Description
The place to bring your portable broken items and watch our volunteer repairers fixing them. Tea/coffee and home made cakes. Electrical, bikes, sewing, jewellery etc. Free entry, repairs by donation.
About the group
Southampton Repair Cafe
Repair cafe, repairing bikes, jewellery and clothing etc as well as electrical items. Started in 2014. Now running 2 repair cafes each month across 4 sites in Southampton.
We are part of Transition Southampton which runs various environmental projects in our city.
Group Stats
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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.