CHAILEY REPAIR CAFÉ – OVER 800 REPAIRS AND AN AWARD THIS YEAR!!
As we get ready for our final Repair Café of 2025 at St Peter’s Church on 13th December, we are looking forward to our 8th year of repairing your broken stuff. Incredibly, we attempted over 800 repairs this year and over 7000 items since we first opened our doors in 2018. We were delighted to receive an award this year from Lewes District Council in recognition of our service to the community
We always get a lot of Christmas tree lights coming in at this time of year – if you have the old-style lights with push in bulbs, we may be able to help with spares, but there are many different types, so at worst we can tell you what to look for and where to find them… And of course, our sharpening team will be busy, as always, at Christmas. We now have two state-of-the-art sharpening machines to sort out those knives ready for the turkey!
Our new posters and flyers with all our 2026 dates are now available at the Café; pick some up and spread the word wherever you live!
The success of Chailey Repair Café has been due in great measure to the support we have received from all of you in the local community – if you didn’t have broken stuff, we’d have nothing to do! We have saved a lot of things from finding their way into landfill and provided an opportunity for folks to understand more about what makes their household items work!
PLEASE NOTE! St Peter’s Church is having some well-deserved refurbishment from January onwards. Chailey Repair Café will be moving back to Chailey Village Hall, (next to the Five Bells just 500 yards down the road from the Church) from 10th January until the work in the church is completed.
You’ll find us there on the second Saturday of each month (i.e. 10th Jan, 14th Feb, 14 March and so on) between 1000hrs and 1300hrs where we’ll have a full Café service including our legendary cakes.
If you’d like to contact us, please email us at chaileyrc@gmail.com and we’ll see what we can do to help.
We look forward to seeing you and your broken stuff very soon and wish you all a happy and successful New Year!
Bryan McAlley and the Chailey Repair Café team
