Thank you so much to @coombecastle International for picking us to be the recipient of support from their Eco-Warrior Group, and donating a new PAT tester to us!

Last month the team at Coombe Castle came to visit us in the shop, they`re a local business exporting dairy products from the UK and Ireland all over the world - their cheese ends up on plates in Singapore, Australia and the USA! Their Eco-Warrior Group kindly decided to buy us a new PAT tester and here you can see Darren, Chloe and Dee-Ann visiting the shop to donate it to us in person.

We are so grateful for their support as we use PAT testers for so many things that we do at Share and Repair. We PAT test anything electrical our repairers fix to ensure the repaired items people take home are safe, and regularly PAT test items in our Library of Things, items for HomeKIT and as part of our partnership with the Reuse Shop in Keynsham. So this really is an essential piece of kit that will get lots of use, and help us speed up the services we offer.

Thank you again to Coombe Castle for their generosity! Their support means so much and will have a big impact on our work.

At our last Repair Cafe in Larkhall, our Roving Reporter Milly was on hand keeping an eye on all of the repairs!

"Who would’ve thought this baby was 70 years old! He was brought in for rejuvenating, to be passed down to his proud owner’s grandchild. Georgie started life in Kenya and all these years later found his way to the café for Paul to work on his face and Jane to spruce up his dungarees.

Jane was also kept busy on her sewing machine with a backpack and a few coats, whilst it was all about tools for Fred who was hard at work sharpening secateurs and garden tools for the Alice Park Community Gardeners."

If you need to get something repaired, why not come to one of our Repair Cafes this weekend? We`ll be at:
✨ New Oriel Hall, Larkhall, BA1 6RA, from 10 - 1pm
✨ Wallington Hall, Bradford on Avon, from 10am - 12:30pm
✨ Bear Flat Community Hall, Bruton Avenue, BA2 4QJ, from 9.30 - 12.30pm

Please arrive as early as possible to ensure that there is time to work on your repair, we have limited capacity and our volunteers will do their best to help - sometimes we get really busy and we don`t want to have to turn you away!

#repaircafe @neworielhall @explore_bradfordonavon @climatefriendlyboa @bfa_insta @bearflat_community_market

Come to a Repair Cafe at the University of Bath this Wednesday!

Calling all @uniofbath students, we`ll be repairing items in the foyer of @thesubath Hub from 11-3pm this Wednesday the 12th of March. Come and get all of your broken items repaired by our brilliant volunteers!

At our last Repair Cafe at the University, we repaired over 40 items for students including a beloved mug, a coffee machine, coats, bags, many pairs of jeans, and our amazing student volunteer Lauren`s backpack!

It was Valentine’s Day and our repairer Graham joined in on the "Who Do You Love Today?" game, spreading kindness and enjoying some sweet treats!

If you have something that needs a repair, please make sure you turn up early to ensure we can see to you - we get very busy and don`t want to have to turn you away!

There is one week to go until the @bathhalf and our runners are getting ready for the big day!!

They’re trying hard to avoid coughs and colds and are each preparing in different ways, whether that is long runs, or shorter more frequent runs. We’re sure they will smash the half marathon - just running it is really impressive and we’re so proud of them! Read on for a clip of what each runner is up to, and see the full story on our website:

Chris has started doing longer runs and will be moving on to 15km runs soon! He said "I am in a constant state of worry that I will get an injury or worse, I will pick up a cold. I travel a lot for my work so am cooped up on planes and trains and am often surrounded by people coughing and sneezing! Fingers crossed I keep fit and well"

Joe has been doing 10k runs weekly, but is feeling the pressure to do more. "Overall I`m feeling excited and I`m looking forward to supporting a good cause and challenging myself. Now that it is getting closer I think I`ll be more motivated to run more often."

Jessie says the time is flying by, and has been increasing the distance of her runs, incorporating strength training to prevent pain in her knees. "as part of my last month of training I`ll be soaking up the sunshine in Egypt for a week...! Not good timing for race preparation, but good for almost everything else! Most importantly I`m concentrating on not worrying about the preparation or the race - at this point a good race is mostly down to mindset!"

Peter said he unfortunately hasn`t been able to do the long runs he wanted to over winter due to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, but "this week I’ve been enjoying the sunshine, so took the brave decision to get out on my bike for a 24 ride on the Somerset Levels. (Tea and brownies were not involved at all, honestly!) I planned to do a 10k the next day, but I’d used up a surprising amount of energy on the bike so had to give it a miss. I’m now tapering off and trying to ease off the pressure and enjoy the smaller efforts."

See you next Sunday and good luck to everyone who will be running! Will you be out there cheering the runners on, or are you running yourself?

#ShareRepairRunners #BathHalf

Happy International Women`s Day!

We’ve got a lot to thank women for at Share and Repair, as most of our staff is made up of women, we have so many brilliant women volunteering with us, and we were founded by a woman!

Thank you to all of the women who volunteer, work at or support Share and Repair in any way - we really wouldn’t be the same without you.

Here`s some photos of just a few of the women behind Share and Repair!