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15.10.23 — 15:54 Are you handy with a socket set, know your way around a sewing machine, are good at organising or make a dam good chocolate cake? If so, have you thought about volunteering for Repair Café Bude? Since opening, this monthly event has repaired over 100 items, stopping them from going to landfill and giving them a new lease of life. Run by volunteers and supported by Neetside Community Centre, Repair Café Bude volunteers share their skills with those bringing items for repair helping them to learn simple home repairs for the future. Volunteering with us can include helping to meet and greet those bringing items in, making and serving cakes and refreshments, helping to navigate people to the repair stations or being an active repairer. Often repairs are shared, discussed and resolved by repairers working together and advising each other in a supportive environment and our volunteers find the social aspect of volunteering at Repair Café a big plus. If you’re interested in becoming a Repa...

Community Larder

18.5.23 — 12:29 It makes no sense to throw away perfectly good food when it can still be used to make delicious meals and snacks. To help reduce surplus food from local businesses going to waste, Transition Bude has recently started a Community Larder in Bude. We collect bread, pastries, fruit and vegetables, eggs, chilled food and snacks that are all perfectly good to eat, even if their Best Before date has expired. What is a Community Larder? Community larders are open to everyone and enable us to reduce food waste by taking surplus food collected from supermarkets and giving people a chance to use it. This helps to reduce our impact on the environment and helps save money – everyone’s a winner! When is the Community Larder open? At the moment we are open on Wednesday afternoons 2-3pm in Bude Library and the final Saturday of each month at 10.30am, at the Neetside Centre, timed to coincide with the Repair Café. We are hoping to open more frequently soon. Does it cost ...