‘Reuse it, don’t lose it!’ is the message from the Kenilworth Repair Café which was established in 2021 thanks to Green Shoots Community Climate Change Funding. Here, personal and portable items can be brought for repair, to extend their useful life. All sorts of items can be brought in, ranging from clothes and accessories needing a stitch or simple repair to furniture and homeware to toys and electrical/electronic items that need a more technical approach.
The core aims of the Kenilworth Repair Café are to:
- Increase the adaptability and resilience of Kenilworth to climate change by reducing the amount of waste sent to landfill in particular electrical items which are currently hard to recycle.
- To provide a service to the whole community of Kenilworth and surrounding areas regardless of wealth.
- Help foster an awareness of environmental issues by creating a repair culture rather than that of discard and replace.
- Help give residents the skills to repair items on their own in the future.
- Provide important volunteering opportunities to support the work of the café.
