Lynton, Lynmouth and Exmoor Advertiser, January 2020

16 JANUARY 2020
Save your broken possessions for UK’s largest-ever
repair café
Devon’s residents are being urged to hang on to
their broken possessions after the Christmas
holidays so they can be fixed at what promises to
be the largest repair café ever held.
The Big Fix 2020 will be held on Saturday February
15, and will see up to 109 repair cafés across the
UK being held simultaneously.
The national event is being coordinated by Devon County Council and follows the
success of The Big Fix last year when volunteers broke the record for the number of
items repaired at a single repair café.
Both events are examples of Devon County Council’s commitment to ensure that
Devon becomes a net-zero county.
Repair cafés are community events where skilled volunteer fixers donate their time
once a month to help members of their local community fix broken household objects.
Everything from sewing, electrical items, furniture repairs and mechanical issues can
be covered for a small donation towards the costs of the repair café. These are often
items which people may not be able to afford to get fixed or not sure how to do it
themselves and are brought back to life and saved from the bin.
Repair cafés also have a second, equally valuable role as meeting places where
anybody can sit down and have a chat.
Councillor Andrea Davis, Devon County Council’s Cabinet Member for Infrastructure
and Waste said: “Climate concerns are causing more people to look at the way they
live and ask what can I do to help the environment? One way is to recycle more, reuse
more and repair more. Extending the life of a hairdryer, repairing a garment or
upcycling a sofa is something everybody can do to help the environment. And it saves
you money. Buying new every time something breaks or gets old simply isn’t
sustainable.”
For more information visit the Recycle Devon website.
https://www.devonnewscentre.info/
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