NS Repairs

Lunenburg County Repair Cafés - Fall 2026

Published on August 18th 2026

Over the past few months, various repair café organizers in Lunenburg County have been busy organizing three Repair Café events! They will be taking place over the next few months.

You will find below details regarding each event, including the repair stations that you may expect there. As the organizers of each events are still accepting more volunteers (please contact us if you'd like to participate in any event), the lists underneath are subject to change to include new repair tables.

Please make sure to come back to this page later for more up-to-date information.

Lunenburg Repair Café

🗓️ Saturday September 19th (1pm - 4pm) - 📍 Lunenburg library

🪡 Sewing: Textile hand-mender. Sewing repair specialists ready to help with repairs of clothing and household fabrics. Sewing machines on site for mending.
🔪 Knife and tool sharpening
♻️ Region 6 and the Municipality of Chester
🤝 "Ask a contractor": Get advice from an experienced builder about your current DIY project, get a second opinion, or discuss what's possible for your future home renos or building plans!
💬 "Empathetic Listener Station" a chance to connect with a compassionate listener in a quiet corner of the library
🛠️ Take-Apart Table: Kids of all ages will have a chance to use real tools to take apart a small common household appliance and see what they look like inside. Learn about the first stages of repair by taking something apart!
💻 Computer repair: get help with your laptop or operating system issues.

Broad Cove event

🗓️ Saturday October 17th (1pm - 4pm) - 📍 Broad Cove Community Hall

🔌 Small appliances
🏄 Surfboard repair
🪡 Textile mending
🔪 Knife and tool sharpening
💻 Laptop
🚲 Bike repair
💍 Jewellery
♻️ Region 6 Solid Waste management

👉 Check out this page for details about each station at this event.

Bridgewater event

🗓️ Saturday November 14th (1pm - 4pm) - 📍 Firehall

🪡 Sewing: darning, sewing machine adjustments. Sewing machines on site for mending.
🔌 Small appliances
💻 Laptop: see description in the Broad Cove event section above.
🔪 Knife and tool sharpening: see description in Lunenburg event section above.
💬 "Empathetic Listener Station" a chance to connect with a compassionate listener.
♻️ Region 6 with with South Shore Waste Solutions

See you soon! 🙂

Previous Activities and Events

Repair café event in Mahone Bay

Published on March 26th 2025

Details about our Repair Café event in Mahone Bay, taking place on May 2nd 2026.

Repair café event in Riverport

Published on January 12th 2025

Details about our Repair Café event in Riverport, taking place on March 7th 2026.

"Mending matters" at Broad Cove

The Broad Cove mending group met earlier this year for a few meetings.

How about starting your own repair café?

You've been to a repair café event, you've been inspired and would like to get one started in your own community!

But how to get stated? 🤔

We can help! Head over to the Resources page, you will find documents, templates and tips on what to do and when, written based on our experience organizing repair café events. Feel free to use whatever you find on that page! 🙂

What's a repair café?

A repair café is an event where people come to meet and have some of their belongings fixed.

Repair cafés are generally run by volunteers. Some of them are the fixers: they are the ones with a specific skill that they've developed over the years (through a hobby or through their professinal life). They are the ones helping guests to mend their items.

And yes, there's usually coffee (or tea) served at a repair café!