Lillydale Lake Repair Cafe Inc

16/10/2026

Happy weekend to our repair community.

Enjoy the sunshine 🌞 and outdoors!

The next repair session is Sunday 8th November (2nd Sunday of the month).

Bring your broken items to be looked at by our team of skilled repairers.

Where: Lillydale Lake Community Room
(above the playground inside complex)

Why: to restore a culture of repair in community, reduce landfill via repair efforts, teach community how to fix their items and build community connections.

Volunteers diagnose and repair your items for a donation.

Our aim is to support mother nature by keeping repairable items out of landfill and return to a culture of repair including teaching people how to fix their items.

We can no longer sustain a take make break system and must embrace the circular economy and fix what we can.

Available repairs

and new electrical 🔦
items including tools 🔧
and other sharpening 🔪
- all types see info below 💍
typewriters
lamps
pens 🖊
with machines 🪡


items by our Carpenter
items, smart devices, computers 🖥 📱 desktops, handheld devices
diagnosis and repairs 🚲

Free tea and coffee while you wait and watch the action in the hall. Toilets available on site.

Repairers will do their best to advise if any parts are required and where and what to buy if necessary.

New repairs to the team

******Wooden items******

If you have a broken wooden table, chair, precious smaller item or anything at all. Harry our qualified Carpenter is more than happy to help!

He takes items home to fix and you return for collection the following month from the hall.

******Jewellery repairs by Sarah******

Bring your gold, silver and fashion jewellery in to be looked at.

Sarah was born into a jewellery family and has been making & fixing for years

Sarah can diagnose the problem
Set gems - rubies, sapphires etc
Soldering to repair items
Replace posts on earings
Give advice on your beloved items
Materials costs will be advised on day

******New Sharpy Phil******

Offering knife sharpening & garden tools.

If your knives are struggling to cut butter, or your garden tools have forgotten what “sharp” means, bring them down and I’ll see what I can do! Phil is a Butcher and has lots of experience sharpening things.

Volunteers bring their own tools and equipment from home to fix your items

Tap and pay and cash donations available to cover project costs.

We have young people sitting with experienced repair volunteers and learning how to fix things so pls give them some encouragement.

Thanks to the Yarra Valley Fly Fishing Group for use of the hall.

Follow our page for updates and to stay in the loop with new repairs and news!

See you in November - bring good vibes

Toss it, no way!

Cheers

Rowan and the Repair team

03/10/2026

It's Spring cleaning time so bring your broken electrical, mechanical, digital, typewriter, sewing and fabric, bike repairs knife's and garden sheers, wooden items down today to be looked at by our skilled repairers.

1 electrical item per household due to high demand for this service.

See our page for more detailed information and hit the FOLLOW button to stay in the loop.

10am to noon sharp.

No electrical items after 11.30 pls.

Tap and pay and cash donations accepted

See you there

Address on main page and post

Toss it, no way!

Cheers

Rowan and the repair team

03/10/2026

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03/10/2026

October Repair session is on tomorrow Sunday 4th 10am to noon :)

Bring your broken items to be looked at by our team of skilled repairers.

Where: Lillydale Lake Community Room

(above the playground inside complex)

Why: to restore a culture of repair in community, reduce landfill via repair efforts, teach community how to fix their items and save money.

AVAILABLE REPAIRS

Old and new electrical X 2 people

Mechanical X 1

Digital devices, computers speakers etc

***E- waste drop off point****.

New computers are built with your donations and given to children in need.
Memories are wiped and given to the local tip to be recycled.

Sewing with machines X2 pls bring
buttons, new zips, remove old zip if able.

New Sharpy Phil coming tomorrow

Offering knife sharpening & garden tools.

If your knives are struggling to cut butter, or your garden tools have forgotten what “sharp” means, bring them down and I’ll see what I can do!

Wooden items with our Carpenter- he takes them home to fix and you collect the following month in the hall.
Chairs, small tables, anything wooden that can fit in his car!

Typewriters (arrive at 10am), fountain pens and oil lamps and lanterns.

Bicycle repairs and diagnosis

Jewellery repairs- bring your gold, silver and fashion jewellery in to be looked at.

Sarah can diagnose the problem and remedy
Set gems - rubies, sapphires etc
Soldering to repair items
replace posts and parts on your beloved items
Materials costs will be advised

Scissor sharpening and costume repairs not available in October

We accept donations to cover hall hire and materials costs for the project. Without donations we cannot run.

Volunteers bring their own tools and equipment from home to fix your items

Tap and pay and cash donations available to cover project costs.

Please appreciate we cannot give change to attendees.

We have some young people sitting with experienced repair volunteers and learning how to fix things so pls give them some encouragement.

Thanks to the Yarra Valley Fly Fishing Group for use of the hall.

See you tomorrow and grab a free tea or coffee from our dedicates tea lady while you wait.

We use a numbered queue system

See you on Sunday - bring good vibes

Toss it, no way!

Cheers

Rowan and the Repair team

30/09/2026

Have you been holding onto much loved jewellery that is broken because you don't know what to do next?

We now have a jewellery repair Volunteer

Here's a bit from Sarah

Born into a jewellery family, it is in my blood. My commitment is to diagnose and repair your precious items.

I can repair most bead and costume jewellery on site. Metal chains, bracelets, earrings, and rings, silver chains, bracelets and earrings depending upon what's needed.

I will be bringing plenty of silver parts, gold plated parts and gold fill parts, that may be enough for most needs.

I am not quite ready to offer gold repairs. There is a lot of expense involved. Parts are very expensive, and it needs to be the right carat and colour.

Bring your items in to be looked at

I look forward to seeing you on Sunday

Please comment below if you will bring jewellery on Sunday.

We are assessing community needs for this service and Sarah travels from Eltham to help you all.

See you on Sunday doors open 10am

Other repairs are listed on the main page.

Follow us to stay in the loop

Toss it, no way!

Cheers

Rowan and the Repair Team

29/09/2026

**New repairs available for community*

Seeking Expressions of interest in post

Do you have a wobbly chair or table?

A jewellery box or other small item?

Something wooden that needs some love and attention from a skilled Carpenter?

Don't throw them away- bring it in to Harry who has decades of experience as a Carpenter.

Harry will take your item home to fix and return the following month.

He has already fixed a range of small tables and chairs with great success 🙌

***Jewellery repairs by Sarah***

Have a chain that needs a new clasp?

A gem has fallen out of your precious item?

Some inherited jewellery that needs fixed and you're stuck not knowing next steps?
Fashion jewellery and earings that need ❤️

Whether it is gold, silver or fashion jewellery Sarah can likey diagnose and fix the problem.

The first step is having it looked at.

Costs for materials are paid by owner.

Come and have a chat with Sarah and see what she advises.

Both Harry and Sarah are at the October Repair Cafe and are waiting to look at your items.

Pls drop a comment on this post if you want jewellery and woodwork skills at your local repair cafe.

The hall is filling up and we need community input on what repairs are valuable.

All members of the team are volunteers and donate their time, skills, knowledge and tools to fix and diagnose your items.

See main page for further details of repair session

When: Sunday 4th October 10am to noon in Lillydale Lake Community Room
(Above the playground inside complex)

Follow our page to get real time updates and posts.

See you on Sunday

Toss it, no way!

Cheers

Rowan and the Repair team

29/09/2026

Spring is here and it's time to get out your broken stuff and give it some love

The next repair cafe is this Sunday October 4th 10am to noon :)

Bring your broken items to be looked at by our team of skilled repairers.

Available repairs

Old and new electrical X 2

Mechanical X 1

Digital items- devices, speakers, phones

Sewing with machines X2 pls bring
buttons, new zips, remove old zip if able.

Knife, garden, scissor, tool repairs & sharpening 1 item per person

Wooden items with our Carpenter- he takes them home to fix and you collect the following month in the hall.

Chairs, small tables, anything wooden!

Typewriters (arrive at 10am), fountain pens and oil lamps and lanterns.

Bicycle repairs and diagnosis.

****We have a new skill in the team****

Jewellery repairs by Sarah

Please bring your gold, silver and fashion jewellery in to be looked at.

Sarah can:

Diagnose the problem and remedy
Set gems - rubies, sapphires etc
Soldering to repair items
replace posts and parts on your beloved items
Materials costs will be advised

We accept donations to cover hall hire and materials costs for the project

Volunteers pack up and bring their own tools and equipment from home to fix your items each month and have expertise in their fields.

Tap and pay and cash donations available to cover project costs.

Please appreciate we cannot give change to attendees.

Where: Lillydale Lake Community Room
(above the playground inside complex)
When: Sunday 4th October 10am to noon
Why: to restore a culture of repair in community, reduce landfill via repair efforts and teach community how to fix their items.

We have some young people sitting with experienced repair volunteers and learning how to fix things so pls give them some encouragement.

Thanks to the Yarra Valley Fly Fishing Group for use of the hall.

See you on Sunday and grab a free tea or coffee from our dedicates tea lady while you wait.

We use a numbered queue system

See you on Sunday with good vibes only

Toss it, no way!

Cheers

Rowan and the Repair team

12/09/2026

Repair session is on tomorrow Sunday 13th September inside the lake complex

Where: Lillydale Lake Community Room
(Above the playground)

When: Sunday 13th September
10am to noon

Why: Keep items out of landfill and prevent useless waste of resources

Cost: A donation covers hall hire fees & project running costs for materials etc

Cash and tap and pay available

We can look at

Old and new electrical X 1 (1 away)
Most mechanical X 1 (1 away)
Sewing with machines X3 people
Digital, computers, devices & electronics
Manual typewriters
Oil lamps
Fountain pens
Woodwork
Bike repairs and diagnosis

Our repair team bring their own tools from home to fix your items each month.

We test electrical items pre and post repair

We are also an e-waste drop off point where your parts are used to fix items and donated to school children. The memory is wiped then recycled at the local transfer station by our qualified Software Engineer Guru, John.

See you on tomorrow and enjoy the Lake while you visit us.

Toss it, no way!

Cheers

Rowan & the repair team

11/09/2026

Hello to our repair community.

What a beautiful day of sunshine we have across the outer eastern suburbs :)

This Sunday 13th September is the next repair cafe so stop harbouring broken items in a cupboard and bring it down to be looked at.

Spring is here so it's the perfect time!

Where: Lillydale Lake Community Room

When: Sunday 13th September
10am to noon

Why: Keep items out of landfill

Cost: A donation covers hall hire and project running costs.

Free tea, coffee and toilets on site.

We can look at

Electrical
Mechanical
Sewing with machines X3 people
Knife, scissor & tool sharpening and repairs
Digital, computers, devices & electronics
Manual typewriters
Oil lamps
Fountain pens
Woodwork - a new service so pls support
Bike repairs and diagnosis
And more so take an hour to visit your local repair space

Limits may apply if busy

1 electrical item per household
1 knife sharpened per household

Our repair team bring their own tools from home to fix your items each month

We test electrical items pre and post repair.

Toss it, no way!

See you on Sunday

Cheers

Rowan & the repair team

08/09/2026

Hello to our repair community.

This Sunday 13th September is the next repair cafe

Where: Lillydale Lake Community Room
When: Sunday 13th September
10am to noon
Why: Keep items out of landfill
Cost: A donation covers hall hire and project running costs

We can look at

Electrical
Mechanical
Sewing with machines X3 people
Knife, scissor & tool sharpening and repairs
Digital, computers, devices & electronics
Manual typewriters
Oil lamps
Fountain pens
Woodwork
Bike repairs and diagnosis

Our repair team bring their own tools from home to fix your items.

We test electrical items pre and post repair

See you on Sunday

Cheers

Rowan & the repair team