North Hampshire Repair Café

We are a team of talented repairers repairing & recycling as much as we can

Repair Reuse Relove

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Come along meet the team and show your support at our next event. Booking a spot will help us help you by understanding likely numbers and requirements.

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Where

Sherfield

When

Sep 30th
10am-1pm

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About

About Repair Café

Happy Clients

Replacement costs saved

Kg of Greenhouse Gases

Kg landfill avoided

How Repair Cafe Works

What is Repair Café?

We throw away vast amounts of stuff. Even things with almost nothing wrong, which could get a new lease on life after a simple repair. The trouble is, lots of people have forgotten that they can repair things themselves or they no longer know how. Knowing how to make repairs is a skill quickly lost. Repair Café changes all that! People who might otherwise be sidelined are getting involved again. Valuable practical knowledge is getting passed on. Things are being used for longer and don’t have to be thrown away. This reduces the volume of raw materials and energy needed to make new products. It cuts CO2 emissions, for example, because manufacturing new products causes CO2 to be released.

Change mindsets

  • Recycle
  • Reuse
  • Relove
  • Help Save the Planet

Repair Café teaches people to see their possessions in a new light. And, once again, to appreciate their value. Repair Café helps change people’s mindset. This is essential to kindle people’s enthusiasm for a sustainable society. But most of all, Repair Café just wants to show how much fun repairing things can be, and how easy it often is. Why don’t you give it a go?

toaster repair
Our Mission

To cultivate awareness of the bigger picture and of the pronounced impact reuse has on the environment, on personal well-being, and on our community's resiliency;
To cultivate motivation to extend the life of the things we have through repair; and
To cultivate the capacity to repair, through learning to fix things ourselves, or finding out how and where to have them repaired.

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Our Plan

Introduce Repair Café's to North Hampshire. Extending and enhancing the current network of venues and dates.

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Our Vision

To bring practical, low cost, repairs to people. Extending the life of everyday objects.
To reduce the amount of things going into landfill.
To reduce the amount of new things we need to buy.

Suporters

Organisations helping us

Locations & Events

Where to find our events

Lychpit Community Centre

Lychpit map

The Lychpit Community Hall is a Grade II listed building in what used to be called Little Basing. Originally Lychpit Hall was the North Barn. This fabulous historic building has the most wonderful wooden framed ceiling, deep brick walls with the original vertical vents now glassed to provide daylight. The spacious hall is kept warm using under floor heating and the vaulted ceiling is complimented by individually adjustable lighting.

  • Airy and spacious hall with high vaulted ceiling.
  • Generous parking area next to hall (with wheelchair access).
  • Comprehensive Kitchen facilities.

Lychpit community centre

Outside view of the location. Directions available from Google maps.

Hartley Wintney

Hartley Wintney map
Hartley Wintney St Johns Church

Outside view of the location. Directions available from Google maps.

Car Park entrance is off A323 Fleet Road, not Green Lane. RG27 8ED

  • Easy Disabled Access
  • Free Parking
  • Catering Facilities

Sherfield Village Hall

Sherfield Village Hall map

Sherfield Village Hall

Outside view of the location. Directions available from Google maps.

  • Easy level access
  • Free Parking & EV Charger
  • Wifi and Kitchen Facilities

This pride of the community, sympathetically refurbished and easily accessible, is home to many classes, organised groups and local events.

Sherfield Park Community Centre

Sherfield Park Community Centre map

Sherfield Park Community Centre

Outside view of the location. Directions available from Google maps.

  • Easy level access
  • Free Parking
  • Wifi and Kitchen Facilities

Purpose Built Comunity Centre and easily accessible. Home to many classes, organised groups and local events.

Silchester

Silchester Village Hall map

Silchester Village Hall

Outside view of the location. Directions available from Google maps.

  • Easy level access
  • Free Parking
  • Wifi and Kitchen Facilities

The Village Hall situated close to the centre of the village opposite the cricket/football pitches and across the road from the Calleva Arms public house. It has provided the focus for many activities and functions for the past 85 year

Services

Our Services

Items we can't repair

Unfortunately we can't accept: Cane Furniture, Electric Blankets, Petrol Driven Items. Microwaves

Computers

Fault analysis on Computers. Simple repairs to laptops, desktops, tablets.

Small Electrical Appliances

Fault analysis and repair on things from coffee makers to toasters.

Clothes

Simple repairs on clothes

Furniture

Fixes and repairs on small items of furniture.

Garden Tools

Sharpen tweak and fettle.

Toys

Simple repairs for old and modern toys.

Bicycle

Simple repairs for bikes but please contact us in advance.

Jewelry

Sorry, no new diamonds but simple repairs for jewelry items.

"After my visit to Sherfield Repair Meeting last Saturday, I just want to let Gary know that my soup maker has just made perfect soup, and Simon know that my steam iron is working perfectly. Thank you so much to both of them for their patience." Dianne C

Kate Hope

I was SO impressed! It was extremely efficient and welcoming. We would be delighted if you were to return to Lychpit Hall in the future and are happy to do whatever we can to support your return. Thank you very much indeed for coming to Old Basing & Lychpit and for offering your excellent, talented services to our residents!

Helena Nicholson

I just want to say a HUGE thank you to Diana. She spent a ridiculous amount of hours fixing my son's 'unrepairable' toy cat and we're beyond grateful for the time spent, care and compassion she showed with the incredibly hard job of making Leo look just like Leo again. My son hasn't stopped smiling and cuddling Leo since he received him back in Friday. What a kind and lovely lady Diana is. I hope she knows how grateful and thrilled we are, but I just wanted to thank her again via your site. You all do a great job, and we're lucky to have you in our area. Thank you.

Vanessa

Very many thanks to you and your wonderful team for organising the Repair Cafe in Silchester yesterday. Everyone that I have spoken to was very happy, and delighted with the repairs that your team were able to carry out. I've published a few of the photos that we took from today on our Facebook and Instagram pages: https://www.facebook.com/sustainablesilchester/posts/pfbid0Us2nXCc91LZVn8NnSMfTYmUgsDnCZrKubWSronfTQc16hLJr56EWtsEW4XFJ2BXWl We do hope that you will consider visiting Silchester again!!!

Pictures

Some of our recent activity

  • All
  • Odiham Event
  • Hartley Wintney Event
  • Sherfield Event
  • Sherfield Park Event
  • Silchester Event
  • Electricals
  • Fabrics
  • Other
bench

Bench

Renewed Slats

Cactus

Dancing Cactus

Why?

Clock

Clock

Overwound?

kettle

Kettle

Testing the electrics

Lamp

Lamp

Lamp repair

vacuum cleaner

Rewire

fixing a vacuum cleaner wire

Welcome to the Repair Cafe

Welcome

Wecome to the Odiham Repair Cafe

Team

Team

Team outside Odiham library

Axe

Axe

Fixing an axe handle

derek

Derek

Our first cafe

dyson

Dyson Vacuum Repair

Sorted out clogged pipe

jane

Happy customer

Working again

Ranil

MP, Ranil Jayawardena

Our local MP pops in to see the repair cafe in action

Ranil

Ranil & Derek

Happy days

lamp

Old Lamp

interesting old lamp just requires a bit of TLC

clock

Clock

Examining a clock

lamp

Mixer

Small handheld mixer

cd player

CD Player

CD Player needing a new drive belt

Sherfield Team

Team

Volunteers at Sherfield

cd player

Reception

A warm welcome awaits

cd player

Busy day

Lots of people

cd player

Clock

Big Clock but simple fix

lights

Various Lamps

Rewiring required

stuffed rabbit

Stuffed Rabbit

Just needs a bit of tlc and a lot of skilled needlework

Stuffed Rabbit

Diana explains how the rabbit got back together

lights

Repairs are fun

sharpening

Sharpening

Getting a keen edge

team

The Team

Sherfield Park Repair Team

Sherfield

Busy day at Sherfield

Sherfield coping with the rush

clock

Clock

Clock missing teeth

mower

Mower

Looking forward to spring

mixer

Mixer

New part required

lights

Reindeer and Sleigh

Now working again

Statue

Statue

Racing again

volunteers

Three of our latest Volunteers

Hard at work (play)

heater

Oil Filled radiator

new parts, good to go

till

Till

Florence happy (permission to include photo given)

team silchester

Team

Team at Silchester

Soldering

Gary soldering very very very fine wires on headphone

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Disco lighting

Fitting new hall effect switch

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Busy in Silchester

Everyone hard at it

team silchester

Deputy Mayor Visiting

Deputy Mayoyor and Mayoress

Team

Check out our Team. You may see others on the day!

Derek

Derek

Keen DIYer and all round repairer of household stuff.
Ian

Ian

Electrical guru
Tim

Norman

General mechanical and electrical repairs, and Mr Fixit.
James

James

Clocks, watches, vacuum cleaners. musical instruments
Sheila

Sheila

Superb sewing
Simon

Simon

Technology Tamer
Frank

Frank

General repairs and glass specialist
John

John

Sharpest tool in the box
Diana

Diana

Sew good
Andrew

Andrew

Vastley experienced in general and electrical repairs
Jonathan

Jonathan

General, electrical repairs and computers
Ian

Ian

Repairs pretty much anything mechanical or electrical
Sarah

Sarah

Repairs clothing, soft toys and textiles.
Sarah

Simon

Repairs all sorts.
New Person

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We're looking for more volunteers. Have a chat to find out more.

Contact

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info@nhrc.uk

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