The Repairium is a special Repair Café at the Festival Republic Reading Festival from Wed 26th to Sun 30th August. This is a collaborative event organised by all the Berkshire Repair cafes. If you want to get involved email us at festival@readingrepaircafe.org.uk
The event draws crowds of around 90,000 to 105,000 people per day, and is a famous end-of-summer rite of passage for teenagers and young adults. It heavily attracts those celebrating recent GCSE or A-Level results.
What is envisioned is something along the lines of what was done at the Boomtown event last year – you can read an article about it here
This wouldn’t be a traditional Repair Café – the focus would be on repairing things that attendees might have issues with at festivals such as:
- Camping gear
- Inflatable beds
- Chairs
- Trolleys
- Glasses/sunglasses
- Bags/rucksacks
- Shoes
- Cooking gear
- Clothing, etc.
Our aims at the event will be to:
- Reduce waste by repairing items during the event.
- Improve visitor experience by fixing essential items (chairs, airbeds, glasses, clothing).
- Promote the repair movement and connect people to local repair cafés and repair networks.
- Educate the visitors and encourage them not to leave behind items
- Raise money through donations for Berkshire Youth