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Bracknell Repair Cafe
Welcome to the Bracknell Repair Café
A new Repair Cafe is coming to Bracknell and will be located at St Andrews Church in Priestwood.
We aim to open our doors later in the year, in September/October 2026.
Our Repair Cafe will be run by local volunteers who want to help their community repair their broken items. The Repair Cafe initiative started in the Netherlands in 2009, and there are now over 2,500 Repair Cafes worldwide, with 450 or so in the UK.
Our Cafe will open once per month on a Saturday and will be a place where clothes, furniture, electrical appliances, bicycles, crockery, and toys can be repaired by volunteers and you working together.
Our Cafe is both a community service and an opportunity for our volunteers to help others and share their knowledge. There is no charge for the repair although customers may have to provide parts where required, and donations are accepted to help with running costs.
Volunteers Needed !
The Bracknell Repair Cafe is now actively recruiting local volunteers.
We are looking for local volunteer fixers who can repair small domestic electrical and mechanical items such as Kettles, Coffee Makers, Vacuum Cleaners, Lamps, Sewing Machines, Record Players, Bikes and Furniture etc as well as Fixers who can repair textiles, clothes and soft toys, and anyone who would like to offer their specialist skills to the local community.
We are also looking for volunteers to help with the smooth running of the cafe.
If you're interested in helping to create the Bracknell Repair Cafe, please email: bracknellrepaircafe@outlook.com for further details and to register your interest or visit us at our stand this years local events.
You can also register your interest directly using the following link
Latest News
Work on bringing the Bracknell Repair Café continues, and we are now pleased to welcome a member of Warfield Parish onto the Café Management Team.
We again had a good response from the Warfield Reduce, Reuse and Recycle event and were pleased to meet the team from Wokingham’s Repair Café. We have now received expressions of interest from almost 40 local volunteers and are now planning our first volunteer workshop on the 6th June, between 10:30 and 12:30 hrs at St Andrews Church, to introduce the Repair Café Concept and decide on our next steps. You should have received an invite to this workshop from Ian. If you have not, please let us know.
While our charity application is still with the Charity Commission, we are continuing to get ready for our start-up. This includes working on our policies and procedures necessary to keep everyone safe, and for which we will be seeking your input at the workshop on the 6th June. We have also put together a start-up budget and equipment list, which we will share at the workshop, and we are actively seeking community funding and in-kind support for the project. We have had positive discussions with two local organisations, and we are confident that we will have the funds necessary to launch the case
If you or your organisation would also like to contribute to the start-up of the Repair Cafe, please also get in touch, and we can share our start-up equipment listing. We will need a wide range of equipment to ensure the cafe can operate safely and successfully.
We still need more volunteers and trustees, so if you are interested in helping get the cafe off the ground or know anyone else who would also be interested, please get in touch and come along to our workshop to find out more.
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Bracknell Repair Cafe