Our Repair Café team has had another busy year as well as increasing both our membership and the services we offer. We visited Upper Tean, Butterton and Brown Edge in addition to our usual visits to Foxlowe Arts Centre and Haregate Community Centre in Leek.
Thanks to funding from the North Staffordshire Community Fund, we were able to provide electrical safety training to our team and also invited members from Biddulph Repair Café to join us at a specialist training centre in Stoke.
Some Statistics for 2025
· Projected number of items brought in for repair in 2025 - 305
· Repair Café volunteers - 33
· Successes on the day - 68%
· Requiring replacement parts - 15%
· Unrepairable items - 17%.
Our final Repair Café of 2025 was on Saturday 15 November at the Foxlowe Arts Centre, where we were joined by the marvellous ‘Rescue Me’ stall – saving items from landfill and finding them new homes. All donations received on the stall were split between Haregate Community Centre and Andy’s Mans Club based at Leek Town FC.