For Our Real Clean Environment

Come down to the Volunteering Northland fair at the library today to learn more about what we do and how we do it.

At this months Repair Cafe Whangarei event tomorrow Saturday 15th June 1:30pm - 4pm we will have the following repair skills available:
🪡 🧥 Knitwear/ clothing
🔪✂️ tool and knife sharpening
🚴‍♂️bike repair
📻electrical repair
⏰general repair

The 3rd Saturday of the month seems to come around fast.
That means it's Repair Cafe Whangārei time again this Saturday (15th June) 1.30pm - 4pm at Reyburn Studio, Town Basin.
Check out our earlier posts for which repairers will be there, so that you know what you can bring. All repairers are skilled volunteers.
Pic is of last month's cafe treats featuring Turning Point coffee. Have a coffee or tea while you wait.
Your koha keeps us running.

Do you know anyone that might like to join the Repair Cafe Whangārei electrical team?
This Saturday would be a great time to come along to see what is involved. Start time is 1.30pm, but anyone interested in this volunteer position could come a little earlier if they'd like to.

Today is World Environment Day.
This years campaign focuses on land restoration, desertification and drought resilience under the slogan “Our land. Our future. We are .”
How are you doing to make a difference ?

Nick, Karen, and Logan headed out to assist Jesse, our project coordinator for the coming tool library, with a planting organized by Maungatapere Mountain Trust.
We had a good team getting stuck on to help reforest the land and help create a bush corridor for birds and other animals.
We managed to get most of the trees planted with a few trays to go to be done at a layer date.

Our Repair Cafe project keeps growing and doing great things for the community. We are on the look out for more volunteers. If you have any skills to share from taking photos to electrical testing we would love to have you join us once a month. Fill out the form via this link https://forms.gle/dWTBZQPhf98LVt2j6 to get started.

Wow, what a great day we had on Saturday - our biggest number of repairs so far.
91 items came in for repair:
81 were repaired, 8 repairable, and 2 end of life.
In this lot were:
6 teddy bears
51 items sharpened
11 fabric repairs
2 bikes
7 general
2 wooden items
12 electrical items

Today's pic is of bike repairer Errol with a big smile as Karen had just teased him that he was meant to be fixing the bikes - not monkeying around on them!

We are in need of an electrical tester for the Repair Cafe Whangārei

We're on the lookout for a second electrician or certificated electrical tester to job share for our Repair Cafe Whangārei team.
Our electrical team repairers have wonderful skills with appliances and other electrical repairs, so someone qualified to sign off repairs will complete the team.
This is a volunteer position.
Message us, and we'll answer any questions and take it from there.
Repair Cafe Whangarei runs on the 3rd Saturday of each month from 1.30 - 4pm

We're looking forward to mending lots of your items tomorrow. It's always fun to see what you bring in.
See you at 1.30pm tomorrow, Reyburn Studio. Make sure you give us enough time for the mend as we down tools at 4pm.
If you have a wee wait, there's good "Turning Point" espresso coffee, or tea and baking.
Remember, we'd love you to be alongside as we mend if possible, so that you can see how it's done.
It all runs on koha.