Repair Café Tamborine Mountain is a neighbourhood initiative that promotes repair as an alternative to tossing things out and adding to landfill.

Tamborine Mountain Community Care, located at 42 Southport Avenue, launched its Repair Café in October 2021. It has proven to be a great success, with just under 150 repairs being carried out to date and therefore successfully extending the life of the objects presented for repair. 

Repairs have been carried out to a varied array of objects, including garden tools and furniture, ceramics, jewellery, timber furniture, possum box, clothing, bicycles, footwear, knife and scissor sharpening, amongst others.

The Repair Café is available to the community twice weekly on Wednesday and Friday mornings in the shed at the bottom of the Tamborine Mountain Community Care driveway. Residents of the Tamborine Mountain community can bring their broken items to fix them with the help of voluntary repairers. 

We have a team of eager and skilled volunteers ready to assist with repairs. 

 If a repair can be completed in a short timeframe, you can grab a coffee or cup of tea while you wait or assist with the repair. We are keen to teach you new skills too, so that in the future you may be able to undertake a similar repair yourself.

The Repair Café Foundation has the following goals:
a) to bring back repairing into local society in a modern way.
b) to maintain repair expertise and to spread this knowledge.
c) to promote social cohesion in the local community by connecting neighbours from very different backgrounds and with different motives with each other through an inspiring and low-key event.

There is nil cost for any repairs, although donations will, of course, be greatly appreciated and put back into the running of the program. If spare parts or materials are required to complete a repair, you will be advised and will need to purchase these before the repair can be undertaken.

We are still in need of hand tools to enable volunteers to carry out repairs, 
 and would be pleased to accept donations of any surplus or unused tools 
 you may have.

See you soon at the Repair Café!

Geoff Marshall
 TMCCA