Hawker Community Repair Cafe

 


When: Quarterly, 10am to 1pm (check their Facebook page for dates of next repair café)

The next repair café (and last for 2025) is on Sunday 14 December 10am to 1pm.

Where: Hawker Softball centre, Walhallow Street, Hawker

The Hawker Men’s Shed host a repair café at the Hawker Softball Centre every 3 months. You can get a clothing item repaired at the café. In addition, volunteers can help repair small electrical items, small furniture, small household items, toys, jewellery, leather goods, bikes, lawn mowers, small motors, garden/shed tools as well as getting tools/knives sharpened.

Back in September, one of the amazing volunteers did some creative upcycling by combining old frayed ski pants with a broken umbrella. Now that is creative!

If you have read the other earlier posts on this website, you will notice that there are six repair cafes in Canberra and they do things slightly differently. The Hawker repair café is run in conjunction with a Made Local Market. At the September repair café, there were over thirty stalls of locally made and grown items for sale. So, as well as getting an item repaired, you could purchase birthday and Christmas presents.

For more information: here https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100065036642403&mc_cid=326e119d4b&mc_eid=0cc848a114  

 

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