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When is our next Repair Cafe?
- Saturday, November 7th 2026
This event will be at the Hub Community Centre in Cambourne, between 11am and 2pm.
A link to the event page and booking form will be posted approximately 6 weeks before the event. Check this page for updates.
What are Repair Cafe’s?
Repair Cafes are community events that match people who need stuff fixed, with people who like fixing things. The international Repair Cafe movement started in Amsterdam in 2009. There are now over 600 Repair Cafe’s in the UK and over 3,000 internationally. Repair Cafes are non-commercial and focus on bringing people together to share skills and reduce the environmental burden of consumption.
Cambourne Repair Cafe began in 2019 and, after a break during Covid, has now successfully completed eight events fixing hundreds of items, including common electrical household items, bicycles, sewing machines, clocks, jewellery and items of clothing.
The Cambourne Shed Committee organise Repair Cafe events, which are usually held at the Hub Community Centre in Cambourne, or Cambourne Village College as part of the school’s Eco Festival.
Volunteer at Cambourne Repair Cafe
See our Repair With Us page.
Why Repair?
The stuff that we use every day carries a high environmental burden due to resource extraction, processing, product manufacture and transport.
Pre-use emissions account for 84% of the lifecycle emissions of a blender, 79% of the lifecycle emissions of a mobile phone and 73% of lifecycle emissions of our clothes. We have become used to a high churn of household items to support our lifestyles, because our stuff fails quickly, because we find it hard to get things fixed and because our preferences change over time. So much so, that in the UK we generate the second highest amount of e-waste per person globally. But there are fruitful opportunities for change at the community and individual level: 64% of items that are brought to our Repair Cafes are fixed then-and-there in a 45 min slot, and there is plenty more potential for repair and reuse with almost half of the electricals sent for recycling either fully usable or economical to repair.
Cambridgeshire Repair Cafe Network
Cambourne Repair Cafe is part of the Cambridgeshire Repair Cafe Network, managed by Cambridge Carbon Footprint. For more details about this network and Repair Cafe’s visit CCF’s Repair Network page.
Cambourne Repair Cafe Gallery
