Today saw the very successful opening of Woodbridge’s first Repair Cafe. As we all grow in awareness about saving precious resources and doing what we can to curb waste and slow climate change, the people of Woodbridge are doing their bit.
The ribbon was cut by Eamonn O’Nolan, this years town mayor, who later took the ribbon to be mended by one of the cafe’s team of sewing experts!
Jointly hosted by St John’s Church and Transition Woodbridge, and held in St John’s Church itself, the scheme has received a donation from Woodbridge and district Lions, which has enabled the Cafe to get started. And what a start!
Amongst the warm and relaxed atmosphere of the Church’s already well established Hub Cafe, volunteer repairers tinkered, sewed and soldered as broken item after broken item was given a new lease of life. Happy owners left clutching kettles, toasters, handbags, and CD players that will live on for a good while yet. And all for a donation of a pound or two towards stocking the cafe’s collection of nuts and bolts.
Not all items could be repaired of course, and the scheme insists it will not take trade from local businesses so they publish a list of local bike repairers, and watch menders etc., to refer people on to.
Although the Church’s Hub Cafe runs every Monday from 10.00 until 12.00, the Repair Cafe will be there every first Monday of the month. So why not look out that torn jacket or failing heater and go along on October 7th to see for yourself and join the ranks of people leading even more more sustainable lives?
