Unley Repair Cafe

30/05/2026

Thanks for joining us for another busy morning at repair cafe ❤️🔧

21/05/2026

Huge thanks to our always amazing volunteer team 👏

Since opening, this amazing crew has saved over 5 tonnes of waste from landfill!

30/04/2026

Help Shape Unley's Climate Future

We're looking for community-led solutions for:

⚡ reducing energy emissions
🚲 reducing transport emissions
♻️ reducing waste emissions
🌿 preparing for a changing climate

Have Your Say at yoursay.unley.sa.gov.au/community-climate-ideas

25/04/2026

Thanks for coming along to repair cafe! Today we saw 81 items, ate ANZAC biscuits and cake, and celebrated 5 years of service with the wonderful Judy and Sue. Thanks for repairing with us for 8 years!

22/04/2026

Looking for somewhere to mend in public this Saturday?
Get inspired and come hang with us at repair cafe!
Self-repairing is always welcome in our mending circle!

28/03/2026

Another busy day of repairing - thank you all for coming along!

05/02/2026

Welcome to our new followers! ❤️

Here are a few FAQs for those of you who might be learning about us for the first time!

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝗳𝗲?
A repair cafe is a place where neighbours come together to share skills and learn to repair together over a cuppa!
A group of handy people volunteer as ‘repairers’ and at repair cafe sessions visitors bring along broken household items for potential repair.
You will be introduced to an appropriately skilled volunteer and will work together to troubleshoot and hopefully fix your item together. We are successful roughly 85% of the time, but even if your item isn’t fixed you’ll walk away with new skills and friends!
We are a free event, with tea, coffee and snacks available for a gold coin donation. Though we do welcome donations to help with our operating costs.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝗳𝗲?
We are happy to have a go at almost any small household item that you can carry into the hall. Check out our facebook photo albums for lots of examples!

Our volunteers are skilled with:
- low voltage electrical and electronic items (no coffee machines or microwaves)
- general household items (eg. small wooden items, gluing broken ceramics or shoes, mechanical toys or implements, spectacle repairs, tool sharpening etc.)
- jewellery (eg. fixing clasps or rethreading beads)
- teddy bears and dolls
- machine sewing (repairs only, no alterations, hems or zip replacements)
- hand mending of textiles (eg. Hand sewing, darning, crochet, needle felting holes in woollens)

Click ‘interested’ on our facebook events and we will let you know which volunteers will be attending in the days before the event.

𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗿𝘂𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝗳𝗲?
Some repair cafes are run by libraries or makerspaces, but most repair cafes in SA are just a group of volunteers who get together in a hired hall. Unley’s repair cafe is fully volunteer-run, with auspicing from Sustainable Communities SA Inc.

𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝗻?
Unley Repair Cafe is held on the last Saturday of each month from 9.30am until noon. No bookings are needed - just come along!

With 20 repair cafes now running across South Australia, there are sessions almost every weekend. Check out the link below for other SA repair cafes near you:

Repair cafés are becoming increasingly popular in South Australia. They offer a fun and sustainable way to fix broken items and save them from landfills. These cafés help the environment, empower people to learn new skills, and save money. The movement also advocates for changes like product repai...

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29/11/2025

This morning we finished up the year with a massive session - with over 100 items coming through our doors!
Thanks so much to our awesome 2025 volunteer crew, and thanks to our beautiful community for repairing with us!