A Repair Café is a free community event. You bring your broken but beloved items and together with volunteer repair coaches. WE FIX THEM! People bring all kinds of things to a repair café:
CLOCKS & OTHER MECHANICAL ITEMS • CHAIRS FRAMES & OTHER WOODEN ITEMS
ELECTRICAL ITEMS & SMALL APPLIANCES • DIGITAL DEVICES • CLOTHING & TEXTILES
DOLLS STUFFED ANIMALS & TOYS • TOOLS IN NEED OF SHARPENING • JEWELRY AND MORE!
MOST ITEMS GET FIXED –
even when they don't – we have a good time trying!
Want to know about other Repair Cafe’s?
Sustainable Hudson Valley oversees all of the Repair Cafe’s in the Hudson Valley Region Click the Link below to find out more.
REPAIR CAFE COMES TO PLEASANT VALLEY
Don’t Toss It! Fix It !
Spearheaded by Jean Curlee, in conjunction with the Pleasant Valley Climate Smart Task Force, the Pleasant Valley Repair Café will finally become a reality on June 4, 2022 (Please check the Events Page for future Repair Cafés). It took a little longer than expected due to Covid, but we never stopped working and now are excited for the first event. Pleasant Valley is a rural–suburban community distinguished by its three main hamlet areas: Pleasant Valley, Salt Point, and Washington Hollow. Located in the center of Dutchess County it covers a wide area made up of farms, beautiful housing developments and a small town center a perfect location for the community based Repair Café.
With the support of the Town Board, the Climate Smart Task Force is moving the Town closer to becoming a more sustainable community. Keeping items out of landfills, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and preserving and sharing the skill of repairing in our community.
SPONSORS
Thank you to our sponsors, the Town of Peasant Valley, Madison’s Pizza & Catering and the many residents and neighbors who have signed up to volunteer their time to assist the mission of the Repair Revolution.
“Fixers transforming our throwaway culture.”
History.
The Repair Café idea was born in Amsterdam in 2009 and was brought to New Paltz by volunteer organizer John Wackman in 2013. His dedication enthusiasm and success inspired others to launch Repair Café events in their communities.
Repair Cafés are free meeting places and they’re all about repairing things (together). In the place where a Repair Café is located, you’ll find tools and materials to help you make any repairs you need. On clothes, furniture, electrical appliances, bicycles, crockery, appliances, toys, et cetera. You’ll also find expert volunteers, with repair skills in all kinds of fields.
Visitors bring their broken items from home. Together with the specialists they start making their repairs in the Repair Café. It’s an ongoing learning process. If you have nothing to repair, you can enjoy a cup of tea or coffee. Or you can lend a hand with someone else’s repair job.
Repair Café of the Hudson Valley & Catskills is a consortium of program organizers who support the work of repair in their communities. All events take place under the umbrella of a host or sponsoring organization in each town.
Repair Café of the Hudson Valley & Catskills has no independent legal or tax status.
WHY WE DO IT
• To transform our throw-away economy one beloved item at a time
• To reduce how much stuff goes into the waste stream
• To preserve traditional repair know-how & skills and pass them on
• To show the people who have this knowledge that they are valued
• To feed our curiosity about "the way things work" & have fun!
• To foster community sustainability and resilience
REPAIR CAFE HOUSERULES
- The work carried out in the Repair Café is performed free of charge on a voluntary basis by the repair experts at hand.
- Visitors carry out the repairs themselves whenever possible, but repair experts on site can help if necessary.
- The fact that the repairs are being performed by unpaid volunteers reflects the allocation of risks and limitation of liability: neither the organizers of the Repair Café nor the repair experts are liable for any loss that may result from advice or instructions concerning repairs, for the loss of items handed over for repair, for indirect or consequential loss or for any other kind of loss resulting from work performed in the Repair Café. The limitations set forth in these house rules shall not apply to claims declared justified on the basis of liability arising by virtue of applicable consumer protection legislation which cannot be lawfully superseded.
- A voluntary donation is greatly appreciated.
- Any use of new materials such as leads, plugs, fuses, patches or applications will be paid for separately.
- Visitors offering broken items for repair do so at their own risk.
- Experts making repairs offer no guarantee for the repairs carried out with their help and are not liable if objects that are repaired in the Repair Café turn out not to work properly at home.
- Repair experts are entitled to refuse to repair certain objects.
-Repair experts are not obliged to reassemble disassembled appliances that cannot be repaired.
- Visitors to Repair Café are solely responsible for the tidy removal of broken objects that could not be repaired.
-To cut down on unnecessary waiting times during busy periods, a maximum of ONE broken item per person will be examined. The visitor will join the back of the queue if there is a second item for repair.