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Hawker Community Repair Cafe

Locality: Hawker

Address: 45 Walhallow Street 2614 Hawker, ACT, Australia

Website: mensshed.org/profile/AMSA101430

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24.01.2022 Do you have a necklace that needs re-threading? A broken link in your favourite bracelet? A dodgy clasp? We will have Jess from JAC Studios on hand to help you with basic jewellery repairs like replacing broken clasps and re-threading strings of beads. Some repairs are best left to paid professionals with specialist equipment. We won't be able to help with precious metals, stones and fine jewellery.

24.01.2022 The Hawker Community Repair Cafe is brought to you by the Hawker Men's Shed. The Hawker Men's Shed started operations in October 2019 under the auspices of Softball ACT, but membership is open to the broader community. The shed meets on Friday mornings from 9:30am. Men’s Sheds are community-based, non-profit, non-commercial organisations that are accessible to all men and whose primary activity is the provision of a safe and friendly environment where men are able to work o...n meaningful projects and social activities at their own pace, in their own time and in the company of other men. The Hawker shed also welcomes women as members. For more information about the Hawker Shed visit there website or Facebook page https://mensshed.org/profile/AMSA101430/ https://www.facebook.com/hawker.mensshed

24.01.2022 It's been lovely cycling weather this weekend! Do you have a bike that needs a bit of TLC but you don't know where to start?? At next Sunday's Hawker Community Repair Cafe, we will have volunteers able to help show how to do basic bike maintenance and repairs like gear adjustment, cable lubrication, brake adjustment, wheel truing and bearing replacement. They can help teach you how to keep a bike in order. ... We won't be able to help with more time-consuming tasks like wheel rebuilds or major overhauls. (Image by Ruslan Bardash on unsplash)

21.01.2022 The Hawker Community Repair Cafe is on today from 10am to 1pm at the Hawker International Softball Centre. Save your loved but worse for wear items from landfill, learn some new skills and grab a snack to raise money for Softball ACT and the Hawker Men's Shed! See you soon!

21.01.2022 Have your jumpers been attacked by moths? Do your favourite jeans need some mending? Need a hand to learn how to sew on a button? ... Then come along to the Hawker Community Repair Cafe on this Sunday at the Hawker International Softball Centre! Bring your clothes and our expert volunteers will help you give them some TLC!

21.01.2022 Did you miss our repair cafe last Sunday? Have things that need repairs? Can't wait until June 20 for our next event?... Then you are in luck! Our Southside friends have a repair cafe THIS SUNDAY at the Tuggeranong Community Centre. Check them out for more info. https://www.facebook.com/110871964150137/posts/209620357608630/

20.01.2022 Do you have an appliance that's lost its mojo? Beaters not beating? Coffee machine with a bit of a gurgle? ... Damaged plug need to be replaced? We will have John on hand tomorrow at the Hawker Community Repair Cafe to help with your electrical appliance repair needs*. * We are not able to attempt repairs on microwave ovens, old style CRT televisions and some old appliances that don't meet current safety standards. You may need to buy parts elsewhere to complete a repair, but it's probably as easy as a quick trip to Bunnings once you've chatted to the experts to find out what you need.

20.01.2022 Our sign is finally finished! It's finished in time for the Hawker Community Repair Cafe 11-2 next Sunday (18 October) at the Hawker International Softball Centre. We have volunteers lined up to help you repair broken household items, clothes, bikes, toys, garden tools and more.... Coffee and cakes and a sausage sizzle too. All money raised goes towards the Hawker Men's Shed and Softball ACT.

19.01.2022 Preparations are well underway for the Hawker Community Repair Cafe at the Hawker International Softball Centre on Sunday October 18! Do you have something to bring along?

15.01.2022 The rain has not dampened the enthusiasm of our volunteers! Toasters, mulchers, animatronic witches, lamps, lawnmowers, blowers, finger puppet theatres, blunt garden equipment, chairs, clothes, curtains and more have already been looked at today. There's an hour left, what will you bring along?

12.01.2022 What is a repair cafe? Is there coffee?? Repair cafes are events where neighbours can get together to share knowledge on how to repair household items. Members of the Belconnen community have volunteered to come along and share their skills in repairing things. We will have coffee, cakes and a sausage sizzle available to purchase (funds raised will go to Softball ACT and Hawker Men's Shed, both not for profit community organisations and our venue hosts :) )... Photo by Julie Molliver on unsplash

11.01.2022 Thank you to everyone who volunteered their time and expertise and all the attendees who brought their broken things to today's repair cafe! What a great community event!

09.01.2022 Wow! Liz Stephens, one of the organisers of the Tuggeranong Repair Cafe, and friend to us here at Hawker, has been announced as the ACT's Senior Woman of the Year. Congratulations Liz! https://www.facebook.com/110871964150137/posts/208296327741033/

09.01.2022 Let us know if you are coming along and what you'll be bringing! I'll be there with my broken beaters!

07.01.2022 The Hawker Community Repair Café will be a covid-safe event. That means we will have venue capacity restrictions, will require visitors and volunteers to maintain 1.5m social distance, names and contact numbers will be recorded and everyone will need to practice good hand hygiene. Help us protect our visitors and volunteers. Please don’t come if you have even mild cold symptoms, have been to a covid hotspot in the previous two weeks or have been in contact with a known cas...e of covid. Photo by visuals on Unsplash

05.01.2022 Do you have a Ted who needs some care? Do you want your children to know how to fix things but aren't sure yourself? Yes? Then a repair cafe sounds perfect for you (and Ted)! ... We will have volunteers on hand who are deft with a needle and thread and who can show you how to replace Ted's eye or fix its ear! (Photo by Marina Shatskih on Unsplash)

03.01.2022 Save the date! Sunday 18 October at the Hawker International Softball Centre, Walhallow Street, Hawker - the Hawker Community Repair Cafe! (Photo by Dana Vollenweider on Unsplash)

02.01.2022 Hawker Men's Shed (repair cafe host) is pleased to advise that from Wednesday 30 September 2020, the Hawker Men's Shed will be expanding its meeting times to Wednesday's from 9.30am to 12.00pm. Wednesday's will be an additional meeting time and will be for men only. Hawker Men's Shed will still continue with its Friday meetings from 9.30am to 12.00pm. Meetings on Friday will be open to both men and women.... Those attending Wednesday are also welcome to attend on Friday.

01.01.2022 Is your grass out of control 'coz your mower is on the blink? Hedges out of control coz your pruning shears need some TLC? Bring them along to the Hawker International Softball Centre on Walhallow Street from 11 until 2 today and our volunteers can have a look and see if they can help you get your tools in order to get your garden under control. Photo by Danielle Eagle on unsplash

01.01.2022 And that's it for today! A huge thank you to the Hawker Men's Shed, Softball ACT and all our amazing repairers. We'll be on again, same place, same time, Sunday 20th of June for more repairing!