Repair Café: Plaistow Library
Saturday, 17 January 2026
12:00 – 15:00
12:00 – 15:00
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#### Free entry. No booking needed, just turn up!
Join Restarters to diagnose and fix your broken, small household electricals.
Bring a bike for running repairs with Cycle Confident. On the spot clothing repairs with Caramel Rock.
Drop in Sashiko workshop with Mika Sembongi & pick up stylish visible mending skills.
Pop-up recycle point for unwanted small electrical items or cables.
Refresh your wardrobe at the clothes swap rail - bring up to two items of quality clothing to swap
PLUS traid - all ages winter coats swap
We do not accept: children's clothes, shoes, underwear, socks or tights
Free refreshments will be available on the day.
#### Getting there
Find Plaistow Library on the corner of North Street and Stirling Road.
It is a 7minute walk from Plaistow Underground station.
This venue has level access.
== Hosted by East London Repair Cafes ==
East London Waste Authority are working in partnership with four London boroughs - Barking & Dagenham, Havering, Newham and Redbridge to bring repair opportunities to local residents.
Through our Repair Cafes we hope to inspire others to share the repair message and set up their own repair cafes within our local communities.
If you are interested in supporting our repair cafes do get in touch - we'd love to hear from you.
Volunteering opportunities include:
Electrical Repair : help to fix electrical items
If you feel you need more experience you can be paired up with an experienced fixer
Data recording: to be able to measure the impact we record the age of the item, the issue, whether it can be repaired, what work is carried out and next steps.
All this information helps generate an accurate environmental impact score, including the waste prevented in KG and the estimated CO2 emissions prevented.
General event support: supporting with set up, signposting residents to the relevant information about reduce, reuse and repair initiatives and replenishing refreshments is a vital role within our Repair Cafes
https://eastlondonwaste.gov.uk/repair-cafes/
Learn more about Repair Cafés and how to start one at: https://therestartproject.org/
Join Restarters to diagnose and fix your broken, small household electricals.
Bring a bike for running repairs with Cycle Confident. On the spot clothing repairs with Caramel Rock.
Drop in Sashiko workshop with Mika Sembongi & pick up stylish visible mending skills.
Pop-up recycle point for unwanted small electrical items or cables.
Refresh your wardrobe at the clothes swap rail - bring up to two items of quality clothing to swap
PLUS traid - all ages winter coats swap
We do not accept: children's clothes, shoes, underwear, socks or tights
Free refreshments will be available on the day.
#### Getting there
Find Plaistow Library on the corner of North Street and Stirling Road.
It is a 7minute walk from Plaistow Underground station.
This venue has level access.
== Hosted by East London Repair Cafes ==
East London Waste Authority are working in partnership with four London boroughs - Barking & Dagenham, Havering, Newham and Redbridge to bring repair opportunities to local residents.
Through our Repair Cafes we hope to inspire others to share the repair message and set up their own repair cafes within our local communities.
If you are interested in supporting our repair cafes do get in touch - we'd love to hear from you.
Volunteering opportunities include:
Electrical Repair : help to fix electrical items
If you feel you need more experience you can be paired up with an experienced fixer
Data recording: to be able to measure the impact we record the age of the item, the issue, whether it can be repaired, what work is carried out and next steps.
All this information helps generate an accurate environmental impact score, including the waste prevented in KG and the estimated CO2 emissions prevented.
General event support: supporting with set up, signposting residents to the relevant information about reduce, reuse and repair initiatives and replenishing refreshments is a vital role within our Repair Cafes
https://eastlondonwaste.gov.uk/repair-cafes/
Learn more about Repair Cafés and how to start one at: https://therestartproject.org/
