Chailey Repair Cafe – June Press Release
CHAILEY REPAIR CAFÉ – WE’LL FIX ALMOST ANYTHING!!!
Our May Repair Café brought us a huge range of challenges – we restrung a violin, repaired several irons, tackled your mowers and strimmers, sharpened your garden tools, fixed a broken teapot, persuaded a cuckoo clock to cuckoo again, repaired a garden parasol, mended your clothing and much, much more…
This was all in a day’s work for our team of 28 talented volunteers, who tackled all those repairs in 3 hours, with an impressive 78% success rate. With visitors from all over West and East Sussex and Kent our reputation is spreading!!
We now have a good line in Repair Café “merchandise”! Our 2025 posters and flyers are now across the region – if you would like to help us by display a few around your area, you can collect them at the Repair Café, together with car stickers and our much sought after bamboo pens!
We are often invited to make presentations to local groups about the work of Repair Cafes worldwide and Chailey’s in particular – if you would like to arrange a presentation (usually less than 1 hour) or run a display at an event with which you are involved, do get in touch and we’ll see what we can do……
We were delighted to receive a Certificate from Lewes District Council recently in recognition of the work we have done for the local community over the past 7 years.
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 repairs 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 (14th June, 12th July, 9th August and so on) between 1000hrs and 1300hrs where we have a full Café service including our legendary cakes! We get busy, so please be patient if you have to wait for a while!
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
