Media - Research - Case Studies
Articles in the Media
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Accolade is royally desrved as Farnham Repair Cafe gets King's Award
Farnham Repair Café has received the King’s Award for Voluntary Service.
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Farnham Repair Cafe nominated for King's Award for Voluntary Service
Farnham Repair Cafe has been nominated for a King’s Award for Voluntary Service, the MBE equivalent for voluntary groups.
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Farnham Repair Café to host webinar for prospective repairers (Farnham Herald)
Details about webinar that took place for prospective volunteer repairers in April 2021
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FRC supports the launch of Southern Taiwan Repair Cafe Alliance
Link to details about international launch of new Repair Cafe alliance in 2021
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Farnham Repair Café supports repair activities and knowledge in Taiwan
Link to Taiwan Southern Repair Union and latest repair activities 2020 (Google Translate page to English if needed!)
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Farnham Repair Café partners in UK's 1st Repair Cafés Conference
Link to details about the event held at UCA Farnham in 2020
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Farnham Repair Café on BBC TV South
A good overview of FRC activities and interesting repair story on the news in 2018
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Farnham Repair Café on Brazilian TV
A few seconds of FRC activities on NOTICIA Europa in 2015
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Farnham Repair Café features on BBC Radio 4 'Saturday 'Live'
Visitors and volunteers at the Repair Café share their thoughts about repair
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Farnham Repair Café aired on BBC Surrey local radio
Interview with Martin Charter about the Repair Café
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Farnham Repair Cafe has celebrated its 1,000th repair since launching in 2015
Feature in Farnham Herald - Community News August 2019
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Redefining Value - The Manufacturing Revolution
Farnham Repair Café mentioned in UN report - see pages 56 & 58.
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The NEW DIY: Repair Cafés
Feature in Sublime - The First International Sustainable Lifestyle Magazine
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How Farnham UK's Repair Café Takes a Bite Out of Waste
Article by Martin Charter on wehatetowaste.com
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A Repair Café Comes to Farnham, Surrey, UK
Article by Martin Charter published in 2016 on Linked in.
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Nature online features Farnham Repair Café
Article blog posted on behalf of Martin Charter.
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Sounds of a Repair Café poem performed at Space Gather Make at Tate Modern (2017)
You Tube video with words spoken by Martin Charter - video produced by Steve Privett
Research Papers
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Farnham Repair Café: Survey of Customers: Motivations, Experiences & Behaviour
Survey undertaken in July 2019 by The Centre for Sustainable Design® (CfSD) at the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) in Farnham (UK)
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Farnham Repair Café Survey of Visitors & Volunteers (2016)
Survey undertaken in February 2016 by The Centre for Sustainable Design® (CfSD) at the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) in Farnham (UK)
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Loading Legacy Repair Data into RepairMonitor©
The report highlights issues related to uploading legacy repair data from repair cafes to RCIFs RepairMonitor (c) incorporating experience from Farnham Repair Cafe. The research was undertaken as part of project funded by UKRI via an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) grant awarded to UCA.
Farnham Repair Café: Case Studies
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Repair of Japanese Doll
Undertaken by Ed Ram and Steve Privett
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Vaccum Cleaner Cable Reel Repair
Undertaken by Peter Dobson and Ali Buchanan
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Kodak Carousel Projector Repair
Undertaken by Peter Dobson
Partner Videos
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Repair Movement in Southern Taiwan
Southern Taiwan Repair Café Alliance