Repair Cafe Wales opens & supports repair cafés across Wales.
In their simplest form, repair cafés are pop up events located on regular dates where the local community can get their broken household items repaired for free by volunteers.
The types of things we fix include clothes, household electrics, technology, woodwork, children’s toys, furniture, bikes.
Our Values
Waste Reduction
Repair cafés help household items be used for longer rather than throwing them away. This reduces the volume of raw materials and energy needed to make new products. It cuts CO2 emissions by reusing instead of manufacturing new products.
Sharing Skills
By promoting a repairing culture and inviting each one of our visitors to sit with a volunteer repairer, repair cafés show appreciation for the people who have practical knowledge and ensure these valuable skills are getting passed on.
Community Cohesion
Repair cafés promote social cohesion in the community by connecting local residents from very different backgrounds and with different motives with each other through an inspiring and low-key event.
Repair Cafe Wales Board
We have a very far ranging board, each who bring their own expertise and experience to help grow Repair Cafe Wales.
Joe O’Mahoney
Co-Founder & Chair – Strategy
Cerys Jones
Co-Founder & Company Secretary – Operations
Karen Dancey
Director – Marketing
John McCrory
Director – PR & Events
Phoebe Brown
Director – Funding & Events
Patrons
We are very lucky to have such distinguished partrons supporting Repair Cafe Wales.
Valerie Wood-Gaiger
MBE
Professor Tom Crick
MBE
Partners
We work closely with the organisations below in a number of ways including co-hosting events, fixing / donating / borrowing items, mentoring, managing time credit schemes, analysing repair data, upskilling individuals, hosting repair cafés, providing volunteering opportunities and working together to promote the ‘make do and mend’ culture.
