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The Groves Repair and Share

@grovesrepaircafe.bsky.social

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We run a monthly Repair Cafe in the Groves area of York, UK. Working towards adding a Library of Things.

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The Groves Repair and Share @grovesrepaircafe.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

This morning!

Poster advertising The Groves Repair Cafe today.

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The Groves Repair and Share @grovesrepaircafe.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

At today’s Repair Cafe we are offering a sharpening service for garden hand tools. Keeping tools clean and sharp helps enormously with their functionality and long life, so we’re really happy to be able to offer this service. Do yours need some care and attention?

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The Groves Repair and Share @grovesrepaircafe.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Our next Repair Cafe session is this coming Saturday 25th April. Bring your broken items and let our wonderful volunteer fixers (hopefully) bring them back to life!

Poster advertising The Groves Repair Cafe, Saturday 25th April, 9.30am to 12 noon at St Thomas Church Hall, Lowther Street, York, YO31 7ND.

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The Groves Repair and Share @grovesrepaircafe.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Some of this morning’s repairs. Many bikes, a 30 year old much-loved jacket, an assortment of electronics. As always, it is a pleasure to bring things back to life and use.

Hand stitching the cuff of a 30 year-old jacket

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The Groves Repair and Share @grovesrepaircafe.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

It was a wonderful and slightly surreal experience to be at this event!

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The Groves Repair and Share @grovesrepaircafe.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

If your guesses involved CD players, you’d have won! Several were fixed yesterday, alongside many items of clothing, a kettle and more.

A pink kettle that now works well. Electrical fixes are also PAT tested before being returned to their owners.

A CD player with a malfunctioning drawer. Opening things up and seeing their innards is always interesting for our volunteers and visitors. This was fixed and sent back home for hopefully a long, happy and musical life.

One of our expert sewing volunteers working on a dress. Sewing is always a popular repair. Some visitors are happy to ask for tips and sit mending their own clothes with the support of a volunteer nearby, while others are more complex and are done by our skilled volunteers.

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The Groves Repair and Share @grovesrepaircafe.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Other recent Repair Cafe fixes. What will we work on tomorrow? Any guesses?

A yellow knitted blanket that arrived with a ladder running down it. Our knitting expert was able to rework the correct stitches up the ladder and make it as good as new.

An ornamental lampshade needed securing, and after mending was taken home to display once more.

This purple fabric footstool was coming apart and needed taken apart and making strong again. It’s now ready for many years more use.

One of our skilled electrical volunteers working on a pair of headphones. These are really popular items to bring in, and these were made usable once more.

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The Groves Repair and Share @grovesrepaircafe.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Last month our first fixed item was this small music box that now sings again. What will the first item through the door be this time?

A small wooden music box is being investigated by one of our volunteers.

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The Groves Repair and Share @grovesrepaircafe.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Our next Repair Cafe session is coming up on Saturday 28th February. Bring your broken items, come and discover what a repair cafe is like, or see if you’d like to offer your skills to help others- all are welcome!

Poster advertising The Groves Repair Cafe, 9.30am- 12 noon at St Thomas Church Hall, Lowther Street, York.

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The Groves Repair and Share @grovesrepaircafe.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

We had a great first Repair Cafe of the year today. This clock was one of the many and varied items that were brought in for some care, alongside skiing trousers, a sander, a musical box, headphones and plenty more.

A large wall clock is being examined by a volunteer fixers and the clock’s owner. In the background other volunteers are working on sewing mends.

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The Groves Repair and Share @grovesrepaircafe.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Our next Repair Cafe will take place this coming Saturday 31st January between 9.30am and 12 noon at St Thomas’ Church Hall, Lowther Street, YO31 7ND. Come with your broken items, come for the cake and drinks, come to learn new skills or offer your own, come just to see what a Repair Cafe is like!

Image of a poster showing a volunteer fixing electronics and details of our repair cafe session: Saturday 31st January from 9.30am to 12 noon at St Thomas’ Church Hall, Lowther Street.

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