Greener Kinross-shire We are a group of local volunteers who share a love for the beautiful Kinross-shire area and are committed to making it even better for people and nature. We are a community-led organisation promoting sustainability and helping Kinross-shire build resilience to climate change through meaningful local action. We lead and support a wide range of local sustainability and climate action projects, including:

Climate Café – What is a repair café?

It is a free community event, where people bring everyday items to get them repaired under supervision of expert repairers. The idea is that participants will learn repair skills by taking part in or watching a repair process. Also, the repairs that we will facilitate are not complex – the repair café will not take business away from local professional repairers. By facilitating repairs like sewing a button on or fixing a bike puncture we will help the professionals to concentrate on more complex repairs. What to expect on arrival? Each participant will register the item(s) to be repaired and sign a waiver form. The item will then get assessed by the repair volunteer whether it is repairable. Not every item can be repaired due to design restrictions or the complexity of some jobs. Although we will try our best it is important to be prepared that we might not be able to help. The services will be provided on a first come first served basis, so if it is busy you might need to wait. If you bring more than one item and we are busy, we will only service one item at a time. Hence you will need to wait for the repair of the second item. But to keep you entertained we will provide refreshments and a swap shop. If you would like to use the latter, please bring a good quality, clean item to exchange for something in the shop. If you don’t have anything to donate, you can still use a swap shop and leave a donation instead.

Repair Café – Bring broken items, learn how to fix them, and reduce waste.

Kinross-shire Repair Cafe Rules:

1. The repair work in the Repair Café is carried out free of charge on a voluntary basis by the repair experts at hand. The fact that the repairs are performed by unpaid volunteers reflects the allocation of risks and limitations of liability. Neither the organizers of the Repair Café nor the experts are liable for any loss that may result from advice or instructions concerning repairs, for the loss of items handed over for repair, for indirect or consequential loss of or any other kind of loss resulting from work performed in the Repair café.

2. Visitors offering broken items for repair do so at their own risk. The items brought to repair need to be in a clean state for the repair to take place. In case the item brought to the Repair Café is dirty or an unreasonable state, it may be rejected by the Repair Café Reception.

3. Repair experts are entitled to refuse to repair certain objects by providing the owner of the objects the reasons for their refusal.

4. Repair experts making the repairs offer no guarantee for the repairs carried out with their help and are not liable if objects that are repaired in the Repair Café turn out not to work properly at home.

5. Repair experts are not obliged to reassemble disassembled appliances that cannot be repaired.

6. Visitors to Repair Café are solely responsible for the tidy removal of broken objects that could not be repaired.

7. Visitors actively participate in the repair process by either watching the repair or actively assisting in the repair under specialist supervision.

8. All children attending the repair café need to be supervised by their parents/carers to ensure that they will not injure themselves and will not disrupt the repair process.

9. Visitors are asked not to touch the machinery and to follow the instructions of the repair experts at the repair station.

10. Any use of new materials or parts for the repair process needs to be paid for by the owner of the repaired item(s).

11. Donations for repairs to Kinross-shire Repair Café are greatly appreciated as they will support future Repair Café events.

12. To cut down on unnecessary waiting times during busy periods, a maximum of ONE broken item per person will be examined. The visitor will join the back of the queue if there is a second item for repair.

13. The personal data we collect are only used for the purposes of the repair café and will never be passed on to third parties.

14. Photos and videos may be taken for publicity purposes on the repair café website, the funders’ websites and in the press. Please let us know if you want to be excluded from images.

15. No dogs except assistance dogs are allowed on the premises, visitors are not allowed to smoke (Rules of the Hall)

You can find out more about the group and what they do by following this link: https://www.facebook.com/KLEO.ORG.UK