Hughes Community Centre

Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Hosted by Group avatarCanberra Repair Cafe

Volunteers at a Restart Party fixing devices, cropped on hands

Description

We will have volunteer repairers available for textiles, clothes, woollens, jewellery and electrical items.

To help us manage numbers we prefer bookings for this free event. Please select from our three time slots: 10am-11am, 11am-12pm and 12pm-1pm. If you’ve booked but can no longer make it please contact us so we can make your place available to another person.

This event is volunteer-run and self-sufficient, so if you have tools or materials you can use for your own repairs or share with others, do bring them along.

Tea and coffee available. Free entry, small donations encouraged.

We buy glue and other consumables with any donations from guests/volunteers and use donated or shared tools.

Please note our new location at Hughes Community Centre, Same lovely Canberra Environment Centre Volunteers, just a new location!

Location

Get directions on Google Maps

2 Wisdom Place, Hughes ACT, Australia

About the group

Group avatar

Canberra Repair Cafe

This event is volunteer-run and self-sufficient, so if you have tools or materials you can use for your own repairs or share with others, do bring them along.

Tea and coffee available. Free entry, small donations encouraged.

We buy glue and other consumables with any donations from guests/volunteers and use donated or shared tools.

Group Stats

...

participants

...

hours volunteered

...

parties thrown

...

waste prevented

...

CO2 emission prevented

Restart Party Do’s and Don’ts

DO

  • Check if your device is still within warranty, you may be eligible for a free repair, replacement or a refund. (Which? helps in the UK).
  • Take responsibility for your device and your data. Our volunteers are here to help you learn to fix your gadget, not to provide a free repair service. Get involved!
  • Backup your data. We can’t be responsible for your cat pics, so please back up your device before you come. (Of course you already do this once a month, right?)
  • Charge up your device and bring all leads.
  • Get in touch with organisers if you have any questions about whether a fix is possible.

DON’T

  • Assume repairs will be successful. We help fix over half of devices at our events. Even if your repair is unsuccessful, you will learn about your device and why it failed.
  • Expect us to have spare parts. But we can help you source them. Often people visit twice: first we’ll help diagnose the fault, then you source the spare part, and on your return we’ll help you do a replacement.
  • Attempt a mobile screen repair just to save money. DIY mobile screen repair is a learning opportunity first and foremost. Please see our advice page first.
  • Bring a microwave.