It was another rainy day in Reading, so thankfully our task was indoors! Three GoodGymers helped at Reading Repair Cafe; booking in clients, allocating repairs to the experts and learning along the way!

Zelie quickly became a pro at getting clients booked in and making sure they understood the repair cafe rules.

During the session, 18 items were brought in, including a couple of vacuums, a sewing machine from Reading's Library of Things, a bag for mending, a pan, a couple of broken toasters and kettles and a few tables too!

Sevan, joining us from GoodGym Ealing, even got stuck in with trying to install Linux on a laptop, however the laptop wasn't up to the job today.

While not everything could be fixed this afternoon, 59kg of waste was prevented and we saved the CO2 equivalent of growing 6 trees, for 10 years!

I went to Reading Repair cafe for the second time, to help with the checking-in and recording of everything that got fixed during the session.

There was a steady stream of people bringing their items, with lots for the experts to help with! A tv that wouldn't turn on, a radio/cd player that wouldnt play CDs, some jeans to turn up and a hole in a jumper to mend, a kettle that wouldn't stay on, some tools to sharpen, an overlocker that wouldnt run, and a few printers that wouldn't print!

There was so much to do and lots of items were able to be fixed this week, saving over 250kg of C02 from being put into landfill, equivalent to over 5 trees being left to grow for 10 years! What a great outcome!

Sam, Jenni and Chris helped out at Reading Repair Cafe's monthly drop in session. The repair cafe helps people to repair their broken items, from sewing, to soldering!

Sam and Jenni were on the welcoming desk, getting people's items in the repair queue, while Chris got to work on fixing a vacuum cleaner he'd brought in. Sam had also brought a hairdryer and a blender in and was able to repair both!

Sion also joined us and helped out with some electrical testing of a carpet cleaner, with everyone learning how to PAT test electronic items too!

Throughout the afternoon, there was no end to people coming in with items and most of them were able to be repaired!

With recording everything that had come in, we were able to help save 46kg of items from being thrown away, reducing 202kg of CO2 emissions! Not bad for an afternoon of learning and helping!