Repair Cafe - Textile Goods Repairer
Poplar HARCA
Poplar HARCA is running a Repair Café where members of the public can bring in a broken item to be repaired, for free, by a skilled and experienced volunteer. We are looking for Textile Goods Repairers who can use their experience and volunteer their time at our Repair Café to mend textile items. This could include clothing, furnishings and household goods. You'll save items from landfill and reduce residents' costs. Volunteers are needed on Tuesday from 12.40pm to 4pm once a month.
A Repair Café is a community project where members of the public can bring in a broken item to be repaired, for free, by a skilled and experienced volunteer. Poplar HARCA is running a Repair Café to help support our residents within the local community. By attending a Repair Café they can reduce costs/spending on buying new products or paying for a repair job. Repair Cafes also have a positive impact as they might save an item which has an easy fix from ending up in landfill. This reduces textile/electronic wastage, two industries known for their devastating effects on our environment. We are looking for Textile Goods Repairers who can use their experience and volunteer their time at our Repair Café to mend textile items. This could include clothing, furnishings and household goods. We will have a sewing machine for you to use on the day and a variety of buttons, threads and zips. If attendees need specific items for their damaged item, we will communicate to them that they are expected to bring these items with them. If you have specific tools or equipment you like to work with, you may bring them with you. You role will be to examine damaged textile goods (cushion covers, missing buttons, holes in clothes, etc.) to see if they can be repaired. If you think the item can be repaired, you'll use your skills and experience to mend it. If you can’t repair the item, or the item is beyond repair, you'll signpost the attendee. We hope the Repair Café will run at Feldy once a month. Dates will be sent out ahead of time. Volunteers will be needed on Tuesdays from 12.30pm to 4pm once a month.
Practical Work & DIY
Creative & Design
• This opportunity is ideal for people who have experience in mending textile goods, especially sewing. We will ask you to tell us about your experience on our application form. • You will be friendly, welcoming and enthusiastic about repairing items.
• You will have a full induction, followed by ongoing support • You will have a named Poplar Harca contact and regular opportunities for volunteering review sessions • You will be offered opportunities to attend training relevant to your role and to centre activity • You will receive agreed travel expenses, and can claim lunch expenses if you volunteer for more than five hours per day • We will provide you with an honest reference, regardless of how long you are with us • We are committed to providing a safe and supportive environment. • We will have refreshments for volunteers at the Repair Café.
One Tuesday afternoon, 12.30pm to 4pm, once a month
E14 0XA
The Feldy, 18 Aberfeldy Square, Poplar, London
Tube: Canning Town - Jubilee Line DLR: Canning Town, East India Bus: 115
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