Outside Church at Donkey Lane Community Orchard

We are delighted to be hosting St Andrew's outside church at the Community Orchard on Sunday 4th August. 

 

Repair Café Results

Brilliant morning on Saturday 20th July at our first Repair Café in St Andrew’s Church. I think everyone who took part or visited enjoyed it. Thank you very much to our amazing fixers and helpers; what a great team we have. I think St Andrew’s is a perfect venue. Our thanks to Lauretta and Jacky for their help in bringing this together.

You may like to know how we did, well we had 9 fixers, 3 support and 37 visitors. 24 items were logged of which 17 were fixed plus 1 that has been taken to fix (46 kilos), 2 given advice (1.5 kilos) and 4 being unfixable (5 kilos). 75% of items fixed (or will be fixed), not bad at all 😊.

Some of the items that turned up were:

Cloth tool bag, a 150-year-old bible, a lamp, a vax hoover, shredders, soft toys, jeans, toy train, lawn mower, ladder, dressing gown, secateurs, charger for an electric fence, toaster, a Christmas rocking reindeer and a music box. 

The next Repair Cafés at St Andrew’s are planned for:

• Saturday 28th September 2024. 10:00 am – 1:00 pm (last item accepted 12:30 pm)

• Saturday 2nd November 2024. Timings as above 

More details of what we can fix, will be published nearer the date. If you’d like to get involved in our Repair Café, please either message or email me at greeningchinnor@gmail.com

 

Greening Chinnor Repair Café

We are pleased to announce that our Repair Cafés are resuming in July at a new venue. The café will be held on Saturday 20th July at St Andrew’s Church from 10am until 1 pm with the last item accepted at 12pm. The plan is to host three cafés at St Andrew’s between July and early November.

Our Repair Café is a welcoming space for people to bring various items for mending; an opportunity to come together as a community, learn new skills, save money, and help our local environment. Donations are welcomed, which will be split between Greening Chinnor and St Andrew’s but there is no pressure or expectation.

You can bring:

• any small household electrical item (e.g., kettle, radio, hifi, lamp, etc.). Please don't bring white goods or anything you can't carry.
• toys and mechanical item
• clothes or textiles - we can help with buttons, simple patches, minor sewing repairs
• small leather items that need repairing
• broken items that needs gluing - e.g. china, plastic toys etc. We will have various kinds of glue such as araldite, super glue etc for you to use.

New for 2024 we can offer advice on book repair and restoration and possibly minor repairs!

We can’t guarantee we can fix everything, but we will have a go.

We are currently on the lookout for a few more volunteers, either to share their mending skills at the cafés or to help behind the scenes and/or welcome people on the day. You don’t need to be a professional to volunteer - just someone with some basic skills who is happy to share what they know. There is no pressure to undertake any repairs that you are not confident with.

Please get in touch with Linda at greeningchinnor@gmail.com if you would like to get involved.