Festive Share & Repair Café
November 2024
Thank you to all who braved the rain to join our festive Share & Repair Café, featuring a special toy swap, unusual repairs, inspiring speeches and some crafts and stories for the little ones.
For more information about the Open Gardens, check out their Facebook page Crich & Fritchley Open Gardens.
We were thrilled to welcome everyone to our recent Share and Repair Café on 23rd November at the Glebe Community Centre.
Alongside the seed swap, recycling collection, and eco raffle, we hosted a special toy swap so that children could pass along the toys and books they no longer use and choose replacements from a wide variety, thanks to Derbyshire Toy Libraries.
Whilst enjoying homemade soup and cakes, we heard inspiring speeches from CPRE Countryside Charity and Marches Energy, and Clare Limb made a very exciting announcement about a series of Make, Do and Mend workshops that will be on offer to residents in 2025.
The Repair team managed an incredible 44 repairs, including a book with sound effects, a stereo amplifier, a pair of cycling leggings and a toy train! Plus, we learned some amazing Japanese fabric-wrapping techniques, to minimise waste this Christmas.
What’s more, children and parents gathered together to craft festive angel decorations out of used paper and unwanted beads, create weird and wonderful crowns out of recycled materials and hear stories read by Clare and Hazel.
Thank you to all our amazing volunteers, and to all those who came along!
If you would like to know more about Transition Crich or are interested in being a volunteer at the next café please get in touch.
We need your consent to load the translations
We use a third-party service to translate the website content that may collect data about your activity. Please review the details in the privacy policy and accept the service to view the translations.