Repair Café

Need something fixed?

Bring your broken item to the Repair Café where our skilled volunteers will help you with the repair - for free! 

What to bring:

Whether it's missing buttons, a crooked stool, a broken photo frame or jewelry with a wacky clasp, bring it to the Repair Café! Over tea and a muffin, skilled volunteers will help you through the repair for free! 

What to Bring:

The Spring Repair Café will have fixers who can help with the following areas/items:

1. Sewing and mending of clothes, patching holes and tears, sewing on buttons, restitching
2. Bike repairs and tune-ups
3. Knitting – anything that has to do with yarn
4. Furniture repairs
5. Small appliances and electronics
6. Eyecare
7. Jewelry
8. General carpentry

Our volunteers will do their best to help with any and all repairs!

Bring the kids! We will have a Tinkerbell station where kids can playfully take apart toys and electronics!

Please ensure that the clothes you bring are clean and consider that our busy sewing team is always in high demand. We suggest that you limit yourself to 3 textile/clothing items.

How to Volunteer:

Can you sew, mend or fix small appliances? Are you skilled at repairing jewelry, small furniture, or toys? Would you like to teach people how to repair their items in a relaxed and fun atmosphere? We are seeking volunteer fixers for our upcoming event. Please contact Laura at zerowaste@squamish.ca  to lend a hand. 

Our volunteer fixers are the backbone of the program. Without them, the Repair Café would not be possible. 

What is a Repair Café?

Repair Cafés are free meeting places for repairing things (together). At the Repair Café you will find the expertise, tools and materials required to help you make many of the repairs you need. Volunteer fixers will be on hand to help and guide the repairs. You can enjoy a cup of tea or coffee or even lend a hand with someone else’s repair job.

A Repair Café is not a place to drop off your items to be fixed and picked-up at a later time. We request that you stay on-site while your item is being repaired. Visit repaircafe.org to learn more. 

Goals of the Repair Café:

1. To bring back repair into local society in a modern way;

2. To maintain repair expertise and to spread this knowledge;

3. To promote social cohesion in the local community by connecting neighbours from very different backgrounds and with different motives through an inspiring and low-key event.

The Repair Café is brought to you in partnership by the District of Squamish and Squamish CAN (Climate Action Network).