Aylesbury residents are invited to join the 'repair-cafe' revolution!

The initiative is completely free, and has been part of a project to help local residents reduce the huge amount of rubbish we produce.

Buckinghamshire is currently home to three Repair Cafes: Aston Clinton, Princes Risborough and Marlow.

Buckinghamshire County Council is hoping to grow and support this initiative, so if you know anybody who would like to start one up in your local area please visit

Bill Chapple OBE, Buckinghamshire County Council Cabinet Member for Planning & Environment, said: "It's been called the throwaway society – the tendency to simply replace an item with something new when the slightest fault or damage occurs.

"The old item just becomes waste, even though it could have easily been repaired with a little time and some basic know-how.

"That's where the Repair Café comes in. It's a place where people get together to share practical knowledge, and have fun mending and repairing their things to give them a new lease of life. Repairing has a double environmental benefit - not only does the old item not have to be disposed of as waste, but Earth's valuable resources don't have to be used in the manufacture of a replacement."

"So if you have a broken item, want to volunteer your skills or just want to find out what it's all about, why not pop along to the next Repair Café near you?"

The next Café sessions in Buckinghamshire are:

Marlow (1 February)

Aston Clinton (8 February)

Princes Risborough (13 February).