Video: Repair Cafe Hastings celebrates one year of repairing
If your seats don't sit or your toaster is not toasting as it should be or if your table has a terminal wobble, there's one place you need to go and that's a repair cafe.
At the Repair Cafe Hastings this week, people brought in much loved but not working lamps, food processors, radios, clothing, knives and so much more to be fixed, all for a koha donation, saving the items from wasting away in rubbish dumps.
James Taylor set up the Repair Cafe Hastings a year ago and loves the challenge each new repair job brings.
"I love it because I love puzzles," says Taylor. "So people bring something in and I've never taken it apart before and I have no idea how it works. So I get to take it apart, figure out what does what and then from there try and work out what's the problem and can we fix it and how do we get it going again."
But unfortunately not every broken thing brought into the Repair Cafe Hastings can be fixed.
"Sometimes you can have 70% and sometimes you're going to have 40%, it varies," says Taylor when asked about the cafe's repair success rate.
The cafe is always on the lookout for new volunteers who can fix electronics, clothing, furniture, or anything really. So if you are or know someone who would be perfect please email James at rch@outlook.co.nz or if you would like to know when the next cafe is on, head along to Repair Cafe Hastings on Facebook for all the details.
The next Repair Cafe Hastings event will be on Sunday 12 May at the Clive Rugby Club.
