Kingsclere’s Repair Café, held once a month at the Fieldgate Centre, is a community-driven initiative aimed at promoting sustainability and reducing waste. Local residents can bring in broken household items—ranging from small electronics to clothes and furniture—and skilled volunteers will help repair them free of charge. This event not only empowers individuals to fix things instead of discarding them but also fosters a sense of togetherness and environmental consciousness. The Repair Café offers a valuable opportunity for residents to learn new skills, share knowledge, and contribute to a more sustainable future while enjoying a welcoming, social atmosphere.
Are you wanting to volunteer and be part of the repair cafe community? If so visit this page to get in contact.
If you would like to request a repair of an item that you would like to bring along, please register your interest via this page.
Repair Cafe Booking Form
Terms and Conditions
- All repairs carried out at the Kingsclere Repair Café are performed at the customer’s own risk. The advice and repair service is conducted by experienced volunteers and there is no charge, but donations are welcome to cover costs, the purchase of tools and equipment and the development of the service.
- PLEASE NOTE: Dangerous tools and equipment are present and sometimes used in repairs. Parents must exercise control over, and be responsible for, the behaviour of their children whilst attending the Kingsclere Repair Café.
- All customers are required to complete the booking form for Kingsclere Repair Café records before any repairs can be contemplated. Kingsclere Repair Café is GDPR compliant and all information provided is treated with the utmost confidence and never passed to a third party. A copy of our Privacy Policy is available on request.
- Neither the organisers of Kingsclere Repair Café nor the repairers in personal capacities or otherwise are liable for any loss or injury whatsoever that may result from any repair carried out or for any advice or instructions given and used at a later date.
- Neither the organisers of Kingsclere Repair Café nor the repairers in personal capacities or otherwise are liable for any accidental damage that may occur to either visitors’ goods or personal effects during visitors’ time at the sessions.
- The customer is responsible for providing any consumables such as leads, plugs, fuses, zips, etc. that may be needed to fully complete a repair.
- Repairers offer no guarantee for any repairs carried out with or without their help and are not liable if any repaired items do not work properly at home or break down again in the future.
- After making an initial assessment of an item, repairers are fully entitled to use their discretion and refuse to repair an item should they so decide.
- Customers are responsible for the removal of all items that cannot be repaired.
- We reserved the right to email customers regarding repair cafe but are naturally entitled to opt out on any occasion.
- Items will be examined on arrival in reception and Kingsclere Repair Café reserves the right to refuse to accept for repair any item that is considered too dangerous and/or damaged or obviously beyond repair. In particular, items that cannot be operated safely indoors (eg petrol-engined machinery) cannot be accepted.
- Kingsclere Repair Café takes no responsibility in any form whatever for any item, repaired or otherwise, once it has left the premises where the Repair Café session is taking place.
- Kingsclere Repair Café is run by the Kingsclere Community Centre registered charity 1168366