Tauranga Repair Cafe has been successfully repairing and fixing items for nearly two years. Due to popular demand they need more volunteers and they need YOUR help to join Tauranga’s Repair Café volunteer team.
Tauranga Repair Café is a volunteer-driven initiative as part of STEM Wana Trust/Tinkd Makerspace, a registered charity, that aims to reduce waste and overconsumption. They are a group of like-minded people with a “do it yourself” spirit and a wide variety of fixer skills who gather on the last Saturday of each month for a lively and busy morning offering their services, free of charge, to anyone who wants to give objects destined for the landfill a second chance.
Maybe it can be fixed, maybe it can’t but the volunteers at the Repair Café can take a look, offer suggestions, and repair it if they can.
Each month they see a broad range of items come in such as clothing/textile repairs, small appliances, wood repairs, bikes and electronics. They often “sell out” of space for items booked in, but want to grow attendance, so they need more volunteers to take part.
If you would like to volunteer, or you have questions or an interest in meeting other volunteers to hear how it works please join in during #NationalVolunteerWeek on Monday, June 17th , 5pm at Basestation, 148 Durham Street. If you can’t make it that night but you’re interested to know more please get in touch.
WHEN: Monday 17th June 2024 at 5pm
WHERE: Tinkd Makerspace, 148 Durham Street, Tauranga (free on-street parking after 5pm)
You’ll get a chance to meet some of the amazing volunteers, see the space, and chat with the organising team.
RSVP here. Grab a ticket and come along to find out more, the team would love to meet you.
Find out more here: www.tinkd.nz.
Tauranga Repair Cafe is kindly supported by Tauranga City Council. See what’s happening around Aotearoa New Zealand for more inspiration @repaircafenz or www.repaircafeaotearoa.co.nz.
