What is a Repair Café?
Established in 2007, there are now over 2500 Repair Cafés worldwide!
The Rutland and Stamford Repair Café are part of the Repair Café International Foundation network.

We throw away vast amounts of stuff. Even things with almost nothing wrong, and which could get a new lease on life after a simple repair. The trouble is, lots of people have forgotten that they can repair things themselves. Knowing how to make repairs is a skill quickly lost. This is a threat to a sustainable future and to the circular economy, in which raw materials can be reused again and again. 

The Repair Café provides a place for people with repair skills to get the appreciation they deserve and share invaluable practical skills with others. Things can be used for longer and don’t have to be thrown away. This reduces the volume of raw materials, energy and CO2 emissions that come from making new products instead of fixing the ones we already have.

The Repair Café is run by volunteers.
If you have any questions, please get in touch
email: [email protected]

LAUNCH EVENT
WHERE? STAMFORD
WHEN? 18 APRIL 2026
WHAT TIME? 11AM - 2PM
PLACE: ST. AUGUSTINE’S CHURCH
ADDRESS: 13 BROAD STREET, STAMFORD PE9 1PG (UK)

FOLLOWED BY
​Uppingham Town Hall, Friday 15th May
Repair Café house rules
  • The work carried out in the Repair Café is performed free of charge on a voluntary basis by the repair experts at hand.
  • Visitors carry out the repairs themselves whenever possible, but repair experts on site can help if necessary.
  • The fact that the repairs are being performed by unpaid volunteers reflects the allocation of risks and limitation of liability. Neither the organisers of the Repair Café nor the repair experts are liable for any loss that may result from advice or instructions concerning repairs, for the loss of items handed over for repair, for indirect or consequential loss or for any other kind of loss resulting from work performed in the Repair Café. The limitations set forth in these house rules shall not apply to claims declared justified on the basis of liability arising by virtue of applicable consumer protection legislation which cannot be lawfully superseded.
  • A voluntary donation is greatly appreciated.
  • Any use of new materials such as leads, plugs, fuses, ready-made kneebends 
or applications will be paid for separately.
  • Visitors offering broken items for repair do so at their own risk.
  • Experts making repairs offer no guarantee for the repairs carried out with their help and are not liable if objects that are repaired in the Repair Café turn out not to work properly at home.
  • Repair experts are entitled to refuse to repair certain objects.
  • Repair experts are not obliged to reassemble disassembled appliances that 
cannot be repaired.
  • Visitors to Repair Café are solely responsible for the tidy removal of broken objects that could not be repaired.
  • To cut down on unnecessary waiting times during busy periods, a maximum of ONE broken item per person will be examined. The visitor will join the back of the queue if there is a second item for repair.