Author name: Stuart Ward

Thanks to BBC Berkshire for highlighting Reading Repairium – Brought to you by Berkshire Repair Cafes’s work at Reading and Leeds Festival 2026.

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

We had 2 interesting umbrellas to fix at the Repair Cafe this month. Pauline had a very nice umbrella that the fabric had come away from the stays. Diane managed

The Reading Repair Cafes tend not to do bike repairs. That’s not because we don’t know how to repair bikes or don’t want to repair bikes. There are already two

We had a successful repair cafe this month. Highlights were av very happy little girl with her repaired toy. Thanks to Tim. And a tricky repair of the motor shaft

We were promoting Repair in all the Repair Cafes in Reading at the Caversham Bean Pole day. Also the Reading Library of things. Lots of tool sharping happening thanks to