Monthly volunteer-led repair cafe where people bring electronics, clocks, jewellery and sewing items to be fixed by volunteers, with a donation asked.
Repair Cafe Weymouth is back at Top Club on Saturday 12 December. It's a volunteer-led repair cafe where you bring in things that have packed up and let a team of volunteers have a go at fixing them for you. It's run by Weymouth Town Council, which puts on more than 150 events across the area's facilities and natural venues throughout the year, so it's part of a much bigger local programme.
On the day, around 15 repairers are on hand to tackle electronics, IT, mechanical items, clocks, jewellery and sewing, with another 15 volunteers supporting them. That's a fair bit of ground covered, from a glitchy laptop or a broken lamp to a loose hem or a clock that's stopped ticking. It's the kind of thing that usually ends up in the bin because it's too small to bother with or too fiddly to fix yourself, so it's a good excuse to clear out the 'broken' drawer.
The cafe is part of the UK Community Repair Network, a growing network of community groups running local repair events and helping others start their own. It sits alongside a global movement calling for 'The Right to Repair', which argues that everyone should have the right to fix the products they own and wants to change the regulations on how devices are made. One of the network's partners is the Restart Project, which teaches people how to repair broken electronics and campaigns for that same Right to Repair.
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It's a monthly thing, usually on the second Saturday of the month except for July and August, so if you can't make this one, there's usually another one not far behind. There's no charge for the repair, only a donation asked, and it's held at Top Club on Louviers Road, Weymouth DT3 6AY.
