Wivey Repair Cafe

24/12/2025

Thanks to everyone who has utilised the Repair Cafe over the last year. The total number of items we have saved from landfill really does add up!

Best wishes from the RC team - Hope you all have a lovely Xmas. 🎄🍾

15/11/2025

Quite a relaxed paced session today, but lots of successful repairs nevertheless. Good job team!

27/09/2025

Hey People of Wivey,

The Repair Cafe team are looking for help. Could you spare just 2 hours a month to help at our sessions?

We do not expect volunteers to be experts in any particular area, but just a little handy with tools, happy to have a go and willing to learn. There is no absolute commitment stipulation either. If you can only make sessions here and there, any help is great.

We have been running for approximately 7 years now and our sessions are quite popular. Hence the plea for additional volunteers. We would love to expand our team to keep pace with this. We are a very friendly and supportive team with our sessions being very informal - coffee and cake is provided at every session!

If you are at all interested then please don't hesitate to reach out.
Stuart Lloyd

11/08/2025

Heads up… We will not be running a Repair Cafe this month. This is so the team of volunteers can take a bit of a summer break too. Back in Sept - see you then. 😉

09/06/2025

Heads up on a great event coming up this week…

19/04/2025

Thanks to everyone who brought items to the Repair Cafe today. Lots of successful repairs were undertaken… some requiring more expertise than others!

Good to see the positive environmental impact that Wivey Repair Cafe is having. Great job team! 👍🏼

17/03/2025

This week’s repair cafe was full of action! We think we managed to repair everything that came through the door. Great work team! 👊

If you’re interesting in supporting our Repair Cafe sessions, we’re always on the look out for volunteers. 🙏

16/11/2024

Super busy session today, with over 20 items brought in for repair.
Fortunately, we managed to repair 85-90% of these. Great work team! 💪🏼
Hoping to run the next session just before Xmas, but keep an eye on FB for confirmation of this.

10/11/2024

If it can’t be repaired, then…

Never bin them, !
If it no longer works and has a plug, charger or battery, it should be recycled!
Small items can be easily recycled with your kerbside collection. Please just put them in a small carrier bag (if it's larger than a carrier bag than it needs to be taken to a recycling site).

When you recycle you help to protect the environment, and the materials hidden inside our electricals like gold and copper won't go to waste.

09/11/2024

Good to see how many repair cafes are now running in Somerset. Good job everyone!

It's and repairing our things is a great way to save money and reduce the the amount of stuff we throw away.

Repair events bring people together with volunteers that can offer practical help. Many small repairs are easy to do with a little know-how, however there are plenty of people in your community who can help! 🪛🧰🪛

Skilful volunteers are on hand at repair groups across the county, find our list of local groups here: www.somerset.gov.uk/bins-recycling-and-waste/somerset-repair-groups/

And here's a list of groups that will be running this month:
🔧Repair Cafe Bridgwater
🔧Cary Repair Cafe
🔧Burnham and Highbridge Repair Cafe
🔧Brittons Ash Repair Cafe
🔧Repair Cafe in the Blackdown Hills
🔧Carhampton Repair Cafe
🔧Chard Community Hub, Sewing Repair
🔧Chard Community Hub, General Repair
🔧Glastonbury Repair Cafe
🔧Ilminster Share and Repair
🔧Langport Repair Cafe
🔧Minehead Repair Cafe
🔧Street Repair Cafe
🔧Shepton Mallet Repair Cafe
🔧Taunton Repair Cafe
🔧Wells Repair Cafe
🔧Repair Cafe Wincanton
🔧Wivey Repair Cafe

20/10/2024

Thanks to everyone who attended our session yesterday. We managed to repair 13 out of 14 items brought to the session. Margaret was kept especially busy and did a great job with numerous clothing repairs... Thank you Margaret! 🙏

Yesterday was International Repair Day. With this in mind, the team at CAG Somerset have been analysing the impact that Wivey Repair Cafe has. The infographics show some really positive outcomes. Great job team! 👊