakes! We get very busy nowadays, so please don’t leave it until the last minute to call in !!!!
Not sure if we can fix your broken item? Contact us at chaileyrc@gmail.com and we’ll see what we can do to help.
See you very soon!!
Bryan McAlley and the Chailey Repair Café team
