Community Resources Network Ireland CRNI

Community Resources Network Ireland CRNI Community Resources Network Ireland (CRNI) is the all-island network for community reuse, recycling and waste prevention organisations.

Registered Charity No. 20077259.

And that’s a wrap on Reuse and Repair Week 2026!Here's a little recap of what went down:🚄 A repair café in Grand Central...
12/06/2026

And that’s a wrap on Reuse and Repair Week 2026!

Here's a little recap of what went down:
🚄 A repair café in Grand Central Station, Belfast, organised by our friends at NIRN - Northern Ireland Resources Network , where repairers from across the island showed up, rolled up their sleeves, and got fixing. With speakers from the Northern Irish Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs and RREUSE in the mix too, it set the tone for the whole week.
🛠️ Our members brought repair and reuse to life in their own corners of the island!
🌐 We wrapped up our Repair in Practice webinar series, funded by Community Foundation Ireland, with three sessions of honest, practical wisdom from repair initiatives in Scotland. Our big takeaway: repair thrives when it's visible, accessible, and backed by the community around it.

This Week reminded us of something important: repair thrives when it's embedded in the community, visible, accessible, and supported by local networks and local authorities.

Thank you to our members for their initiatives, to NIRN - Northern Ireland Resources Network for the collaboration, and to Community Foundation Ireland for the support for the webinar series.

This World Environment Day, what better way to celebrate Mother Earth than getting involved in Reuse and Repair Week 202...
05/06/2026

This World Environment Day, what better way to celebrate Mother Earth than getting involved in Reuse and Repair Week 2026? 🌍🛠️

Running until 6 June, the week is a celebration of the communities, skills and spaces across Ireland keeping things out of landfill and in our lives a little longer. Whether you have something that needs fixing or just want to explore what's on near you, there's still time to get involved.
See in the pictures some of our members' activities this week: An Mheitheal Rothar (Galway's Bike Workshop), Clonmel Repair Café, Change Clothes.
Visit your local repair café or reuse initiative, and head to crni.ie to find upcoming events near you. 🔗

That's a wrap on our Repair in Practice: Shared Challenges & Shared Solutions webinar series, organised as part of Reuse...
04/06/2026

That's a wrap on our Repair in Practice: Shared Challenges & Shared Solutions webinar series, organised as part of Reuse and Repair Week 2026! 🛠️🎉

We closed out with today's session on the Operational Realities of Community Repair, featuring Udny Repair Cafe, facilitated by Clonmel Repair Café. Udny Repair Cafe is entirely volunteer-led and embedded in a small, tight-knit local community, and the speaker gave us an honest, warm and inspiring look at what the day-to-day of community repair actually involves: the people, the logistics, and the community spirit that keeps it all going.

Beyond the nuts and bolts of running a repair café, our speaker also explored something bigger: the role of the wider local community and network in driving environmental and climate action, and the vital support that gives to repair initiatives like this one.

Small community. Big impact. 💚

Thank you to everyone who joined us across all three sessions this Reuse and Repair Week 2026. Huge thanks to our speakers from across Scotland, to Clonmel Repair Café for facilitating, and to Community Foundation Ireland for funding this series and making it possible.

Want to take part in other Reuse and Repair Week initiatives? Keep an eye on our social media and visit crni.ie for a recap of everything going on! 🔗

Repair back on the main street: that's the vision, and Session 2 of our Repair in Practice webinar series, organised as ...
03/06/2026

Repair back on the main street: that's the vision, and Session 2 of our Repair in Practice webinar series, organised as part of Reuse and Repair Week 2026, showed us it's already happening! 🛠️

Facilitated by Clonmel Repair Café , we were joined by Linlithgow Community Development Trust, who gave us a compelling look at what it means to position repair within the circular economy, and to make it truly visible in a community.
Linlithgow Community Development Trust have done something that many repair initiatives dream of: bringing repair back to the main street. A repair shop that's accessible, right in the middle of town, in the heart of where people live and shop. More than a service, it's a statement: that repair belongs in everyday life, and that we can shift how communities think about and value the things they own.
The session sparked a great discussion with participants, and it's exactly the kind of practical, inspiring learning-sharing this series is all about.

🚨 Don't miss the final session TOMORROW!
📅 Thursday, 2–3pm. Session 3 - Operational realities of community repair initiatives with the Udny Repair Cafe .
Sign up at crni.ie 🔗

Session 1 of our Repair in Practice: Shared Challenges & Shared Solutions webinar series happened today as part of Reuse...
02/06/2026

Session 1 of our Repair in Practice: Shared Challenges & Shared Solutions webinar series happened today as part of Reuse and Repair Week 2026! 🛠️

Facilitated by Clonmel Repair Café, we were joined by The General Store, Selkirk Repairmonger. The Repair Monger is a one-of-a-kind charity offering repair services across 4 premises in the town, 6 days a week, while also selling donated goods. Our speaker gave us a candid, inspiring insight into how they operate: their business model, their team, how they think about and approach funding, and their experience in operating a repair charity in a small town. Exactly the kind of real-world knowledge-sharing this series is all about, and it led to an engaged discussion with the participants.

Two more sessions to go this week:
- Wednesday, 2-3pm. Session 2 - Positioning repair within the circular economy with the Linlithgow Community Development Trust;
- Thursday, 2–3pm. Session 3 - Operational realities of community repair initiatives with the Udny Repair Cafe.
Take the opportunity to listen to successful repair initiatives and engage with others on how to establish a repair social enterprise!
Sign up at crni.ie 🔗

Reuse & Repair Week 2026 is officially underway, and what a launch it was! 🎉A huge well done to our sister organisation ...
02/06/2026

Reuse & Repair Week 2026 is officially underway, and what a launch it was! 🎉

A huge well done to our sister organisation NIRN - Northern Ireland Resources Network for organising Saturday's launch event at Grand Central Station in Belfast. As a shared island initiative, this week means so much more when we come together like this, and NIRN set the tone brilliantly.

Repairers from NIRN members and our very own CRNI members TOG - Dublin Hackerspace and Buíon Phort Láirge were on hand to fix people's items on the day. Watching them work was a powerful reminder of just how much skill, creativity and innovation exists in our communities, and of why reuse and repair should always be the first option, not an afterthought.

Northern Ireland's Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Andrew Muir and Jana Zurkova, Deputy Director of RREUSE (Europe's largest network of social enterprises in the circular economy), both spoke at the event. Their contributions reinforced what we know to be true: that cross-community, cross-border cooperation is essential if we’re serious about diverting waste from landfill and building a genuinely circular economy. The skills and innovation are out there, we just need to keep working together to make them count.

Reuse & Repair Week runs until Saturday 6th June with events across the island.

Events organised by CRNI: crni.ie/news/upcoming-events-reuse-repair-week-2026
Events organised by NIRN: ni-rn.com/repair-week-events

Also this week, CRNI is hosting Repair in Practice: Shared Challenges & Shared Solutions, a three-part online peer learning series running Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (2–3pm each day).
Facilitated by CRNI member Clonmel Repair Café , each session digs into a different theme, building resilient repair initiatives, positioning repair within the circular economy, and the operational realities of running community repair, with guest speakers from established repair organisations in Scotland sharing their experience. Sessions are individually ticketed and registration is open via our website.

Repair in Practice : Online SeriesAs part of Reuse & Repair Week 2026 (May 30th - June 6th) , we’re hosting a 3-part onl...
27/05/2026

Repair in Practice : Online Series

As part of Reuse & Repair Week 2026 (May 30th - June 6th) , we’re hosting a 3-part online peer learning series bringing together repair initiatives from across the Island of Ireland.

Each session will feature insights from established community repair organisations based in Scotland, The General Store, Selkirk Repairmonger, Linlithgow Community Development Trust and Udny Repair Cafe.

These organisations will share their experience, learning and journey in developing their repair initiatives and the sessions will be facilitated by CRNI member Clonmel Repair Café

The sessions will run from 2-3pm on June 2nd, 3rd and 4th and each session is individually ticketed, so you can join one, two or all three depending on your interest.

We’ll be exploring:

1.Building Resilient Repair Initiatives- exploring sustainability, capacity and long-term resilience within community repair

3.Positioning Repair Within the Circular Economy- advocacy, visibility and strengthening the culture of repair

3.Operational Realities of Community Repair- systems, logistics and managing repair activity in practice

Each session is a space to connect, share learning and strengthen the repair community.

Register for the sessions here: https://shorturl.at/79lix

CRNI's Aidan Ó Gormáin joined presenter Stephen Gleeson on Tipp FM's Tipp Today show on Friday to talk about the first e...
25/05/2026

CRNI's Aidan Ó Gormáin joined presenter Stephen Gleeson on Tipp FM's Tipp Today show on Friday to talk about the first ever National Reuse and Repair Week being organised on a shared Island basis by NIRN - Northern Ireland Resources Network and Community Resources Network Ireland (CRNI).

This celebration of Reuse and Repair will run from May 30th to June 6th with events organised across the Island. Stephen and Aidan also discussed the the growing interest in practical, community-based repair across Tipperary including an information meeting being organised by North Tipperary Development Company the Scouts Hall in Nenagh this Saturday to discuss the establishment of a Repair Café in Nenagh.

They spoke about some of the events taking place during Reuse and Repaid week from the Launch next Saturday which will see a Repair Café take place in Belfast's Grand Central Station, to Clothes Swaps , Bike Repair sessions and even Lamp Making demonstrations taking place across the country. The fantastic activity in Tipperary at The Circular Square Clonmel Repair Café who will be running a Repair Café on Saturday May 30th from 11.30 to 1.30 and a Bike Repair club on June 4th from 5.30 to 7.30 got special mention.

Excitement is building in CRNI and NIRN - Northern Ireland Resources Network for the celebrations ahead.
Thanks also to the funders and partners helping to make this work possible, particularly the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affair (DAERA)who have supported NIRN's efforts to grow this initiative into an Island wide celebration.

Great to see momentum building for repair, reuse and circular communities across the island.

Learn more about the events happening across Ireland here:
CRNI: https://crni.ie/news/upcoming-events-reuse-repair-week-2026/
NIRN: https://www.ni-rn.com/repair-week-events/

30/04/2026

We're delighted to welcome Repair Cafe Galway to the CRNI network.

Repair Cafe Galway is a volunteer-led, community-centred monthly repair café that launched in September 2025. In just a short time, it has grown from 5 volunteers to nearly 20.

Through their mission, they are building a more sustainable community by keeping items in use and sharing skills.

Meet Jeffry, Co-founder of Tog Hackerspace. For Jeffrey, repair is about more than fixing things. It’s about creativity,...
24/04/2026

Meet Jeffry, Co-founder of Tog Hackerspace.
For Jeffrey, repair is about more than fixing things. It’s about creativity, and connection. From vintage electronics to well-loved toys, every item tells a story, and each Repair Café brings people together to share them.

Through Tog, he’s helping people build skills, keep items in use, and see the value in what they already have.

Read his full Circular Story below.

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