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Grab a cup of tea or coffee while volunteer repairers fix your broken items for free<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Repairers at the November Repair Cafe event (Image via Repair Cafe Wales<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n

The Repair Caf\u00e9 is a meeting that brings local volunteers together to fix broken items for free and it will be coming to The Table caf\u00e9 in Cardiff the first Saturday of every month.<\/p>\n

The Table is a church-turned-caf\u00e9 located in Cathays which has hosted the event since April of this year.<\/p>\n

Handy volunteers gather together in local meeting places to fix up broken items in a bid reduce waste and actively prevent perfectly good things from going to the landfill.<\/p>\n

The concept was brought to life in Amsterdam back in 2009 and has since spread worldwide, with over 1,300 groups in 33 countries<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Caf\u00e9 volunteer and minister Rob Morse explained that there are two main purposes behind the event as they interpret it in Cardiff.<\/p>\n

The first is to \u201creduce landfill\u201d and unnecessary waste, and the second is to create a space for people\u00a0who might be vulnerable, quiet, isolated or in need of companionship to come and have conversations with the volunteers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe conversations that happen are just as important as the repairing,\u201d Rob said.<\/p>\n

A whole host of items have been fixed since April, with everything from garden shredders to toasters. Rob says, \u201cOn any given Repair Caf\u00e9 day, we\u2019ll probably have around 15 to 16 repairers,\u201d he continues, \u201cthey\u2019ll be experts in IT, electrical goods and carpentry,\u201d to name a few.<\/p>\n

Rob also said that lots of seamstresses volunteer and fix up clothes that may have otherwise been thrown out. Bikes and jewelry have also been successfully repaired, and at last month’s repair cafe event, a cross-trainer was given a new lease of life.<\/p>\n

The Repair Cafe’s website<\/a> explains that attendees going to the meet-ups can also learn from the volunteer repairers they meet to\u00a0get involved and try to be less wasteful in future.<\/p>\n

While all the repairs are done free of charge, you can donate money to the repairers if you wish.<\/p>\n

And if you’d rather do something for your repairer you can, just as Rob says, “Be a little more personal with your repairer and go buy them a coffee or a piece of cake.”<\/p>\n

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A slice of chocolate cake from The Table’s menu<\/p><\/div>\n

With over 50 items repaired last month, the Repair Cafe appears to be going from strength to strength in Cardiff.<\/p>\n

But, as Rob explains, the event is about more than actively fixing broken things and reducing waste, “We\u2019re about repairing the soul, or repairing the person, as well as the product or item.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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