Upper Hutt Repair Café House Rules
We ask all our visitors who bring items for repair to read and agree to the House Rules. These rules protect our volunteers and make it clear what we and our volunteers are responsible for. Here are the House Rules:
Before providing your items for repair, please take a moment to read and acknowledge the following:
- You are encouraged to repair your items with the support and guidance of our skilled volunteers.
- Volunteers are here to help but are not obligated to carry out repairs.
- Repairs are offered as-is, with no guarantee of success.
- Volunteers are not responsible for reassembling an item that cannot be repaired.
- You are required to remove from the Repair Cafe event any items you brought in, whether repaired or not.
- Any arrangements to complete a repair outside of the Repair Cafe event are subject to conditions agreed between you and the repairer, are completely separate from Upper Hutt Repair Cafe and may incur charges not imposed by Upper Hutt Repair Cafe.
- Volunteers are not liable for any injury, loss, or property damage related to the use of items brought for repair, whether on the day or at any later time.
- The Upper Hutt Repair Café Trust, its Board and every volunteer expressly accept no liability whatsoever, whether direct or consequential, in respect of any action to repair or not to repair any item.
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What is a Repair Cafe?
The Upper Hutt Repair Café is a volunteer group that organizes events where neighbours help neighbours learn how to repair. Our events are held at the Baptist Church on the corner of Fergusson Drive and Milton Street, Trentham, Upper Hutt
What do we repair?Anything that you can physically carry, such as electrical items, sewing machines, tables, chairs, bicycles for maintenance, mending and sewing, jewellery repairs and ceramics. Please check our Facebook page[link] for our next event. It will confirm the repair skills that we have available! If you think you have an unusual item, or just want to check if we can help, contact us by email ( |
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Wellington International Airport Annual Community Awards 2025
Upper Hutt Repair Cafe Trust was nominated in the Heritage & Environment Category.
Board Members accepted the award for Runner-Up in category
UHRCT was awarded Runner-Up in Category for our work supporting Repair, Re-use and Recycling in the Upper Hutt community through our Repair Cafe Events, run every two months and providing ways to learn about repair, become engaged and to have experts assist with repair of household items of almost every type.
Proud Recipients of the Award on behalf of all our volunteers
From left, Steve McDonald (founding member), Angela Macleod (Chair) and Graeme Sinclair (Treasurer) proudly displaying the award certificate on behalf of every one of the volunteers, supporters and clients that make it possible to run our Repair Cafe events.
Do you want to save stuff from being thrown away?
Are you keen to extend the useful life of things?
Are you interested in passing on your skills to others?
| We are looking for fixers and volunteers of all kinds! If you enjoy repairing things and helping others learn how, we invite you to join us as a volunteer fixer at the Repair Café. Your repair skills in fixing household items such as computers, electronics, small appliances, small furniture, clothes, jewellery, books, bikes and more, are all welcome. We are also looking for volunteers to provide general support at our events or behind the scenes. Tasks to help with include event set-up, refreshments, visitor registration and guides, graphic design, communication and marketing, photography/video, etc. We’d love you to join our volunteer community. Your skills and drive to make repairs and/or help others learn how to repair are invaluable assets. |
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Please use our Contact Form or email
Here's where our volunteers can login to the volunteer pages.
If you're having any issues logging in, or you need an account set up, email, text or call Technical Support for assistance:
Email
Things to check before contacting Tech Support:
- Are you entering the correct username? They are case-sensitive and must be entered exactly!
- Are you entering the most recent password exactly and correctly? Passwords must be entered correctly or stored in a secure password manager. Tech Support cannot see your password as it is not stored in the system, so if you need to, it will be reset and a new one issued. When you first login with a new password, you may be required to change it.
- Passwords must contain a minimum of 8 characters, 1 Upper Case and 1 Number.