Repair Café 12th September 2026

  Repair Café

12th September 2026

The next Greening Chinnor Repair Café will be held on Saturday 12th September, at St Andrew’s Church, Chinnor 10 am – 1 pm (last item accepted 12:30 pm depending on item and number of customers).

At this Repair Café we are able to offer:

general fixers – electrical / electronic / mechanical

wood repairs

sewing repairs (no zips)

book repairs/advice

We can’t guarantee to fix everything, but we’ll have a go. To help as many people as possible, we ask that you only bring 1 item per household although if we have time, you’re welcome to join the back of the queue. Refreshments available.

The repairs at Greening Chinnor Repair Café are free but donations towards costs and St Andrew’s Restoration fund will be gratefully received. Cash donations only please.

Would you like to help and get more involved? If you are interested in being part of our Repair Cafés, please message.

Greening Chinnor Repair Café

 Repair Café

11th July 2026

The next Greening Chinnor Repair Café will be held on Saturday 11th July, at St Andrew’s Church, Chinnor 10 am – 1 pm (last item accepted 12:30 pm depending on item).

At this Repair Café we are able to offer:

general fixers – electrical / mechanical wooden repairs

sewing repairs (no zips)

book repairs/advice

We can’t guarantee to fix everything, but we’ll have a go. To help as many people as possible, we ask that you only bring 1 item per household although if we have time, you’re welcome to join the back of the queue. Refreshments available.

The repairs at Greening Chinnor Repair Café are free but donations towards costs and St Andrew’s Restoration fund will be gratefully received. Cash donations only please.

Would you like to help and get more involved? If you are interested in being part of our Repair Cafés, please message.

Greening Chinnor Annual General Meeting

The Greening Chinnor AGM held on Tuesday 19th May was an opportunity to showcase the achievements our small group of volunteers make year on year. Our biggest project is Donkey Lane Community Orchard with its four distinct strands of restoration, stories, surveys and archaeology followed by Repair Cafés and other ad hoc project.

The minutes from the AGM can be found here and if you want to find out more about our achievements a copy of our Annual Report can be found here or on our  website under Governance. We hope you find it interesting.

The formal process of the meeting was followed by demonstrations of traditional bobbin lacemaking by Lynn Lloyd (Chinnor Lacewings) and Sue Newman (Risboro’ Lacemakers) who gave an overview of bobbin lacemaking in the area and its history. Sue and Lynn brought a beautiful display of the many types of lace the group had produced. There was also the opportunity to try your hand at lacemaking and many attendees took up the challenge to work on ‘Sammy the Snake’.

Huge thanks to Lynn and Sue for giving us such a fun evening. For more information on Risboro’ Lacemakers go to their website at https://www.risborolacemakers.org/

VACANCY: We are in need of a secretary for the group. This is a key role and the main duties would be to record and prepare the minutes of our monthly meetings. This would require a time commitment of up to two hours at the meeting and two to three hours on producing the minutes (depending on experience). There would also be the opportunity to help with other back-office support such as preparation and close-down of the documentation required for our Repair Cafes and events as well as helping with newsletters and publicity, etc.

If you or someone you know would like to help us, please contact Greening Chinnor for an informal chat.