The Crowborough Repair Café has celebrated its third year of saving broken household items from the bin.
In those three years, the volunteer repairers have seen 1,070 items – and successfully repaired 89 per cent of them. Those items have included clothing, tools, jewellery, clocks, watches, and electrical devices.
Part of Green Transition Crowborough, the Repair Café is held every month on the first Saturday in the month. It’s at The Ashdown School site in Herne Road from 10am.
To celebrate the 3rd anniversary, the chair and vice chair of Green Transition Crowborough, Mike Coyne and Susanna Way, toasted the volunteers at a special event attended by the Crowborough Mayor, Cllr Natalie Whittle.
Thanking everyone involved, Mike said: “When we started this three years ago, who would have thought we would be where we are now; it’s wonderful.”
Cllr Whittle added her thanks and congratulations. She said: “Yes, this is about making a more sustainable Crowborough, but it’s also been wonderful for the community and bringing people together.”
The Repair Café’s aim is to breathe new life into broken items and save them from being thrown away. https://greentransitioncrowborough.org.uk/crowborough-repair-cafe/