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Repair Cafe Forest Row

Name: Repair Cafe Forest Row
Address: The Community Centre, Forest Row, RH185DZ, GB
Telephone: 01342 822661

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The Forest Row Repair Cafe aims to help reduce waste by encouraging a repair culture in our community. A repair can save time, money and waste.

We are open on the 3rd Saturday of each month at the Community Centre, Hartfield Road, Forest Row, RH18 5DZ. Repair Cafe Requirement:
When bringing in any item to be repaired could you please make sure it is clean of any dirt or mud. All fabric items must be washed before you attend otherwise we may refuse to repair them. Thank you for your understanding and consideration of our repairers.

21/10/2026

🎉 Forest Row Repair Café Celebrates Nine Years of Repairing!🔧❤️

Saturday was a double celebration: our ninth birthday and International Repair Day! It was wonderful to mark both occasions with our team of dedicated repairers, special decorations and some very special cupcakes.

We had 59 repairs brought in, including:

⚡ 33 electricals
🧵 5 sewing repairs
💻 1 IT repair
⏰ 5 watches and clocks
✂️ 6 sharpening jobs
🔧 9 general repairs

An impressive 61% of items were repaired, a very positive result!
Thank you to everyone who brought along an item, supported our team and helped make our ninth birthday such a success.
Join us on Saturday 21st November for our final Repair Café of 2026. Bring along your broken Christmas lights and other household treasures, and let's see what we can save from the scrap heap!

15/10/2026

THIS SATURDAY! Firstly, it's International Repair Day, a global celebration of fixing the stuff we already have (HOORAY!), and secondly, it's our 9th birthday (HOORAY!).

Come along from 10am-1pm with last orders taken at 12.30pm
Don't forget we can fix rips in wetsuits and down jackets, and repair welly rips and tears (though not soles, sadly - please ensure wellies are clean!).
Our fabulous volunteer team includes repairers for:
Bikes 🚲
Ceramic items⚱️
Clocks ⏰
Clothes👗🪡
Computers💻
Down jacket rips (less than 10cm)
Electrics 📻
Electronics 🎮
Inflatables 🏖️ - please mark the hole with a marker pen.
Small furniture items🪑(chairs, stools, small tables)
Sharpening ✂️ (we often have availability for sharpening, so bring your blunt knives, scissors and gardening tools; there is a limit of six items per person, unless we're not busy)
Tent rips and tears (less than 10cm)⛺
Welly rips and tears
Wetsuits and neoprene rips 🏄
Our wonderful café will be open, so do try our delicious cakes and refreshments while you wait. We look forward to seeing you.

Community Centre, Forest Row, RH18 5DZ.

Please remember we are often really busy at the beginning of the session, so if you can arrive a little later, that should save you waiting as long. Also, we are sorry to say that it's not possible to bring dogs into the Repair Cafe

22/09/2026

🔧 Another busy morning at the Repair Café! 🧵🚲⚡
It was lovely to see the Repair Café back to our usual level of visitor numbers this month. There was a real buzz in the room, with lots of familiar faces and plenty of new repairs to keep our wonderful team busy!

74 repairs were brought in on Saturday, including:
⚡ 31 electricals�
🧵 14 sewing�
💻 4 IT�
⏰ 5 watches & clocks�
✂️ 3 sharpening�
🚲 5 bikes�
🔧 12 general repairs

And the results?
✅ 54% repaired�
❌ 13% could not be repaired�
💡 17% received advice�
🛠️ 16% were taken home by our repairers for further attention

That's a lot of repairing, fixing, sharing of skills and preventing things from going to waste!

🎉 Our next Repair Café is on Saturday 17th October – and it's a very special one!
We're celebrating our 9th birthday 🥳 and it also coincides with International Repair Day.
So please come along and help us celebrate another year of repairing, reusing, sharing skills and keeping things out of landfill.
We hope to see you there! 🔧❤️

18/09/2026

TOMORROW! It's September.'s Forest Row Repair Cafe. Come along from 10am-1pm, with last orders taken at 12.30pm.
Our fabulous volunteer team includes repairers for:
Bikes 🚲
Ceramic items⚱️
Clocks ⏰
Clothes👗🪡
Computers💻
Down jacket rips (less than 10cm)
Electrics 📻
Electronics 🎮
Inflatables (including camping mattresses) - please mark the hole with a sharpie.
Small furniture items🪑(chairs, stools, small tables)
Sharpening ✂️ (we often have availability for sharpening, so bring your blunt knives, scissors and gardening tools; there is a limit of six items per person, unless we're not busy)
Tent rips and tears (less than 10cm)⛺
Welly rips and tears
Wetsuits and neoprene rips 🏄
Our wonderful café will be open, selling delicious and reasonably priced cakes and refreshments while you wait. We look forward to seeing you.
Community Centre, Forest Row, RH18 5DZ.
Please remember we are often really busy at the beginning of the session, so if you can arrive a little later, that should save you waiting as long. Also, we are sorry to say that it's not possible to bring dogs into the Repair Cafe.

15/09/2026

THIS SATURDAY!
It's September's Forest Row Repair Cafe. Come along from 10am-1pm with last orders taken at 12.30pm
Don't forget we can fix rips in wetsuits and down jackets, and repair welly rips and tears (though not soles, sadly - please ensure wellies are clean!).
Our fabulous volunteer team includes repairers for:
Bikes 🚲
Ceramic items⚱️
Clocks ⏰
Clothes👗🪡
Computers💻
Down jacket rips (less than 10cm)
Electrics 📻
Electronics 🎮
Inflatables 🏖️ - please mark the hole with a marker pen.
Small furniture items🪑(chairs, stools, small tables)
Sharpening ✂️ (we often have availability for sharpening, so bring your blunt knives, scissors and gardening tools; there is a limit of six items per person, unless we're not busy)
Tent rips and tears (less than 10cm)⛺
Welly rips and tears
Wetsuits and neoprene rips 🏄
Our wonderful café will be open, selling delicious and reasonably priced cakes and refreshments while you wait. We look forward to seeing you.
Community Centre, Forest Row, RH18 5DZ.
Please remember we are often really busy at the beginning of the session, so if you can arrive a little later, that should save you waiting as long. Also, we are sorry to say that it's not possible to bring dogs into the Repair Cafe

02/09/2026

Saturday 19th September 2026
September Forest Row Repair Café
A busy summer enjoying time in the sun can sometimes leave a few things in need of repair!
Find us in the Community Centre, Forest Row RH18 5DZ. 10am-1.00pm with last orders at 12.30.

17/08/2026

🔧 Another busy month at the Repair Café! ☕🛠️
We had 60 repairs brought in on Saturday.

These were:
23 electricals
7 sewing
4 IT
8 watches/clocks
4 sharpening
1 bike and
13 general repairs

62% were repaired
7% could not be repaired
14% received advice and
12% were taken home by repairers so should end up in a repair.

A huge thank you to all our wonderful volunteers for another month of amazing repairs! 👏❤️
We hope to see you at our next Repair Café on 19th September. Come along, bring something that needs fixing, enjoy some homemade cake and a cuppa, and have a chat! ☕🔧🍰
Here’s a look at some of the repairs our volunteers tackled this month…

Address

The Community Centre
Forest Row
RH185DZ

Opening Hours

10am - 1pm

Telephone

01342 822661

Website

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