Medway Repair Café

27/03/2026

The visit to House of Commons to represent Medway Repair Café was a proud one.
Although none of the Medway MPs could make it, it was great to see a huge MP support for the Repair and Reuse Declaration MPs so far signed it, 91 came and talked to us.

Mary Creagh MP (Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) said there is a massive push towards increasing consumers rights to repair.

What I got from it, apart from realising how many of Cafés are out there, was meeting a whole lot of likeminded people, great ideas and opportunities to collaborate and share our knowledge.
It’s everyone’s business to change wasting into new life for objects around us. Just try, start small. 🤗👍

If you feel strong about the right to repair sign the Declaration and support this growing pressure on MPs.

https://repairreusedeclaration.uk/sign/

25/03/2026

Medway Repair Cafe team member to attend UK Parliament to ask MPs to fix our throwaway economy.

Today, 25th March, one of us from Medway Repair Cafe will be joining repair groups from across the UK at a repair cafe in Parliament, to call for policies to make it easier to repair our things.

The event is organised by The Restart Project (https://therestartproject.org/) and Back Market https://www.backmarket.co.uk/en-gb, and supported by other organisations including SUEZ and Green Alliance.
The Restart Project and Back Market have run similar events for the last two years, attended by 60 MPs.
This year, the event will be even bigger, with around 100 repair groups expected to be represented from all four UK nations. They will be calling for ambitious repair and reuse policies and celebrating over 100 MPs that have signed up to the Repair and Reuse Declaration.
https://repairreusedeclaration.uk

With the Circular Economy Growth Plan due to publish their recommendations this spring, the repair community is taking a timely chance to influence their local politicians. 4 in 5 people in the UK want the government to support repair more. It reduces our impact on the planet, saves us money and can be incredibly rewarding. But for repair and reuse to thrive in the UK, we need real policy change to support it.

Medway Repair Cafe hopes to meet local MP, Rachel Edwards, Tristan Osborne and/or Naushabah Khan at the event in Parliament, and will encourage either of them to sign the UK Repair and Reuse Declaration/ at which they will celebrate Rachel, Tristan or Naushabah being one of almost 100 MPs to support the Declaration. They will discuss measures that they hope to see taken forward from the Circular Economy Growth Plan.

If you have the same mind of us and want to support our right for repair to be implemented by law, please support the Repair and Reuse Declaration and sign it too.
https://repairreusedeclaration.uk

Thank yo for your ongoing support.
Medway Repair Cafe Team

08/03/2026

📢Attention please:
Medway Repair Cafe programme for 2026-2027 is out!!!📢

If anyone requires an official poster in a file to print and/or display, please do let me know on Facebook Messenger 🤗

08/03/2026

The late February Repair Cafe in Twydall was a busy one (which we love). The local folks and those from further afield clearly started getting their spring items into shape.
Bicycles, garden tools, and even our first exercise bike, all were given a good look and treatment.🛠️🪛🔧
We also prepared one Christmas jumper for next Christmas.
All the various and wonderful items, keep coming planet conscious people. 🫶🤗

12/02/2026

In January the Medway Repair Café celebrated 2 years anniversary. 🍾

The team gathered in Strood Library to acknowledge the work done. When added together, the numbers sounded huge. 🧮📈
A few local councillors came to meet us, including the lovely Councillor Nina Gurung, who has supported us from the start. The recognition felt good though we are all rather modest. 😇

We have another exciting year ahead and already making plans and putting together our schedule of Repair Cafés from April onwards.🔭

So, stay tuned, the programme will go up soon. ⏰

16/01/2026

A cheer up wish to our 2nd Birthday 🎂 from the Leader. 🙂 Thank you, Maple!

03/01/2026

03/01/2026

HAPPY New Year 2026 from Medway Repair Café 🥳🫶🎆

All our Repair Café Team are proud of our successes and welcome year 2026 with great hopes and expectations.🤩

Our journey started 2 years ago and we since:
📍Have held 13 events each year, in 12 different libraries across Medway.

📍Have had from 7 up to 15 volunteers during each event helping to fix and mend visitors’ broken items.

📍Have managed to fix anywhere between 2/3 to 3/4 of all brought items.

📍Have created a friendly and supportive community of likeminded people which has attracted 8 new volunteers over the time.

📍 Have had 1 out of 4 customers come back again and again.

📍Have won a local Council prize for making a real change to the local citizens.

We tested our brains🧠, persistence and dedication to reuse rather than throw away.
And we’ve had LOADS of fun 🤡along the way.

In 2026 we have plans:📝

✅ We would like to increase our publicity and engage with the younger communities (adults 40 and below and children) where the habit of mending and fixing is weak or lacking completely.
✅ We’d like to inspire others to look after things and to continue our example on their own.

Thank you for following us, for coming and for NOT throwing away by default. 🙏

14/10/2025

14/10/2025

Last Saturday Repair Cafe in Walderslade Hook Meadow Library. Small library but huge attendance. The word must be spreading!!! 🥰
Both, the electrical and sewing teams were busy and had many satisfied customers walking home with: shortened trousers, moving a woofing mechanical dog, favourite handbags and more. 🤩
We loved Walderslade folks!!!

07/06/2025

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📢 We're taking repair back to parliament! ⁠
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Last year, we brought together 30 MPs and many community repair groups from around the UK to parliament for a historic repair cafe 💥⁠
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This year we want to build on that success by reaching even more MPs, building more support for the and urging the Circular Economy Taskforce to include ambitious Right to Repair measures in their recommendations to the government.⁠
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We're teaming up again with the CRN and Back Market, and on the 11th of June, we’ll arrive with our toolkits to show them first hand why repair and reuse matter and how the right policies can make it more accessible for all of us 🪛⁠
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✒️ Now, we need your help to make sure your local MP comes along. ⁠
Please ask your MP to attend, using our tool at: https://therestartproject.org/campaigns/repair-reuse-declaration/