Repair Café

A few days ago we received this note from our friend Kathy Doust, from Nottingham, England. Kathy is the sister of Fr. John Medcalf, founder of the Rural Library Network, and since our beginnings in 1971 she has been supporting our activities.

Repair Cafés are meeting places where we can contribute to sustainability. In recent years, they have sprung up all over the UK. They fix appliances, lawnmowers, clothes, bicycles, anything, even jewellery. I often sharpen my gardening tools there. They also do electrical testing of any appliance, all for a small donation. It depends on the expertise of the volunteers. It's to keep people from throwing away appliances when they can be repaired. I remember the time two students brought their vacuum cleaner to be repaired, but it turned out that they only needed to empty the contents of the bag.

Here in Nottingham, the Repair Café is held every two or three months. We also offer coffee, cakes and information about a project that benefits from the proceeds. Today's charitable contribution was for Rural Libraries. Soon we will share with you the funds raised.

Many greetings, much love

Kathy.

Thank you so much, dear Kathy. We could not go on without people like you, like you. Your support and solidarity touches us deeply. Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts.