REPAIR CAFE & MADE LOCAL MARKET

Hawker Men’s Shed proudly hosts a quarterly Repair Café and Made Local Market on the 3rd Sunday of the 3rd month. Details of the upcoming events are below:

Sunday 16 March 2025
Repair Cafe & Made Local Market
10.00am – 1.00pmHawker International Softball Centre.
Sunday 15 June 2025
Repair Cafe & Made Local Market
10.00am – 1.00pmHawker International Softball Centre.
Sunday 21 September 2025
Repair Cafe & Made Local Market
10.00am – 1.00pmHawker International Softball Centre.
Sunday 21 December 2025
Repair Cafe & Made Local Market
10.00am – 1.00pmHawker International Softball Centre.

At each repair café, Hawker Men’s Shed will have stalls for secondhand tools and household goods as well as possum boxes and bird boxes. Orders can be taken for possum and bird boxes via email.

In addition, the Made Local Market with over 25 stalls will have eco-friendly handmade gifts, toys, jewellery, garden ornaments, home grown produce and more.

Our repair café, volunteer fixers will seek to repair or show you how to repair items in the following categories:

  • small electrical appliances
  • bicycles
  • jewellery
  • furniture items
  • small gadgets
  • toys and dolls
  • lawnmowers and gardening equipment
  • tool sharpening
  • sewing, fabrics and clothes
  • and more

Other services provided include the provision of quotes on jobs that are too big to complete during the repair café.

Coffee, tea, sausages and a selection of cakes will be available to raise money for Softball ACT and Hawker Men’s Shed.

Volunteers and helpers are always welcome and needed so if you are interested in getting involved, please get in contact via email today!

Some happy snaps from our March and June repair Cafés: