The Royal Academy of Engineering funded MAKERS project is moving into its next phase, with the UWE Bristol Repair Café set to launch in October.
Students, staff, and members of the public are invited to come along to the sessions with their broken items to get them fixed by a team of student and community repair volunteers. These items can include electricals and small appliances, clothes, and anything else that can be glued, soldered, or stitched (there won’t be any capacity to fix tablets, laptops, or mobile phones, though the technical repair company Fix My Crack, which runs a pop-up on campus will be able to help with those). Repairers of electrical and electronic items will receive guidance and support from the school’s skilled technicians, ensuring all repairs are done in a safe manner, and to a high standard. There will also be food and refreshments on offer for them.
UWE Bristol’s Repair Café runs every second Wednesday of the month, 12.15 – 1.45pm in the Atrium of Z Block (School of Engineering)
- Upcoming dates are:
- 11th October 2023
- 8th November 2023
- 13th December 2023
- 10th January 2024
- 14th February 2024
- 13th March 2024
- 10th April 2024
More information can be found here.
How to get involved as a repair volunteer
Students and community partners from the wider Bristol Repair Café network are invited to get involved as repair volunteers in the monthly sessions. Please email kat.corbett@uwe.ac.uk for more information and to register your interest, or just drop in on the day of the session at 11.45am.
Other ways to get involved in MAKERS
The Repair Café and Repair Skills workshops are only some of the activities in the pipeline for the MAKERS project. People interested in getting involved in future activities can find out more and register their interest via the MAKERS Sway site.