
Welcome to the Tonbridge Repair Cafe website

Thank you to all our volunteers and everyone who has come to our Tonbridge Repair Cafe sessions.
It is possible to register yourself and your item in advance of the next repair cafe session.
See the ‘About’ page for details
The next Tonbridge Repair Cafe :
When : Saturday 14th of June 2025 10am – 12:30pm
Doors will open at 9:45.
* Last repairs accepted at 12:00 o’clock
Where : St Stephen’s Church in Tonbridge, Waterloo Road, TN9 2SW
* Entrance via the South Porch
You can also find more information on our social media pages.
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/TonbridgeRepairCafe
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/tonbridge.repaircafe/
Twitter – https://twitter.com/CafeTonbridge
To find out more about Repair Cafes in general, have a listen to this podcast on the BBC website

Future planned dates for the Repair Café are:
2025
Sat 12th July
No repair cafe in August
Sat 13 September
Sat 11 October
Sat 8 November
No repair cafe in December
From 10am to 12:30pm
Note: Last repair accepted at 12:00 or when capacity has been reached
We look forward to seeing you there!


Our Outreach Cafes
Did you know that we also run some outreach repair cafes at St Philips & The Methodist Church?
These are much smaller events where we offer knife sharpening and glueing, and sometimes also electrical and clock repairs.
Dates scheduled are as follows:
St Philips Church (Part of their Open House morning) 10-12
Salisbury Road, TN10 4P
Further dates to be confirmed
Methodist Church 10-12
Higham Lane, TN10 4JG
Wed 11 June 2025
Repair Tips
The web is full of guides for repairing all kinds of things. Repair platform iFixit – a Repair Cafe International partner – offers tens of thousands of free repair guides in words and pictures. You can use them to get started at home, but also to prepare for a repair in the Repair Café.
Check whether there is already a guide available for your repair: https://www.repaircafe.org/en/community/repair-guides/
They also list Repair tips and tricks https://www.repaircafe.org/en/community/tips-tricks/
Repair guides for every thing, written by everyone.
IFixit help thousands of people repair their things every day. Every time you fix something, you help the planet. To seach for repair manuals visit https://www.ifixit.com/
Product Manuals
Lots of product manuals available free online- https://manuall.co.uk/
Donate tools
Donate old tools at https://www.twam.uk/donatetools