Join the repair revolution! - This is a FREE service!

Come along any time 10am-1pm at Barnstaple Library to bring your items back to life, learn new skills, save money and the planet!

This month we can offer the following repairs:

👖 Textiles
Such as replacing zips and buttons (bring your own zips and buttons), darning teddy bears, simple alterations, visible darning

📻 Small mechanical repairs
Such as clocks and toys

💍 Basic jewellery repairs
Includes silver smithing - however, these will not be able to be repaired on the day this time, but if you’d like to leave them, our incredible volunteer Lani is happy to work on them over the next month.

🧸 Soft toys
Such as traditional teddy bear repairs - again as above - you are invited to leave them for Lani to look at over the next few weeks.

However, as we rely on volunteers, we can't always guarantee that all these skills will be available.
If you have any questions, email info@plasticfreenorthdevon.org at least 48 hours before the event to give us time to respond.

👉Please note:

We are not a professional repair service, so please don’t bring us ‘fancy’ repairs like wedding dresses - just drop us a message if you’re not sure.

☕We will also be serving cake and hot drinks to keep you refreshed while you watch and learn. 

🧵If you are unsure on whether to bring an item or not - please email info@plasticfreenorthdevon.org and we will run it by our sewing stars to see what we can do.

💸 This is a FREE service! Donations are welcome but not expected.

💚 We'd love it if you could stay whilst we repair your items, our cafes are about building community connection and sharing skills too.

📆UPCOMING BARNSTAPLE REPAIR CAFES 📆

👀Keep and eye on our What’s On calendar for updates on what we can repair at each event, our new skills workshops (coming soon) and other Repair Cafes throughout North Devon

https://plasticfreenorthdevon.org/whats-on

🙋‍♀️VOLUNTEER WITH US🙋‍♀️
We are always on the lookout for a few more volunteers, either to share their mending skills at the Cafes or to help out behind the scenes and welcome people on the day. You don’t need to be a professional seamstress or upholsterer or mechanic to volunteer - just someone with some basic skills who is happy to share what they know or a friendly welcoming face to help run the event. There is no pressure to undertake any repairs that you are not confident with.
Please get in touch with us on info@plasticfreenorthdevon.org if you would like to get involved.

🙏THANKS AND FUTURE PLANS🙏
Our Barnstaple Repair Cafe is a partnership project, part of Plastic Free North Devon’s expanding Repair Cafe network, hosted by the Pannier Market. These are also made possible thanks to our stakeholders; NDVS, Barnstaple Rotary Club, 361 Energy, Barnstaple Library and North Devon with Ukraine, as well as support from Barnstaple Town Council and of course, our incredible volunteers and the local community.

Thanks to funding from the Post Code Lottery and NatureSave funding and previous funding from National Lottery Together For Our Planet Community Fund, and the support of North Devon towns and villages, we currently have repair cafes in Landkey, Braunton, South Molton, Ilfracombe, and Barnstaple.