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Rolleston Repair Cafe

Lincoln Envirotown Coordinator from Lincoln Envirotown

Join Us at the October Repair Café!

Is your bicycle gathering dust in the garage? Do you have a toaster that's lost its spark? Don't toss them out just yet! We're excited to announce our Repair Café event, where we're giving new life to your ageing or broken items.

Date: Saturday 5th October
Time: 10.30am - 1.30pm
Location: Te Ara Atea, Rolleston

We aim to have skilled volunteers on hand to help repair a variety of items, from bikes to electronics, clothing to household appliances, and more. Here's what we've got planned:

Bicycle repairs by the expert from Fix ur Ride.
Computer, Electrical & Electronics including, Household Appliances: The appliance specialists from Ecotech Services and Molten Media will be able to assist.
Clothing: Our talented volunteer seamstresses will mend your favourite garments.
Knife & Scissor Sharpening from Selwyn Knife & Blades.
Jewellery
General Repairs: If it's broken, we'll do our best to fix it!

Please Register: events.humanitix.com...

To help us help you, please register for this free event. Provide a brief description of the issue and the item(s) you need repairing. This way, our volunteer repairers can come prepared with the right tools and parts. We would appreciate it if items were brought in no later than 1 PM to give our repairers time to take a look. If you haven’t registered you can still come along on the day.

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