Please note: We are updating our website through December 2025 – January 2026 and hope to have a new look ready for February 2026. Thank you for your patience as this work is done by volunteers.
St Kilda Repair Cafe
Join us at the St Kilda Repair Cafe!
We are a volunteer based group of fixers and menders who meet once a month to hold this repair event for the community.
You can bring along your things that need fixing or mending for free and our volunteers will assess the items and try to help repair them.
We aim to keep more items out of landfill, help attendees learn how to repair, give the items a second life and live more sustainably!
We are located at
55A Blessington St, St Kilda, 3183,
VIC, Australia.
Port Phillip EcoCentre
2nd Sunday of each month (except January)
2-5pm
no new items started after 4:30pm
How do I know if it can be fixed?
You can email the repair cafe (stkilda.repaircafe@gmail.com) with an explanation of the fault including pictures where appropriate, and we’ll give you an idea of whether it’s worth bringing in the item to one of our repair cafe sessions.
Want to get involved?
If you’re interested in helping keep the St Kilda Repair Cafe up and running, we’re always happy to welcome new volunteers. There’s more information on our Get Involved page, or click below to sign up.
Please note: All our fixers are VOLUNTEERS, and there is no charge made for the fixes they do. However any cash donations people would like to make are welcomed to help us cover our costs (website, glues & other materials used from time to time.)
For any other questions about the St Kilda Repair Cafe, please contact John Hillel:
- Email: stkilda.repaircafe@gmail.com
Computers, Laptops and Phones Wanted
Bring your unwanted laptops and computers to the St. Kilda Repair Cafe and our IT experts will wipe all the data to ensure your personal information is safe. We will then donate them to the Brotherhood of St Laurence.
NOTE:
Please ensure it’s working – we don’t repair computers
For further details contact: stkilda.repaircafe@gmail.com
St Kilda Bike Kitchen
The volunteers of the St Kilda Bike Kitchen run an open workshop at the Repair Cafe (usually outside at the front of the EcoCentre).
The volunteers have the necessary skills and bicycle-specific tools to help you fix most of the problems you may be having with your bicycle.
The St Kilda Bike Kitchen is a non-profit, all-volunteer-run organization which teaches folks how to maintain and repair their own bicycles. Their mission is to grow and support a vibrant and welcoming community, where any person can learn to build, maintain and repair bicycles; and to nurture ecological sustainability and personal well-being by promoting the bicycle as a fun, safe and accessible form of transportation.
For more information about the SKBK or if you would like to join their project, please contact them at stkbikekitchen@gmail.com. You can also find them at www.facebook.com/stkbikekitchen
Progress to date – as at November 2025
Since November 2017:
- 1599 items fixed (56% of those brought in)
- 394 items "almost fixed" (eg need parts or advice given)
- 3590 kg estimated to have been saved from landfill (which doesn't tell the whole story as this includes a LOT of clothes and jewelry that don't actually weigh very much!)
On average, our fixers and menders have fixed or ‘almost fixed’ more than two out of every three items brought in and saved over 3 tonnes of items from landfill!
Watch for our Repair Cafe dates in 2025/26
Second Sunday of every month except January:
- Sunday 14 December 2025
- Sunday 14 February 2026
- Sunday 14 March
- Sunday 11 April
- Sunday 9 May
- Sunday 13 June
- Sunday 11 July
- Sunday 8 August
- Sunday 12 September
- Sunday 10 October
- Sunday 14 November
- Sunday 12 December
Follow this link for information about where you can take items for reuse/repurposing/recycling.