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SIRCH Repair Café

Due to Covid-19 The Repair Cafe program has shifted to produce four videos on how you upcycle items from your home!

Join our staff Stacy as she upcycles a t-shirt into a bag! What a great idea of reusing an old t-shirt. Don’t toss it! Reuse it!
Do you have a wobbly chair or stool? Don is sharing a genius technique to fix it! You will be surprised at what he used to fix these two wobbly items! Don’t toss it! Fix it!!
Most likely your tastes for home decor have changed since you last purchased that vase from the 1980’s! Join Stacy as she shows you how to use a viral technique using two ingredients you most likely have at home to change the colour and feel of that outdated item!
Don’t toss it! Up-cycle it!
Join Don as he gives you easy tips and techniques on how to tune your bike so that you can enjoy it all summer long!
Don’t toss it! Fix it!
Can we fix it?
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FAQs

What is a Repair Café?

A Repair Café is a free community event where volunteers with repair expertise help people in the community repair their broken belongings.

Bring your broken items, or your repair expertise, to one of these events and work together to repair household electrical and mechanical devices, furniture, computers, bicycles, clothing, and many cherished antiques and keepsakes. The diverse list of items repaired is endless.

You can also learn to fix your broken items with the help of our volunteer Fixers.

If you have nothing to repair, you can enjoy a cup of tea or coffee and enjoy the supportive community atmosphere. Or you can lend a hand with someone else’s repair job. There will be lots going on so join us!

Want to help? Volunteer!

Highlights of SIRCH’s first Repair Cafe

Meet some of our volunteer Fixers

Volunteer Fixer Doug Norris
Volunteer Fixer Jerry Misner

Funding

SIRCH’s Repair Café is funded by the Ontario Trillium Foundation. The Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) is an agency of the Government of Ontario, and one of Canada’s leading granting foundations. OTF awarded $108 million to 629 projects last year to build healthy and vibrant communities in Ontario.