Repair Cafés

Bring along your damaged or broken clothing, textile items, or electronics, and we’ll help you fix them.

Bring it, Fix it, Learn it – Every Friday!
Join us at our weekly Repair Cafés in Edinburgh Remakery’s Event Hub, running every Friday from 11am to 1pm. Bring your tech and textiles to be repaired – our expert Technicians and Sewing Tutors are on hand to guide you, share tips, and help breathe new life into your devices and clothes. Drop in anytime – no need to book! These sessions run on a Pay What You Can basis, making it easy for everyone to access practical repair skills and join our community of makers.

We keep these cafés running and welcoming everyone who wants to reduce waste, learn something new, and save money due to vital support from our supporters.

Our technicians can help diagnose and repair hardware issues with laptops, PCs, desktop computers, gaming consoles and other similar computer hardware.

Please note that we are unable to repair mobile phones or general household electrical items such as toasters, lamps, irons, hair straighteners and vacuum cleaners. We are also unable to provide support with software-related issues, including Windows installation, WordPress, Photoshop, Microsoft software setup or troubleshooting.

If you are looking for help with digital skills, software, data transfer or getting online, the City of Edinburgh Council has put together a useful guide to organisations that may be able to support you:

Support with digital skills, devices and data – The City of Edinburgh Council

We couldn’t run our Repair Cafés without sponsorship from people and companies who want to help us keep repair skills alive and waste our of landfill.

A big thank you goes to our current supporters:
– Red Rock Renewables

If you would like to make a donation in support of our repair cafés please email us at hello@edinburghremakery.org.uk , or if you are an individual, donate via the link below:

The Edinburgh Remakery Ltd – Donate Now

Every Friday | 11am-1pm

What can we help fix?

Sewing repairs:

Our experienced sewers can help with repairs and alterations to textiles and clothing items, such as replacing buttons and zips, sewing on a patch, mending a rip, taking up trousers or a dress, or fixing a hem.

Tech repairs:

Our hardware repair technicians and volunteers can help with hardware issues of broken tech, including laptops, desktops, monitors, Macs, and game consoles. Please note that we cannot help with mobile phones, general electrical goods such as toasters, lamps, irons, hair straighteners, hoovers, etc, and are not able to help with software issues such as WordPress, Windows Installation, Photoshop, etc.

These drop-in sessions are run on a first-come first serve basis so there’s no need to make an appointment. Whilst these sessions are free, if you can afford to do so you can help support this and our other community services with a small donation for each item fixed. This helps us to share more of these valuable skills and repair opportunities with members of the community who may not otherwise be able to afford them.