As part of a big drive to rethink waste, South Oxfordshire District Council (SODC) is encouraging residents to check out the Didcot Repair Café.
Sustainable Didcot’s Repair Café, is open on the third Saturday of every month, 2pm to 5pm in The Green Hub in the SOHA building on Station Road.
The friendly repair café is run entirely by dedicated volunteers who will try their best to fix broken household items for free, ranging from repairs of household electrical items (including computers), broken toys, clocks and watches, sharpening blunt knives – even sprucing up old bicycles. They are particularly interested in repairing electrical items and they will PAT test them to make sure they are safe.
More information on the Didcot Repair Café website.
We can thoroughly recommend this project.
I took an old electric drill for repairs and they traced the faults and would have fixed it but the parts had to come from America and were more expensive than a new drill !
Not the result we hoped for.
However while we were there we met a chap who repairs and services clocks and he made an excellent job of refurbishing a very old ( 2nd WW) cuckoo clock.
While we were there bikes, computers and everything in between were being sorted out and brought back to life.