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Proudly supported by

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Community Development Fund
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We are proud to announce that we have been awarded a grant from Knox City Council's Community Development Fund. This will enable us to scale up the Knox Repair Cafe team and extend our reach within the Knox community. We will also develop a Repair Online Matching Platform to allow you to make bookings and make best use of our expert repairers.

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KNOX REPAIR CAFE

Expert volunteers fixing household items to reduce hard rubbish in Knox

597 total kgs saved from landfill FYTD
CO2e avoided = 0.895 metric ton
 94% fix rate in last financial year 23-24

Who We Are & What We Do

We are a part of the Repair Cafe International Foundation, and our mission is to bring repair back to the heart of local communities. Our goal is to maintain and spread repair expertise, while promoting social cohesion by bringing together people from all walks of life.

You might ask, what is a Repair Cafe? A Repair Cafe is a temporary or "pop-up" workshop which encourages community camaraderie and the reduction of items being sent to hard waste by repairing broken items and teaching people how to utilise tools to make their own repairs at home.

 

At Knox Repair Cafe, we offer a variety of repair services for items such as clothing, furniture, electronics, and appliances. Our skilled repair experts are passionate about fixing broken items and giving them a new life, instead of throwing them away and contributing to the growing problem of waste and environmental damage.

Knox Repair Cafe is more than just a place to fix broken items. It's also a community hub where neighbors can come together, share knowledge, and learn new skills. We believe that repairing items is not only good for the environment but also for building strong, supportive communities. By working together, we can create a culture of repair that promotes sustainability and social cohesion.

We welcome everyone to our Repair Cafe, regardless of their background or experience with repair. Whether you need help fixing something, want to learn new repair skills, or simply want to connect with others in your community, we invite you to join us. Together, we can make repair a part of the local community once again.

 Our Next Workshops & Sessions

On the second Saturday of each month except January we are at

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Knox Environment Society, 1010 Burwood Highway, Ferntree Gully.

This is opposite Ferntree Gully Library and is accessed via the service road off Burwood Highway.

Due to the Public Holiday there will not be a session

at KES in June

On the fourth Saturday of each month except January we are at 

 

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Rowville Men's Shed, Police Road, Rowville.

This is a sharp left turn up a gravel road to the left/ East if you are travelling South on Stud Road, opposite the turn to Rowville Lakes.

Due to the Public Holiday there will not be a session at Rowville in September.

Our Clients Say

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"A massive thank you to Barry from Knox Repair Cafe for not only fixing a damaged cord but for also recreating a broken motor bracket on this amazing machine we had donated to Hallam Community Learning Centre. If you have anything that might need a little TLC and want to look at getting it fixed instead of adding it to landfill, get down to one of the repair sessions and see if someone there can help you out. Everyone involved in the cafe does so as volunteers for their time and skills, repairs are done on donations."

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What's New?
New Date 22nd June!

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June 22nd
Rowville Men's Shed
10.30 am start

We are holding a session with a focus on electronic devices such as CD players, DVD players, radios and so forth, on June 22nd at Rowville Men's Shed.

Aaron will talk us through the principles and practices of safe trouble-shooting and repairs on your own devices.

10.30 am start

 Please send us details of your device (make, model, problem) by clicking the button below so that Aaron can bring what he needs.

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Volunteers
Needed!
Email here

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At Knox Repair Cafe, we rely on the support of volunteers to carry out our mission of promoting repair as a means of reducing waste and building strong, supportive communities. We welcome volunteers from all walks of life. 

If you have repair skills or would like to learn new ones, we invite you to join our team and help us give broken items a new life. You can contribute to the community by sharing your skills and knowledge and learn from others at the same time.

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Join Us!

Contact Us

knoxrepaircafe@gmail.com

Instagram: @knox_repair_cafe

Facebook: Knox Repair Cafe

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