Repair Café - Let’s fix it!
Above SUSSED James St. Porthcawl on Saturdays, currently open 10.30am to 12.30pm
In response to increasing public concern locally regarding the climate emergency and resource loss, Sustainable Wales is helping establish a Repair Café in Porthcawl. We need to move away from a disposable culture and rebuild a more resilient community, bringing back repair and reuse into daily life.
Repair Cafés reduce landfill, loss of raw materials, saving energy, pollution and money whilst helping work towards a more sustainable future. Cafes are also social, people meet friends and can learn new skills.
You can also have a coffee or tea while you wait and perhaps sample some of the home made cake!
Bring along your broken or damaged hand-held items and our volunteer repairer will try to fix it, for free.
We cannot guarantee that we are able to repair everything brought into the Café, but we will definitely give it a try.
We don’t charge for repairs but donations are very welcome to help us cover our costs.
Can you help? The Repair Café is run by skilled volunteers – we need more! So if you have repair skills you can share, please get in touch.
Guidance
Sustainable Wales Repair Cafe Wales Rules
Please read though our house rules.
What we do and don’t do
We are a group of enthusiastic amateurs who want to reduce landfill and share our fixing skills. We are not a repair shop; we would like to also show you how to fix your item or even get you to do it while we advise!
Volunteers will need to have time to repair your device. If you arrive close to our closing, we may have to decline the repair.
The charity has a responsibility to keep our volunteers safe and if something is dangerous or dirty, we may decline to repair it.
For safety and to avoid competing with local business, we don’t repair
Microwaves, Welding, Clothes alterations, Adult bike repairs, Safety equipment, White Goods, Mobile phones, Laptops
Rules
All repairs carried out at the Sustainable Wales Repair Café (RC) are performed at the visitor’s own risk. The advice and repair service is conducted by volunteers and there is no charge but donations are welcome to cover costs including the purchase of tools and equipment and the development of the service.
• All visitors are required to complete and sign the Repair Form for record keeping purposes before any repairs can be contemplated.
• Visitors are often expected to remain with the volunteer(s) while the repair is being carried out to see how the repair is being done and to pick up new skills.
• Items should not be left with the volunteer(s) and collected later; but where the repair itself makes this necessary neither the organisers of the Sustainable Wales Repair Café nor the volunteer(s) can assume any responsibility for safe keeping.
• The fact that the repairs are being undertaken by unpaid volunteers reflects the allocation of risks and limitation of liability: neither the organisers of the Sustainable Wales Repair Café, nor the volunteer(s) are liable for any loss that may result from advice or instructions concerning repairs, for the loss of items handed over for repair, for indirect or consequential loss or for any other kind of loss resulting from work performed in the Sustainable Wales Repair Café.
• Any use of new materials such as leads, plugs, fuses, zips, etc. will be paid for separately by the visitor. Any work initiated in the Sustainable Wales Repair Café but continued outside of the Repair Cafes hours is completely at the discretion of the volunteer(s) and the agreement they make with the visitor.
• The Sustainable Wales Repair Café and the volunteer(s) offer no guarantee for any repairs carried out with or without their help and are not liable if any repaired items do not work properly at home or break down again in the future.
• The Sustainable Wales Repair Café and the volunteer(s) take no responsibility in any form whatsoever for any item, repaired or otherwise once it has left the premises where the Sustainable Wales Repair Café session is taking place.
• Volunteers are entitled to refuse to repair certain objects and are not obliged to reassemble disassembled appliances that cannot be repaired.
• Visitors to the Sustainable Wales Repair Café are solely responsible for the tidy removal of broken objects that could not be repaired.
• Neither the organisers of the Sustainable Wales Repair Café, nor the volunteer(s) in personal capacities or otherwise are liable for any accidental damage that may occur to either visitors’ goods (including vehicles) or personal effects during visitors’ time at the sessions.
• To avoid unnecessary waiting times during busy periods, a maximum of ONE item per person will be examined. Should time allow, extra items may be considered for examination and assessment.
• Visitors to the Sustainable Wales Repair Café are responsible for ensuring their electrical items are PAT tested and maintained after repair.
PLEASE NOTE: Dangerous tools and equipment are present and sometimes used in repairs. Parents must exercise control over, and be responsible for, the behaviour of their children whilst attending the Sustainable Wales Repair Café.