The Repair Cafe in Peasedown St John that takes items which might otherwise be thrown away and seeks to repair them has largely had to stay closed during the pandemic.

The Repair Cafe had hoped to re-open in January (sadly without the yummy cakes that are normally provided) but with the latest lockdown the decision has been made that the Cafe can’t claim to be ‘essential’. So, sadly, there won’t be a Repair Cafe in January.

However, unless Covid regulations rule it out, we are hoping to run a ‘take-away’ service. If people have items to be repaired, they would bring them to Peasedown Methodist Church in the morning of Saturday, 26th February from 10 am – 11.30 am (wrapped please and with a description of what is wrong). We will then quarantine the items, get them out to our repairers and then return them to the owners on 13th March.

Since the Cafe opened in June 2019, 119 items have been successfully repaired, which is over two-thirds of the items that have been brought in and it is hoped that we will soon be rescuing more items from the skip and sending their owners back home happy.

The details of the takeaway will be further available in the village in mid-February.

Ian Souter