Join the repair revolution! 🌍💚 Come along anytime 11am-2pm to Hand:Plant Cafe and Delta on Ilfracombe High Street to bring your items back to life, learn new skills, save money and the planet!
THIS IS A FREE SERVICE!
From 2025, Ilfracombe Repair Cafe is now operated by the wonderful Earth Repair Shop team with support from us at Plastic Free North Devon.
Skills sharing:
Their skilled repairers are on hand to share their skills with you to take home - you can learn basic sewing, knitwear patching, visible mending and how to service your bike!
Repairs:
⚙️Sewing machine repairs eg tension adjustment and other small mechanicals
🚲 Basic bike repairs
🧵 General repairs, eg all and sundry - message info@earthrepairshop.org to check if you have a specific query!
👚 Textiles, eg replace zips and buttons (bring your own zips and buttons), simple alterations, visible darning
🧶 Knitting and crochet, wool garments, blankets, toys etc
💍 Basic jewellery repairs, eg twisted jump rings, restringing
However, as they rely on volunteers, they can't always guarantee that all these skills will be available at every event - If you have any questions, email info@earthrepairshop.org at least 48 hours before the event to give them time to respond.
👉Please note:
This is not a professional repair service, so please don’t bring ‘fancy’ repairs like wedding dresses - just drop Earth Repair Shop message if you’re not sure (see above email address).
☕The cafe will be open serving cake and hot drinks, should you wish to purchase, but there is no pressure or expectation to buy.
💸 This is a FREE service! Donations for the Earth Repair Shop are welcome but not expected.
💚 They’d love it if you could stay whilst they repair your items, Repair Cafes are about building community connection and sharing skills too.
📆UPCOMING ILFRACOMBE REPAIR CAFES 📆
Sunday 16th March
Sunday 18th May
Sunday 13th July
Sunday 21st September
Sunday 16th November
Can’t make any of these or looking to find one closer to you? Check out our What’s Calendar for all of our Repair Cafes in South Molton, Landkey, Bishops Tawton, Barnstaple and Braunton plus ones hosted by others too: 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@earthrepairshop.org if you would like to get involved.
🙏THANKS AND FUTURE PLANS🙏
Our Ilfracombe Repair Cafe has been a partnership project, part of Plastic Free North Devon’s expanding Repair Cafe network, hosted by Hand:Plant Cafe and Delta in Ilfracombe. For 2025 onwards, the brilliant Earth Repair Shop team will now be taking over running the events. Ilfracombe Repair Cafe has also been made possible thanks to support from Ilfracombe Town Council, hand:plant and of course, all of the incredible volunteers and the local community.
Thanks to previous funding from the Post Code Lottery, NatureSave funding and 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.