Palmerston North Repair Café

9am - 12pm

Repair Cafés are free pop-up events where local people bring in their broken and damaged belongings and local volunteer experts do their best to repair them. Repair Cafés are a growing movement and in 2022 Repair Café Aotearoa New Zealand (RCANZ) was created with the aim to develop and connect, inform, and support the network of people and organisations around New Zealand who organise community repair events in. There are currently 34 Repair Cafés (and rising) in Aotearoa New Zealand.Palmerston North Repair Café has been made possible with the support of Environment Network Manawatū, PNCC, MENZSHED, SuperGrans Manawatū and other community organisations. The café will work in cooperation with local businesses with the overall goal of improving accessibility to and understanding of repair, repurpose and recycling opportunities within the city as a means of reducing waste and engendering local resilience, connection, and cohesion.Depending on the skills and passions of Repair Café volunteers on the day, items mended and saved from landfill can include clothing, toys, household items, bikes, books, wooden items, jewellery, computers and more. We are looking for more volunteers with specialist skills to help us repairing.What we can’t repair in our current space: anything requiring power tools, electrical repairs (other than battery operated items) or anything taking away work from professional repair companies. If you can’t carry it in, we won’t fix it.The repair café will be help on the last Saturday of each month at Te Manawa Museum. This is a free event, but we ask for a koha/donation for repairs. We will have a café with $1 koha for each piece of food or drink.