New Repair Cafe opens its doors with our help

A new repair café has been launched in Cardiff helping local people to fix instead of throwing away broken items.  

Llanishen Eco Group launched the area’s first repair café in January. The volunteers who run the group came up with the idea for the ‘Repair Café’ to help local people to repair items that they can’t afford to replace and stop them from ending up in landfill.  

The group approached us as we have homes and offices in Llanishen and we provided funding to help cover set up costs. 

Councillor Bethan Proctor, Chair of Llanishen Eco Group, said: “We have been planning a repair café for almost a year, but it is only with this support from WWH that we could actually go ahead. The funding helped us to cover the costs of publicity, insurance, small materials and a PAT testing kit to ensure the safety of electrical items that are repaired. 

“Without the generous financial backing of WWH this project simply could not have taken its first step.”
Councillor Bethan Proctor, Chair of Llanishen Eco Group

“We are convinced that the café is helping local residents while also reducing waste and landfill. Beyond the environmental benefits and financial savings, we hope it will also become a regular event that the local community enjoy being a part of – whether as repairers, volunteers or visitors.”