Repair Café had a great start in the new year! On Saturday January 19, we returned to Toronto Reference Library and offered our first full café in 2019. In spite of the cold and snowy weather, we had the highest turnout of volunteers and received the most broken household items […]

A New Record at Toronto Reference Library!


81 events across the city… Expanded initiatives such as children’s events, farmer’s markets, mini cafes, Sunday workshops… 100 + volunteers, with more young people joining as apprentice fixers… Record high numbers of collaborative ventures with partners from diverse institutions… 1,978 items fixed and diverted from landfill, bringing it to 6,050 […]

The World We Are Building


The Repair Café team visited the United Church on Roncesvalles for the first time on October 27. It was wonderful to meet the local community in this west end neighbourhood. Throughout the event, the visitors arrived steadily with all kinds of household items. And when they were leaving, many expressed they were satisfied and […]

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