Free
Bring a small, broken item with you and our repair specialists will examine your item to see if either they can help you mend it or can recommend what can be done with it.
Clothes - our volunteer will examine your item and carrying out mending skills such as sewing on a missing or loose button, hemming tricks and tips for alterations, and repairing small holes. If you need a specific colour of fabric or thread and you have that, please bring it with you. Please bring spare buttons and if you need a new zip, please buy that and bring it with you.
Small electrical appliances - our expert electrician will look at small household electrical appliances and either help you mend it or recommend what can be done with it. If it needs a new plug, lead or fuse, please bring this with you.
(Please note our repair specialists will not repair items which require hot works or items which have lithium-ion batteries.)
We recommend bringing ONE broken item with you. This is to cut down on unnecessary waiting times during busy periods. If you have more than one item to be examined you will be asked to join the back of the queue if you have a second item for repair.
Though the Repair Café is free, we ask you to book a ticket to help us see how many people we will be expecting.
Our Repair Café is part of a collaboration between Poplar HARCA, St Margaret’s House, The Royal Foundation of St. Katherine and Poplar Union who host a series of monthly Repair Café across Tower Hamlets.
Please find more information about this collaboration here.