Join Ealing’s Electrical Repair Volunteer Team

We are looking for small electrical repair volunteers who are interested and know how to repair electrical items. If you have some knowledge and would like to learn more, get in touch with us by emailing ealingrepaircafe@gmail.com and join as a small electrical repair volunteer. We already run repair clothes sessions teaching how to mend clothes and would like to expand our offering for small electrical repair at some of our events.

We already partner with others for small electrical repair sessions and know they are popular in Ealing such as Acton Free Clothes & Electrical Repair event. Ealing Repair café get lots of enquiries about electrical repairs.  We would love to run more of small electrical repair events, so contact us. 

By volunteering you are helping people keep their small electrical items going for longer and not going to waste. You would be part of an award wining team, as we have been nominated for BBC Make a difference award and King’s Award for Voluntary Service Some events would also be paid work in partnership with others such as Ealing Council.

“I went on Saturday it’s a fantastic resource in the area. Saved an old lamp for going into landfill.”

About an electrical session run in Hanwell with Ealing Council.

We also count what we have repaired at our sessions:

What to know more about small electrical repair?

If you are interested to volunteer as a small electrical repair volunteer, there is lots of information and support out there. For how to get started and more information try:

• Going to see another repair cafe in action, such as Chiswick Repair Cafe or another Restart party to see repair in action
• Register for the brilliant Fixing Factory runs fixexperience, future fixers and other workshops
• Book on a training session with West Central London Fixers
• Look at the Repair Cafe Guides and more information about Repair Cafes
• Look at Restart party for great information and advice on repair and offering repair.

So get in touch if you are want to join the Ealing small electrical repair volunteers, by Contacting us. We would love to hear from you. Let’s get more repairing of small electrical items in Ealing. There might be limited funding for you and other volunteers to get paid for when you come as a repairer to an event. So please get in touch with ealingrepaircafe@gmail.com.

Repair our future

So why repair? Waste and especially electrical waste is a big problem and causes local and international problems around the world, as ActForEaling Cut the Crap exhibition illustrates.

Every time you spend money you’re casting a vote for the kind of world you want. To get things repaired is an easy solution to our mountains of waste. By volunteering you are helping people keep their small electrical items going for longer.

Did you know in the UK, we discard 155,000 tonnes of electricals every year?

Majority of these items could be reused or recycled. This e-waste poses a major threat to the environment, wildlife and to human health. The UK ranks second to Norway in the most e-waste produced a 2022 study has found.

Ealing Repair Café

We have been going since 2019. We started with the ambition to do all types of repairs and hoped other repairers would join us. Up to now they have been able to get volunteers interested in repairing clothing and textile items at our events. We are open to other repairers joining us and promoting their repair skills.

Our first get together was on 5 February 2019 at Northfields Community centre in the smallest room with about 4 people. After the pandemic we found new locations around Ealing and now we have multiple locations, see What’s on for our upcoming dates.

Ealing Repair Café runs friendly monthly gatherings around Ealing for clothes repair. It would be great if one a month could include electrical repair. So reach out to ealingrepaircafe@gmail.com if you are interested and want to find out more.

Ealing Repair have a following and have a popular Facebook page of over 1.1k followers and a mailing list of just under 350 subscribers, sign up here. So we have a great audience to promote electrical repair sessions to.

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