Tuggeranong Repair Cafe

 


When: Last Sunday of each month (Feb-Nov) 1pm to 4pm.

The next repair café is on this Sunday, 26 October.

Where: Impact Community Hub, 200 Clive Steele Ave, Monash

The Tuggeranong Repair Café is a great place to get a clothing item repaired. The only cost would be for any parts required although donations are welcome. It is a friendly place to be with refreshments provided in the café for a small charge.

Clothing is only one of the many items that can be repaired. Check their Facebook page for a full list of repairers at upcoming repair cafes. It might include repairs to electrical, jewellery, laptops, garden equipment, lawn mowers, toys and bikes.

The Tuggeranong Repair Café is also the location to get and swap your Lids4Kids Swap’n Go Zero Waste Warrior tub. If you are not familiar with this Lids4Kids tub, it allows you to drop in a wide range of hard to recycle items including plastic lids, rubber bands, toothbrushes, pens, metal rung pulls, corks, aluminium, batteries, medicine blister packs and light bulbs. It only costs $29 a year to be a member and you can swap it as many times as you need in a year.

For more information: here (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064697890533&mc_cid=326e119d4b&mc_eid=0cc848a114)


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