Bedford Repair Café 2022-2023
We are pleased to see our first project from this program moving on. It has been a wonderful partnership working and we are excited to see what they will do next!
‘With the expertise and contacts of QPCO, we were able to introduce our project to a wider community in Bedford. QPCO helped us with strategising for our future, as well as practical support at events, including stewards and a photographer. Thank you, QPCO!’ – from Bedford Repair Café
The project idea:
The Bedford Repair Café is a pop-up community repair café. The group is run by volunteers who want to teach others how to fix items and thereby reduce waste.
QPCO is taking the Repair Café across Bedford to reach a more diverse and broader audience.
Watch the video to learn more about it.
On 28 January 2023 we helped the group hold their first Repair Café in Queen’s Park. We worked closely with Queen’s Park Academy, which was delighted to host the group. To promote the event, we used our interpreting service—recording videos in five different languages (Bengali, Polish, Romanian, Urdu, Bulgarian). The school released the link to the event in advance to families with students at the school, and the information was shared by local places of worship enabling us to give priority to local residents.
Ninety-five percent of people said it was their first time attending such an event.
20 May 2023- Bedford Academy
We helped the Bedford Repair Café organise their next event in another area of Bedford. It was the first time Bedford Academy held an event of this type. Again, with our strategies, we aimed to target local people from the Kingsbrook and Caudwell areas to attend this amazing project.
