Join us at St Margaret's House for our Repair Cafe!
We'll help you mend and repair items including:
Clothes, hats and bags - our volunteers will guide you through mending skills such as how to sew on a missing or loose button, hemming tricks and tips for alterations, and how to repair small holes. If you need a specific colour of fabric or thread and you have that, please bring it with you. Please bring spare buttons and if you need a new zip, please buy that and bring it with you.
Small electrical appliances - our volunteer electrician will look at small household electrical appliances and either help you mend it or recommend what can be done with it. If it needs a new plug, please bring one with you.
IT equipment - bring in any items that don't work as well as they used to, or any IT issues you're facing, and our volunteer will do their best to help resolve the issue or recommend solutions.
We’re delighted that we will also be joined by Tower Hamlets Wheelers for our April Repair Cafe. They will be able to help you with small bike repairs and will be based in the parking area of St Margaret’s House behind 17 Old Ford Road.
Please be aware that the volunteers give their time for free to help you mend and repair.
If we help you, a donation made to St Margaret’s House on the day would be very gratefully received.
If you would like to volunteer with us we would love your help. Please fill out this form and we will get in touch with you shortly.
Our Repair Cafe is part of a collaboration between St Margaret’s House, The Royal Foundation of St. Katherine and Poplar Union who host a series of monthly Repair Cafe across Tower Hamlets. Please find more information about this collaboration here.
Image credit: Chuck Blue Lowry.
Contact: If you have any questions regarding this session, please email programming@stmargaretshouse.org.uk
Venue: The Mulberry Hall at St Margaret's House, 21 Old Ford Road — E2 9PL
Access: If you have any access needs of which we should be aware, please get in touch with us on 020 8980 2092 or email programming@stmargaretshouse.org.uk so we can arrange this for you.
Time: 10am-1pm (We advise you to come closer to 10am for us to guarantee that we can get to you and your repair)
Tickets: Though the Repair Cafe is free, we ask you to book a ticket to help us see how many people we will be expecting.