What’s a Repair Café? 

At the Repair Café, one of our handy volunteers will help you fix your broken item. The main goal of the Repair Café is to facilitate community collaboration and to kindle people’s enthusiasm for a sustainable society. Learn a new skill, save money, and help the environment. Don’t replace it, repair it!

Visit the official BPL RepairCafé.org webpage.

Registration: Opens Spring 2026

The Repair Café runs from 10am-1pm. Register for one of the two available registration windows: 10-11:30 or 11:30-1.

Click HERE Link to register coming spring 2026 to register for the first window, 10:00-11:30. 
If you prefer to register for the second window 11:30-1:00 Click HERE Link to register coming spring 2026

Good to know:

• A volunteer fixer will help you fix your item sometime during the registration window. While you wait, watch other repairs and learn something new, chat with community members who are interested in fixing and sustainability, watch a demo, or browse our book table and find your next read.
• Fixers are volunteers. Repairs are not guaranteed, but Fixers do their best. If you know your repair requires parts, please bring those parts. Fixers have all the basic tools.
• What can be fixed? This depends on the skill set of our volunteers. Our current volunteer Fixers are great with electrical (lamps, wiring, etc.) We do not fix electronics (cell phones, laptops, etc.). Tell us a bit about your item when you register, we will follow up with you if we need more information or to suggest any parts you might need to bring.
• This is a learning opportunity for all involved. This is not a drop-off event. We encourage visitors to sit with the Fixer, learn about what they’re doing, and lend a hand. It’s about figuring it out, together.

This program is offered in partnership with Living Green Barrie, Firebird Community Cycle and BRIX Makerspace.

ARE YOU HANDY?  WE NEED FIXERS!

Repair Cafés – Volunteer Fixers

We partner with the Barrie Public Library and other community organizations to host Repair Cafés and we’re always looking for volunteer fixers.

Fixers are people who enjoy troubleshooting and repairing household items, helping others learn basic repair and who want to reduce waste and promote reuse.

Items often include basic electrical (lamps, wiring, etc. small appliances (e.g. toasters), clothing, and bikes, general repairs.

The focus is on sharing skills and empowering visitors, not just fixing things for them.

We do not fix electronics (cell phones, laptops, etc.)