Spencers Wood Repair Café is offering free bird box making workshops for children in the borough.
To help our younger generation understand the importance of reducing waste, the repair café plans to work with local schools and youth groups to run the workshops for ages 11 to 13.
Participants will learn how to make a bird box using unwanted or off-cut wood that would otherwise be sent to landfill or burnt. After the workshop, they can take the bird box home or put it in a community area to monitor the birds’ activities.
Spencers Wood Repair Café has recently been awarded funding from the National Lottery Grant, so they are now able to run free workshops for the local community in addition to their repair services.
Schools and youth groups are encouraged to email Billie, the repair café organiser, if you are interested in having the bird box workshops for your pupils or members.
Next repair café session
The next Spencers Wood Repair Cafe will be held this Sunday 18th February, from 10am to 1pm, at Lambs Lane Primary School (RG7 1YG).
Their volunteers will help fix your broken or faulty household items for free, such as gardening tools, computers, clothes, toys and more.
If you have anything electrical to repair, they now have the equipment to check the safety of electrical appliances repaired by them (‘PAT test’) too.