Goring Repair & Exchange Café is a free community service to help reduce waste and increase sustainability. It is primarily for Goring and Streatley residents, but anyone is welcome to use the service as avoiding any waste wherever we can is our main aim.
The service is run entirely by enthusiastic unpaid volunteers to help repair broken products and provide opportunities for people to exchange perfectly good products which are surplus to their requirements and take away someone else’s perfectly good products in return.
The first Goring Repair Cafe event took place in April 2023 and we currently hold 4 a year. We then launched the Exchange event to complement the Repair event to reduce waste even further.
Anyone can bring up to 2 broken items for our unpaid but skilled repairers to attempt to repair. We usually have between 14 - 16 repairers on duty each time along with 10 support volunteers. We have a 65-70% success rate and whether or not we are successful, a voluntary donation is always welcomed to cover the cost of hiring the hall and other necessary expenses.
Goring Gap Environmental Organisation (GGEO) organise these events as part of its charitable objectives to protect and enhance the environment. For further information, our main website is www.ggeo.online