Llangollen Repair Cafe moving to new home

* A volunteer repairer at work in the repair cafe's early days.

As it celebrates a successful first year Llangollen Repair Cafe has announced that it is moving to a new home.

Founder Michael Jepson said: The repair cafe has its first anniversary this month. Thank you to our visitors and the trustees of St Collen's Community Centre for helping us at the start.  

"The cafe has proved popular, with many visitors bringing a wide variety of items to be fixed, and leaving happy.

"We are now moving  to a new location at Llangollen Memorial Hall in Market Street, LL20 8PS, and with a new opening time of 10am-12noon. 

"We have fixed electrical items, toys, bags, clothing, sharpened tools, gardening equipment and much more. We also PAT test items too.  

"Items are fixed for free but the wonderful donations have helped us pay our rent, and excess will be used for volunteer training. We are a not for profit project run entirely by local volunteers and are not funded by the council."

He added: "Some visitors make use of our cafe, having a drink and homemade cake, enjoying meeting old friends and making new ones.

"It's always a vibrant welcoming space where people can watch things being repaired and learn new skills.

"We welcome new volunteers to help us, people who can fix things, or people who can welcome visitors, serve tea, help people with forms, and the  other things that need doing. We all help each other and have a good time. 

"If you want to learn new skills, gain experience or share your skills with others, come and have a chat with Michael and see how it works. 

"The next repair cafe is on Saturday May 17. See you there."