Share and Repair

Who we are

Share and Repair is a small, but fast-growing charity in Bath and North East Somerset. Our aim is to help local people and communities reduce carbon, waste and landfill to improve the environment we live in and save money. 

• 2017    First Repair Café opens in St Luke’s Church, Bear Flat
• 2018    Larkhall, Weston and Southdown cafes are in full swing
• 2019    Keynsham, Peasedown St John and High Littleton join the ever growing list of cafes with the first Library of Things opening at the Weston Hub
• 2020    We register as a charity and move our activity to a pop up shop on Broad Street just before COVID strikes!
• 2020    First HOW TO Workshops launched with HOW TO use hand and power tools quickly followed by Bike Maintenance, Use a Sewing Machine and more…
• 2021    We’re on the move again! This time to a bigger shop on George Street. The Library of Things grows to over 700 items!
• 2021    Launch of HomeKIT and school’s project HOW TO Reduce your carbon footprint
• 2022    We get sponsorship for the Flying Satsuma, our electric cargo bike and we start to offer a Library of Things delivery service! 
• 2022    We grow to over 2000 Library of Things members and open Repair Cafes in Saltford, Corsham and Bradford on Avon
• 2023    We grow the schools project and reach over 300 11 year olds
• 2023    We extend our shop opening hours and open on Tuesday morning and our amazing Volunteers are awarded the Kings Award for Voluntary Service
• 2024    We were awarded funding by the National Lottery Community Fund!