What is a Repair Cafe?

From HERE:

Inge Leonora-den Ouden wrote:Although I love doing repairs on clothes and other textiles, I am so glad I don't have to do all repairs myself! There's a 'Repair Café' in town. As far as I know it's open once a month on a Saturday. Volunteers there help repairing all kind of stuff, even electronic devices! And then you can put some money in a box, as much or as little as you can (or want to) pay!

I had never heard of a Repair Cafe so I ask Mr. Google "What is a Repair Cafe?"

I found a Wikipedia for that:

A repair Café is a place where people gather to work on repairing objects of everyday life such as electrical and mechanical devices, computers, bicycles, clothing, and other items.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repair_caf%C3%A9

Here are some images I found on pinterest:


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That sounds like such fun I want to start one!

Do you have a Repair Cafe where you live?

Have you been to one?  What did you get repaired or did you help repair something?

Does anyone think that we might start a Virtual Repair Cafe right here on the "Repair Forum?"  Would it work?

Let's get a discussion going all about Repair Cafes!

This sounds like a great idea. I've never seen one personally, but I'll put it on my back burner of ideas to maybe make happen in my community.

Thank you for making this new thread. Wasn't there already a thread on repair Cafés? Strange. I thought they were well known, also (or especially) by people like there are here at Permies. I'm sure they exist in many countries. The first ones were not here in the Netherlands. I saw videos of them in English speaking countries (don't remember if it was USA, UK or Canada)