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Sustainable Calne meet regularly, often with guest speakers or presentations.
- Repair Café – save the date!
Sustainable Calne will be running a repair café at Calne Town Hall on Saturday 10th May 2025 from 10:30am to 2:30pm
Let Sustainable Calne help you repair or reuse items, saving money and the planet!
- Help to repair simple bike problems like punctures
- Find out about donating or buying second-hand white goods
- Help to mend clothes
- Upcycle items with our free craft activities.
- Bring unused tools to donate for self-reliance
- Bring spare plants to swap
- Enjoy our café and enter our raffle
Our event is to help get items that need some repairs back into use. We know not everyone has the machinery, tools or knowledge to do their own repairs so we hope this will help!
Bike Repairs (especially children’s bikes)
Cost: Free, except for the cost of any new cables or if replacement inner tubes are needed
Punctures, gear adjustments and replacement brake or gear cables. Please make sure the bike is fairly clean so we don’t get mud all over the floor!
How to donate and buy second-hand white goods
Cost: Free (PAT testing)
KFR will be at the event and can advise on donating or buying second hand white goods and furniture. They will also be offering free Portable Appliance Tests (PAT) which community groups and others may find useful.
Hand and machine sewing repairs
Cost: Free
The hem on your favourite tee shirt has come undone?
Lost a button from a jacket?
Seam come unsewn or another simple repair needed? Bring them along.Decorate a plant stake
Cost: Free
Calne Men’s Shed have made wooden decorations which you can paint while you are at the event and use as plant sticks or to decorate your garden. These are made from scrap wood.
Tools for Africa
Do you have some unwanted tools (of all types but not gardening tools) that could be refurbished and sent to Africa? Please check what is needed by visiting the Tools for Self-Reliance website. We can only accept things that are listed.
Plant swap
Bring your spare seedlings.
If you don’t have your own, please take some for a donation. This will go to Oxfam as part of their plant swap fundraising.Café
Enjoy a cuppa and homemade cake while you’re there. Bring one of our flyers with your contact details on to enter our free raffle for a hamper of eco-goodies.
News
We keep in touch by sending regular newsletters with information about meetings, updates on our projects and links to related activities in the area.
- Waking Up to our Ecological SelvesBremzero will be running a weekend of workshops exploring our responses to the state of the world, and inspiring hope and action. When: June 6th to 8th 2025 Where: Bremhill Village Hall SN11 9LD (Friday at 19:30)Ratford Retreat Centre, Calne,… Read more: Waking Up to our Ecological Selves
- Meet Retro Duck!
On Saturday 11th May 2024, Sustainable Calne launched its new Retrofit project by launching Retro Duck at the annual Duck Race, organised by Calne Lions. We are very excited to have secured funding from the Centre for Sustainable Energy for… Read more: Meet Retro Duck!