Helen Grant MP for Maidstone and Malling visits The Malling Repair Café in the village hall East Malling – part of the local community
At the Malling and District Repair Café today 18 Jan 2025 there was an amazingly close community feel about the place. This is not just somewhere to bring your broken radio, malfunctioning Christmas lights or blunt scissors, it is also a place to come together for a hot cup of tea and a homemade cake, a good chat and a bit of warm fellowship.
Running now for over two years, this branch of the Repair Café phenomenon is clearly successful amongst local people. Today there were 68 requests for repairs covering a huge range of stuff, with volunteer technicians on site ready to tackle the toughest of challenges. Not everything gets fixed, but most things do in return for a small donation to help run the scheme.
If you have something that needs fixing do go along next time, and if you fancy putting yourself forward as a volunteer please contact the organisers. All the details are here: https://mallingrepaircafe.co.uk/dates-times-and-locations/
My thanks to Kris, Shirley and Royston (pictured above) for such a warm welcome and for showing me around the various workstations.