If you haven’t signed up and are already part of the teams at one of the local repair cafes, and would like to help, then please fill out the volunteer form.
RC @ FoT Organising Committee
Middlesbrough Repair Cafe: Emily Treadgold
Northallerton Repair Cafe: Rachel Zealey
Saltburn Repair Cafe: Kerry Reay
Stokesley Repair Cafe: Kate Gibbon
RC@FoT Co-ordinator: Simon Gibbon
What are We Going to Do?
Message the importance of reuse, repair, refurbish, repurpose …..
Show repair in action
Encourage people to use their local repair cafes
Hope to inspire others to set up repair cafes
Repair things
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Where are we going to be?
In the Bothy Gallery within the Kirkleatham Walled Garden.
The Allotment Patch will be the area to follow signs to during the Festival of Thrift.
Access to this site is via Kirkleatham Walled Garden, Plantation Rd, Kirkleatham, Redcar TS10 4AS. What Three Words – ///dogs.pink.shorts
Timings
Set-up Friday 3rd 10am – 3pm / Saturday 4th 8am – 11am (vehicle access upto 10am)
Festival of Thrift Opening Times – 4th – 5th July 11am – 5pm
Repair Cafe Book Repairs – 11am – 4pm
Take down Sunday 5th 5.30pm – 7pm
Vehicle Access to Repair Cafe Location – need car pass – contact Simon
Unload before at Walled Garden Car Park – Friday 10am -3pm / Sat & Sun 8am – 10am
Load at Walled Garden – Sunday 5.30pm – 7pm / Monday 10am – 3pm
Parking only in Show Ground unless blue badge
Triage Process
Festival no blades
Quick Win:
- We choose what can / can’t be repaired
- Repair quick things
- Refer other items to local repair cafe
No Drop-offs: Owners stay with their items, 40,000 people at the festival so no chance of finding people if item left.
Health Safety and Insurance
At the festival we are all volunteering for Stokesley and Villages Repair Cafe
- Thank you for agreeing to the policies
- Please remind yourself before the festival – Risk assessment – pdf
- PAT Testing of all items to be repaired before / after repair
- Need our own items to be PAT tested with label – either do before hand with label from our repair cafe or on arrival
Donations
All efforts to repair items, show people how to repair and even how to run their own repair cafe are free, with donations being accepted to:
- Cover any costs of running the repair cafe
- Reimburse repairers consumable costs
- Any remainder will be split across all the represented repair cafes roughly proportionally to repairers involved. Repair cafes use their funds:
- run their repair cafes
- support repair and other environmental activities
Social Media
Please use social media to let your network and the world know about both the Repair Cafe @ FoT and the Festival of Thrift itself.
The Festival of Thrift has sent through the tag @festivalofthrift and graphics optimised for social media:
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Further Information Relevant for Repair Cafe Team
Artisit’s Briefing Pack – pdf
Questions and answers – latest
Volunteer Rota – Opens in Another Tab
Risk Assessments – pdf