Repair Café Wollondilly
Fri 17 July 11am – 1pm – No BOOKINGS just turn up and find your volunteer repair match

Get ready for the first Wollondilly Repair Café as part of the fun and sustainable Wollondilly Waste to Art prize 2026.

A Repair café is a free community place to bring broken household items—like clothing, small electronics, machines, and furniture—to be fixed by skilled volunteer repairers. We want to keep usable items out of landfill, teach repair skills, and share a safe community space that’s all about being responsible about waste.

Thanks to our fabulous Volunteers here is your mending menu:

• Clothing & Textiles: Mending, sewing, patching, and hemming.

Join the mending circle with Hilary and Kerry from the Picton CWA

• Knife Sharpening: Don’t throw away your blunt knife make it sharp again.
• Small Electricals: Toasters, lamps, vacuums, and radios.
• Bicycles: General tune-ups and flat tire fixes.

• Woodwork/Furniture: Gluing and fixing broken chairs or small tables.

See one of the fabulous volunteers from the Tahmoor Men’s Shed, the Wollondilly North Rotary Club and Corin from Niroc Tools 

• Jewellery & Toys: Cleaning, restringing or basic repairs.

See Ingrida for basic jewellery repair including ring reshaping. Use the ultra sonic jewellery cleaner.

• Not broken but needs bedazzling

Join Holly & Daphne at the ‘bling my things bedazzling station’ and make your device, bike, scooter or thing more exciting and glamorous

The Wollondilly Repair Café is part of an international movement check out the  Repair Café Foundation

How it Works

• Expert Help: You are paired with a volunteer who diagnoses the problem and helps you fix your item on the spot.
• Do-It-Together: It is an interactive learning process. You watch, learn, and often participate in the repair.
• Free Labor, Low Cost: The repair service is completely free, though you will need to supplement available supplies such as bring a zipper etc.
• The Café Vibe: While waiting for your repair, you can enjoy a coffee, tea, and chat with locals.