Repair Cafe Forest Row

Repair Cafe Forest Row The Forest Row Repair Cafe aims to help reduce waste by encouraging a repair culture in our community. A repair can save time, money and waste.

We are open on the 3rd Saturday of each month at the Community Centre, Hartfield Road, Forest Row, RH18 5DZ. Repair Cafe Requirement:
When bringing in any item to be repaired could you please make sure it is clean of any dirt or mud. All fabric items must be washed before you attend otherwise we may refuse to repair them. Thank you for your understanding and consideration of our repairers.

THIS SATURDAY! It's July's Forest Row Repair Cafe. Come along from 10am-1pm with last orders taken at 12.30pmDon't forge...
15/07/2026

THIS SATURDAY! It's July's Forest Row Repair Cafe. Come along from 10am-1pm with last orders taken at 12.30pm
Don't forget we have a few summer-specific mending services, such as:
- a patching service for nylon tents (for holes and rips smaller than 10cm).
- inflatables (including camping mattresses) - please mark the hole with a sharpie.
Our fabulous volunteer team includes repairers for:
Bikes 🚲
Ceramic items⚱️
Clocks ⏰
Clothes👗🪡
Computers💻
Down jacket rips (less than 10cm)
Electrics 📻
Electronics 🎮
Inflatables 🏖️ - please mark the hole with a marker pen.
Small furniture items🪑(chairs, stools, small tables)
Sharpening ✂️ (we often have availability for sharpening, so bring your blunt knives, scissors and gardening tools; there is a limit of six items per person, unless we're not busy)
Tent rips and tears (less than 10cm)⛺
Welly rips and tears
Wetsuits and neoprene rips 🏄
Our wonderful café will be open, selling delicious and reasonably priced cakes and refreshments while you wait. We look forward to seeing you.
Community Centre, Forest Row, RH18 5DZ.
Please remember we are often really busy at the beginning of the session, so if you can arrive a little later, that should save you waiting as long. Also, we are sorry to say that it's not possible to bring dogs into the Repair Cafe.

Well considering how busy the village was this weekend and the busy traffic, we actually had a decent amount of repairs ...
23/06/2026

Well considering how busy the village was this weekend and the busy traffic, we actually had a decent amount of repairs come in, with a queue out the door before 10!

So, we had 55 repairs in total:
These included:
22 Electrical
2 IT
4 Fabrics
2 Bikes
5 watches/clocks
8 Sharpening – possibly more
12 General repairs

Of these:
75% were repaired, which is a fantastic month.
11% could not be repaired.
11% were taken home.
And 3% were given advice.

40% of our visitors were from Forest Row
18% from East Grinstead
12% from Ashurst Wood
and the remaining 30% were from the surrounding villages and beyond.

We received some wonderful comments this month. It is always so good to hear how happy people are with all the hard work our willing and talented volunteers do for them.

Our next Café is on 18th July. Meanwhile keep cool and hope to see you then.

TODAY! It's June's Forest Row Repair Cafe. Come along from 10am-1pm with last orders taken at 12.30pmDon't forget we've ...
20/06/2026

TODAY! It's June's Forest Row Repair Cafe. Come along from 10am-1pm with last orders taken at 12.30pm
Don't forget we've launched a few new mending categories
- wellies, for splits and rips (but sadly not holes in the soles)
- a patching service for down jackets and nylon tents (for holes and rips smaller than 10cm).
Our fabulous volunteer team includes repairers for:
Bikes 🚲
Ceramic items⚱️
Clocks ⏰
Clothes👗🪡
Computers💻
Down jacket rips (less than 10cm)
Electrics 📻
Electronics 🎮
Small furniture items🪑(chairs, stools, small tables)
Sharpening ✂️ (we often have availability for sharpening, so bring your blunt knives, scissors and gardening tools; there is a limit of six items per person, unless we're not busy)
Tent rips and tears (less than 10cm)⛺
Welly rips and tears
Wetsuits and neoprene rips 🏄
Our wonderful café will be open, selling delicious and reasonably priced cakes and refreshments while you wait. We look forward to seeing you.
Community Centre, Forest Row, RH18 5DZ.
Please remember we are often really busy at the beginning of the session, so if you can arrive a little later, that should save you waiting as long. Also, we are sorry to say that it's not possible to bring dogs into the Repair Cafe.

THIS SATURDAY! It's June's Forest Row Repair Cafe. Come along from 10am-1pm with last orders taken at 12.30pmDon't forge...
18/06/2026

THIS SATURDAY! It's June's Forest Row Repair Cafe. Come along from 10am-1pm with last orders taken at 12.30pm
Don't forget we've launched a few new mending categories
- wellies, for splits and rips (but sadly not holes in the soles)
- a patching service for down jackets and nylon tents (for holes and rips smaller than 10cm).
Our fabulous volunteer team includes repairers for:
Bikes 🚲
Ceramic items⚱️
Clocks ⏰
Clothes👗🪡
Computers💻
Down jacket rips (less than 10cm)
Electrics 📻
Electronics 🎮
Small furniture items🪑(chairs, stools, small tables)
Sharpening ✂️ (we often have availability for sharpening, so bring your blunt knives, scissors and gardening tools; there is a limit of six items per person, unless we're not busy)
Tent rips and tears (less than 10cm)⛺
Welly rips and tears
Wetsuits and neoprene rips 🏄
Our wonderful café will be open, selling delicious and reasonably priced cakes and refreshments while you wait. We look forward to seeing you.
Community Centre, Forest Row, RH18 5DZ.
Please remember we are often really busy at the beginning of the session, so if you can arrive a little later, that should save you waiting as long. Also, we are sorry to say that it's not possible to bring dogs into the Repair Cafe.

This week is Volunteers Week, 1st-7th June, a week to celebrate and show our appreciation of all our wonderful volunteer...
01/06/2026

This week is Volunteers Week, 1st-7th June, a week to celebrate and show our appreciation of all our wonderful volunteers. 🌟

Our volunteers give so much to the Repair Cafe Forest Row each month, with so many teams that make it possible. Without you we wouldn’t be able to do the amazing job we do. 👏
Thank you to each and every one of you, you are absolute stars🌟.

Saturday was a quieter day for us at the May Forest Row Repair Café, we are not quite sure why, but those of you that ca...
19/05/2026

Saturday was a quieter day for us at the May Forest Row Repair Café, we are not quite sure why, but those of you that came it was lovely to see you.

We had 58 repairs brought in on Saturday, 1 came in too late for us to complete so they will be coming back next month.

The repairs completed were:
22 electricals
6 sewing
0 IT (as we had no repairers)
9 watches/clocks
4 sharpening
5 bikes (including 1 electric bike) and
11 general repairs

Of these 51% were repaired
21% could not be repaired
12% received advice and
14% were taken home by repairers so should end up in a repair.

59% were from Forest Row
18% from East Grinstead and the remainder were from the surrounding area.

Our next repair cafe is on 20th June, we hope to see you all then with your arms full of repairs.

16/05/2026

We have a good complement of electricals today now!!
So please come down if you have any repairs needed!

Address

The Community Centre
Forest Row
RH185DZ

Opening Hours

10am - 1pm

Telephone

01342 822661

Website

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