Request our FREE Guide to Repairs in Sheffield HERE
Our repair cafe has shown that lots of people are keen to get things repaired, but often don’t know where to go. There are places in Sheffield - so to make it easier we’ve started working on a guide to where you can go. If you’d like us to email you a copy please click on this link and we’ll send it on! If you get it, and have suggestions for ways we can improve it, please email us your suggestions. Together, we hope we can get a comprehensive guide together! And get more people repairing :)
Please follow this link to ask us to send you our guide to places you can go to get help with repairs in Sheffield if you’d like a copy when its ready, .
The Story of our Repair Cafe
It started in September 2022 when we held our first, trial repair cafe. Staffed by amazing volunteers we offered skills in fixing household electrical items (think toasters, coffee makers, hoovers, printers…), laptops, phones, bicycles, things needing stitching and wooden items.
We loved doing it and quite a few things got successfully repaired (see the blog about our first cafe ). Since then we have hosted a monthly Repair Cafe - and we’d love to encourage you to bring your broken things along, and get some help figuring out if they can be repaired, and if so, whether you can fix it, rather than bin it! Good for the planet and good for your budget :)
To get a flavour of the repair cafe, you could check out our blog posts on them below. We've also had some interest in the media about our repair cafe - see "The Curious Return of Make Do and Mend" in the Tribute and "Radios, bikes and Ice-Cream Makers - Sheffielders save a fortune at repair shop events" in the Star!
Our fixers are all volunteers and offer skills to fix a range of things, so we can usually help you with any of the following at most cafes.
electrical household items
sewing repairs
knife sharpening
bike repairs
laptop and mobile phone repairs
wooden items repairs
So far we’ve successfully carried out about 60 repairs (see our blog post here for a full list to be inspired!) … and we are looking forward to doing many more at our next Repair Cafes.
If you would like to check what fixers are coming, you can contact us the week before - we should know then which volunteers are coming and what skills we’ll have on offer - call 07967 144230 or email info@harlandworks.co.uk.
See below for the dates of our upcoming monthly Sunday afternoon (2 pm to 5 pm) Repair Cafes - no need to book, but please come early and allow time to wait your turn. The cafe is open for drinks and cakes to keep you going as you wait.
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