A Repair Café is a free community event where neighbors bring in broken, worn, or beloved-but-well-used items and skilled volunteers help repair and restore them, keeping still-usable items out of landfills. Think small appliances, clothing repairs, furniture fixes, bicycle tune-ups, sharpening, soldering, you name it. If it’s busted, we’ll try to help you fix it.

This first Woodstock Repair Café is being organized by The Bunny Bin, Sustainable Woodstock, and Norman Williams Public Library. With your help, we can empower people to make small fixes themselves, save items that might otherwise end up in a landfill, and build connections along the way. Join your friends and neighbors – there will be activities for the whole family!

To get involved, share a skill or sponsor the event, please email or fill out this INTEREST FORM, and we’ll follow up with details.

Volunteer to fix things:

We invite local volunteers to launch Woodstock’s first-ever Repair Café, and we’re looking for the fixers, tinkerers, menders, and makers in our community to help bring it to life.

Because we live in both a trades desert and an aging community, many of our neighbors have small repairs piling up at home. If you are a professional, volunteer and bring your business cards, show off what you know, and make real connections with people who might need your skills now or down the road.

We’re looking for volunteers with skills in:

• Sewing, mending & alterations
• Stain removal & fabric rescue
• Cobbling & leather repair
• Electronics & small appliances
• Computer experts
• Woodworking, furniture & creative repurposing
• Bicycles, clocks & other mechanical devices
• Knife & tool sharpening
• Jewelry
• General “I’ll figure it out” energy

Bring things to be fixed:

Our goal is to help you mend small appliances, clothing, furniture, you name it, at no charge to you.

A few guidelines:

• Bring your own parts – plugs, wires, bolts, buttons, table legs, etc.
• One item per person per station.
• To keep things manageable: if you can’t carry it, please don’t bring it!
• Out of respect for our volunteers, please be sure your item isn’t musty or excessively dirty.

No appointment is needed; you can sign up for repairs at each station. We ask that you fill out this INTEREST FORM to help us plan.

Note: By bringing an item, you agree that Norman Williams Public Library, The Bunny Bin, Sustainable Woodstock, and our volunteers assume no liability for injury, damage, loss, or unsuccessful repair. All repairs are best-effort, as-is.