Interview - Chris Speight - Share & Repair

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Welcome to Forrest.Chat,
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where we talk about individual endeavor in Western Australia, what it takes, what it means, and how you do it.
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I'm your host, Paul van der Mey.
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And in today's episode, we're talking with Chris Speight about the Shared Repair Network.
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Chris has been involved in the Share Repair Network for quite some time, and he's been on an interesting, very interesting project, uh, since about 2019 that, uh, he's put a lot of, time and effort into.
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Welcome to Forrest.Chat,
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Chris.
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Thank you.
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Chris, the Share Repair Network, what are we talking about? What is that? Well, in essence, Paul, it, it, it's around, making a library of things that primarily i- is about a library that is free for all the community to enjoy and share in, where they don't have to go out and buy those things.
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They can just, from the library.
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A- and there's five l- library of things, in various names.
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I think there's five, possibly by now five, within, Western Australia, ma- mainly in the Perth suburbs, in the southern suburbs.
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And the one that I'm involved with will be hopefully, if we get a home, in the northern hopefully around s- the Stirling area.
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Yeah, yeah.
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So yeah, that's the primary focus, each community and every community member Either free or very low budget subscriptions to, um, to, to borrow whatever they need in, for their which can be an absolute array of things.
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Yeah.
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I was gonna say, what sort of things might, might there be in a library of things? Well, it, it, it, it, learning thing for the library itself, dependent on the community.
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But we, we see in libraries, uh, that are already existing and working, mainly around tools.
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This is where it started, so it was o- originally called a tool library.
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Uh, and it started off in, uh, in the UK, and is very, in, in Scotland, where there's a, a, a lot of activities around this particular project, uh, which is now a global project.
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And so we are kind of following their lead and where the tool libraries, in, here in Western Australia, tools, but they're now branching out, camping equipment, example in the UK is a, they call it, it's a kind of an, a heat detector that detects heat in, in, in buildings.
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So a lot of people struggle, of course, with the cold in Scotland, so they all share this, this wonderful piece of equipment that, that monitors where heat's being lost in the home.
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You can just point it at, at a window or a door and see where heat's em- emanating, and it, it's a very valuable tool that m- most households can't afford.
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So this is just a prime example of that sharing, which obviously the item is free, just borrowed and then returned to the library.
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you can then patch up your house accordingly.
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Yeah, yeah.
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So the concept is like a library of books, where they've got all sorts of different books in the library, and the residents of the area have access, free access to it.
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but this is actually hard things that people can do things with.
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So the, the, the basis being that everything is online and, and people can, Western Australia, the, uh, the existing libraries have a very resourceful, team th- uh, that, have produced these wonderful online, that allow all the communities to subscribe to join.
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So any community member can join and then avail themselves of, lot of items like for parties, uh, So there's all the party gear for, for children's parties.
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That's a great example that they can book them online, reserve them for the weekend they want it- And then just go along, pick it up on the day, it'll be ready for them, and then they bring it back when they're finished with it.
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And of course, it's shared with e- everybody.
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And, and of course, the, the primary, this is the, the, the library people who Make sure that the, the items are maintained and serviceable a- and, of course, cataloged in such a way that they can be delivered to the customer with great ease.
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A- and there's some fabulous, things out there that are doing exactly that right now, and we'd like to be one of them.
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there's a couple of elements there.
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The people who are working in those libraries, they're volunteers? Correct.
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And how are they set up? Are they, are they other organizations that are set up in a similar way that people can use as an example? M- most seem to be operating out of l- like, so they might have shared space.
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One of the big problems, of course, with this kind of a library is we ca- talking about space needed to house and secure those items in a way that, that they're easily accessible, so they've gotta be in a central point to the community.
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typically will be a, a, a disused shed or something that's already being used by another organization, so that it'll be co-shared, the case with, with a lot of these.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Um, I can mention the ones that, existing.
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Is that okay? Yeah.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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So the ones that I, I'm-- we're aware of, um, our group, the Transition Town Stirling, which is the, the driver of this particular project, we're aware that there's one in Bassendean, which I've been to, which is a fabulous, They operate out of a shared space within the town, so it's very convenient for, for, uh, the, the, uh, community to access.
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in Vic Park, there's one in the collective.
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I'm, told, told there's one I think is in Maylands, and I'm, I'm lost for where the other one is.
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I think it's in, uh, North Perth But, but the...
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back to the, the one in Bassendean, um, I've spent some time there, and it's very well, and very well organized, a- and runs on very similar lines to the, the ones I've described in Scotland, where there's a lot of evidence now that savings for the community, in the thousands of dollars per year.
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So they've done a study in Scotland of all those, and maybe getting off track here a bit, but just to give you an example of what the community have reported to, to save is I think it's about 10,000 pounds per year.
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So the average household- That's like per family that's getting involved? Correct.
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So in other words, a subscriber who subscribes for either nothing or a few dollars a year- can get the benefit of, of up to £10,000 worth.
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I think I've got that right.
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Yeah, it is about te- And that, that equates of course here to $20,000 worth.
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So the potential community members and families in particularly can benefit from this, um, wonderful advantage of just not having to buy stuff, which of course a major thing that Transition Town is all about is avoiding landfill, and that's of course the big one for us, where there's just that saving as well for the planet.
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That's very interesting that, uh, when you talk about dollar values at that sort of level for a family, you're talking about things that the family is actually able to do that it probably would not otherwise be able to do.
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if they had to buy it, they wouldn't have spent the money, but because they can borrow it, they can go and do what they're looking to do because it's accessible.
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A- and this is no more evident than when, when they wanna do do-it-yourself projects for the home.
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So particularly around tools that are, expensive.
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And, and it's been proven, study that a, a, a power drill, for example, in the, the average household over its lifetime will be used for seven minutes.
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Wow.
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So that gives you some idea of the silliness that we're trying to tap into eliminating, you as a householder, you don't have to have that drill.
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You can just get on your computer, organize it for when you need it, and pick it up with all the accessories and ancillaries that you need, and then take it back there when you're finished with it.
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So that's just one example of, yeah, yeah, what is so beneficial.
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A- and it, then it leads the, the, the community into being able to save a lot more money a- as a spinoff on, on particularly do-it-yourself projects.
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And, and one of the things that Transition Towns is passionate about is educating people on, through workshops that we run, which will dovetail well into this once we get the tool library, where we can actually run workshops on the items that probably need a bit, bit of a e- education to, get the, you know, for the community to benefit to the, the optimal level.
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So that's where we're trying to head with...
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it's just a very elegant way of bringing these things together for the community.
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And that training aspect is a great opportunity for people in the organization to share their knowledge, to share their experience, and for other people to benefit from other people's knowledge and experience, and be able to do something themselves that builds some resilience and that sort of thing in their life.
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And well, it, that resilience is reflected then in the community because, yeah, the, that network, that, that shared network that we talked about, that share and repair network, which is at the background of this, is, all in essence about that, that element of, resilience for the community.
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Which again, is the Transition Towns kind of objective, but more, universally around, around each community, each suburban street.
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Uh, you kn- you know, we're talking about neighborhoods that, that then start to benefit from the whole aspect of, um, of that sharing.
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Not only the sharing of the, the item, but of course sharing of the knowledge that goes with using that item.
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And, and like you say, in those instances, it's allows a community to grow because that communication aspect, which is what I'm all where people then start to communicate better, that, that there's a collaboration been witnessed in, in Scotland.
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A- and there's a report come out of the survey that is just a wonderful read for people like myself who's interested in this kind of thing.
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Can definitely see that, that people get value from teaching other people, and they build connections and, you know, who knows? They might even go around and help out if it's a project that they're really interested in or, or something like that, so Yeah.
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That's, uh, that's very, uh, very good.
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So we talk about the Share Repair Network.
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Who else is in that space? Okay.
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Well, w- we as a Transition Town, we, through, collaboration between, uh, involvement in Men's Sheds, which is at the, at the core of my interest and my, I suppose, awareness of where, i- really, um, can be turned into value.
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and yeah, we, we've seen that with Men's Sheds throughout Australia and now globally, where we've there's something like, I about 3,700 Men's Sheds around the world.
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I'm, I'm not that good on facts, but I think I'm about right there, which gives you some idea th- that aspect of Men's Sheds, of course, their model, their, their, business model really is focusing on, on using discarded wood, for example, and using the machinery that they're able to accumulate and, and, and get, get into a, a position of learning to use.
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They then produce things for the community for, and themselves to sell, and we get this bus- business model that, that rolls out.
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And similarly, repair cafes have been born out of a similar kind of way of, of, of, of waste, where a lot of people, interested in repairing stuff that would otherwise go into landfill.
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So again, for communities, cafes a- are born from that need for, to throw items that maybe just need a, something quite literally missing, screw missing out of a, an item.
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So repair cafes were born out of that, that, that desperation to stop waste g- getting into landfill.
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So that, that network then started to build, particularly around the world, and now repair a phenomenal success over w- my later lifetime, but I would say over the last 20 years.
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There's now 4,000, cafes around, the whole world, and I think that's a fabulous indictment of, of what th- this is about.
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So yeah, that, that shared aspect that we talk about, the Share Repair Network, is all around that, that, um, that focus.
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So they're very well known, I think, amongst, interviewed somebody about the Men's Shed, and I believe the Men's Shed started in Australia.
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Correct.
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Yeah, that was in, in the eastern state, not quite...
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I, I, I should know.
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I've been involved long enough to know that I should know exactly where it started from.
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But yeah, the, the grassroots aspect of Men's Sheds, of course, is, is now renowned throughout the world.
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But really that, that element of the waste, being of value, what is, in essence, at their core, to me, this is my personal view, is that the core of what makes them work so well.
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And, and similarly, when we look at, what we do, the Transition Town Stirling, the Repair Cafe, which is just gathering together people, like-minded people, have some skills maybe, try and repair things that otherwise would go into landfill, of course.
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we get together once a month for a two-hour period, in a location that we've now pr- promoted, and people come along, and within two hours, it, it's not unusual to fix 40 items.
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Wow.
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That's impressive.
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I- i- it is.
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A- a- and there's a...
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Back to that, that share, there's another aspect, there's another word here.
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There's a share and care aspect to what I find in, in, in Repair Cafes in that, in that regard.
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So because the people bring...
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So you as a customer come along to the, Cafe with your item, and we involve you in the process.
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So it's lovely to be able to get that, that caring aspect, to hear the story about the item that's broken, and it might be of, of particular value, not, not for its, i- its monetary value, but of course for i- its cherished value through it might have been a, an item passed down.
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And I've repaired some such items that I...
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It's just a delight to hear the story around the item that you're repairing.
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And to be able to do it and fix it and them take it away is just a, a...
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Yeah, it's beyond the value of what they're saving, of course.
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It's more the, the, the intrinsic value of th- their cherished item.
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Yeah.
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And it's usually a- associated with some kind of story and a person, of course, that is, is a memorial to.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Both the Men's Shed and the Repair Cafe are both really good community oriented organizations Yeah.
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Well, the, the a- aspect of the two coming together, which is what I, I feel happened when the Repair Cafe started, it was kind of born the, the involvement of people like l- love fixing things and, a- and do it yourself.
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And, the of that, has grown because we started in 2018.
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Our Repair Cafe started in 2018.
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I think there was six to start with, and now we have 40.
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we've our eighth, anniversary in September.
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so 40 volunteers, not all necessarily turn up o- once a month, but we have a good number of volunteers now.
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So we have the capacity to fix electrical items, p- pottery items, you name it, people bring along.
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And of course, clothing.
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a lot of repairs of clothing, which is a great in that circular economy that we uh, yeah, benefit the community by providing, and that's worked out extremely well.
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But yeah, it was born out of, I came from, various aspects.
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But as I saw it as a- an extension to the which of course is now what I now believe is happening with this next project, which is the Share Library.
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It, it, it is almost an elegant extension to, those two, a kind of a fostering of those to, uh, to take this to the, what I would say is the next level For the community, which is gonna give them that huge return that we talked about earlier.
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That, that's gonna- Yeah benefit all of us.
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explain the, the journey that you've been on to, to get this, uh, library library of things started? Yeah.
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Well, I've, I, I guess personal aspect, I've always, I suppose, I, I've got a love for people.
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A- and yeah, during my lifetime, I've, I've tried to volunteer on various projects.
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It starting w- in my much younger uh, I the, the Boy Scouts and, and got approached to form a, a, a cub group in my late teens.
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uh, I just kind of took to that kind of aspect of uh, yeah, loved that, that time, by the way.
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That was back in the UK.
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And coming to Australia, I was lucky enough to be involved a that, was, um, based around trying to people from d- disadvantaged backgrounds help them, get some life skills to help them with employment a- and navigating life.
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And, and I basically got involved with that in my 30s and I ended up doing some, tutoring, by the end of which I found very, very rewarding.
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All these things have their...
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It, there's a selfishness to it, I feel.
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The, the type of...
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There's so much enjoyment derived for me, and I know for many who do the same thing.
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Uh, and so yeah, I've, I got a great buzz out of d- doing all I've gotta say, it, it wasn't always I think persevering when you're, it, it's, it's different, of course, in a, in a commercial sense when you, when you've gotta decide is it worth carrying on with this because it's costing me money.
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But when you're volunteering and it's not, it's costing you time, I think that's the, the important element that you can say, "Ah, it's worth persevering."
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And I, I found that if you persevered with those kind of things in my early, early experience, was that you would get success, and we success, around those, those things I've talked about.
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Yeah, particularly people who needed to l-learn more skills in, in reading and writing to do a job as computers a-and, and technology have advanced, realizing that they, they, they probably weren't that well-versed in, and so just needed to brush up on some of their skills.
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It was wonderful to see those people then go on and, and get advancements in their employment as a, a-as a spinoff learning, uh, improved l-literacy skills.
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yeah, just as an example.
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But I think the main thing is perseverance and, and we, we tend to f-particularly shy putting the, in the effort.
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And I think that's d-just, just staying the course.
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You get great results if you can just...
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And, uh, yeah, that was a, a 20-year period for me lifetime, of just, um, persevering on those projects.
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So, and then I-- when I started getting involved in Men's Sheds, this waste, you, you know, making-- valuing it's just been a f- an eye-opener for me.
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A, a real awakening to see what we can do within the community and the value.
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And of course, Men's Sheds take it to a, a fabulous level when you go to some of these Men's Sheds and see some of the, the, the items that they produce out of what, what is gonna be l-landfill, particularly around, uh, wood and, and, and steel.
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There's that, Men's Sheds have been able to revalue, and we wanted to group, T- Transition Tones and more primarily, an that wanted to bring together a diversification of, kind of skills to bring sheds more for people in, in, in the sense of, more inclusive than men's sheds can be, because obviously they, they me- for men, which of course has got the advantage, advantages that men, it's proven, seem to benefit on all aspects by associating in those environments where there's only men.
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But we wanted to stay...
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This group that I was involved with doing the re- Repair Cafe, we wanted to take that to the next level.
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And we some years to g- get, get a space w- where we could operate from, but sadly, we weren't able to do that.
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W- what I'm trying to explain here is that I think there's still an element within that, that share shed movement that, that is yet to come, where we, we can create spaces for the community that are more inclusive than, than a men's shed actually is.
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If that, if that...
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Not without decrying how, how wonderful men's sheds have been for, for, for the communities, men themselves.
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So for men, the men's shed is a, is a great thing, but the men aren't the only people in the community.
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So they're-- you're looking at other things that can actually ensure that everybody in the community can be involved.
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Is that the sort of thing that you're looking at? It's probably a utopian kind of objective, but I think it's, it's, yeah.
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We, is a, there's an aspect of...
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The, the beauty of men's sheds is their autonomy, so they're, siloed into, those men want to do, and I think that's very important.
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And I think the, the brilliance the concept of men's sheds, which is quite rigorously, followed in the, in the sense of giving broad guidelines or broad, to operate within.
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But the, the beauty of every men's shed is they're all individual And being individuals, they decide how their Men's Shed should be run.
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Now, that is lovely, but there is an element then of exclusivity.
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I, I...
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This is my belief, and I, I think there's a, an opportunity to use that concept, method of operation, whi- which, which is, it's quite rigorous.
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They...
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There's good guidelines as to how, how Men's Shed should operate.
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I think there's a way of massaging that, kind of, to make it work more for inclusivity of, of, around, aspects just trying to make it more inclusive for, the, the broader community.
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So the taking the model and replicating it, doing a different thing so there's not too much Conflict or overlap, I guess.
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So the repair cafes do that in a, way.
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I, I think there's an element to that.
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Uh, um, but what-- Taking this to the next level with this project that we're now involved with, of the, Share Library, the, the Library of Things, take it, I think, if we get the right environment in which that, that, that library can be housed, I think there's opportunities to, to make it a broader thing around the share shed kind of concept.
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Particularly around that inclusivity yeah, ca-can become difficult for men's sheds to navigate.
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If- Mm.
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If, if- Well, they...
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And they don't need to navigate.
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They're doing great work, right? Absolutely.
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So- Yeah, yeah so the, the Library of Things is a opportunity to, to cover all of society, in a way that, does, or using a similar framework- Correct.
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Yeah to, to- Absolutely, yeah to fund it and- Yeah, yeah and, and that sort of thing.
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I think, if we can, as Transition Town Stirling, if we can get this project off the ground and get the right venue, that uh, is, primarily what I've described as, as tool libraries are working right now, where they, they're central to the community.
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They've, they've got the space, shared.
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So it's the space and time that everybody has, has a need to share, not necessarily at the same time.
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So the venue is very important to me to make that, that bigger thing work.
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Yeah, the share shed, yeah- Yeah.
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So- philosophy so what does a perfect venue looks like? I mean, I'm thinking about tools and stuff like that, and you almost think something set up, a similar framework to what a Bunnings is with racking and- Correct and those sorts of things.
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is, that the, the sort of thing, like a, a miniature warehouse? Because you've gotta be able to get to stuff too, don't you? Yeah.
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Central aspect to it, where it's, it's in the right place in the community.
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It's no use having it out in the middle of nowhere.
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But yeah, the...
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And, and got access, particularly around bus routes and things like that.
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Ideally, yeah, we are looking for a- And it could be a shared experience.
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It doesn't necessarily have to be exclusively ours.
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But, in, in the first instance, we need space primarily to put those racks and things in.
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and, something of a large space with a, a, a good degree of space around it.
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So the idea of a community garden to go with that would be the kind of, that we'd expect, so that there would be that community focus on, on outdoors.
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but it, certainly-- We, we tried very hard to, um, get an established, in, the, in the city.
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we identified a building which was, we thought was perfect for that particular...
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It was disused at the time, and we worked very hard to try and make that work.
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But that, that would be the, the ideal kind of thing to share that, that, at least area with, with another, like a, a bowling club, where, to be honest, bowling clubs go in one direction, bowling of course.
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becoming more flexible and doing more things.
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But to take this onto the next level, if we could find a, a, a, particularly some-something like a community sporting organization that have got the space Yeah.
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So for any community o- organization that's got the space and the, the will to, to change their operation, we, we would like to work with that kind of organization.
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So the type of organization would be one that has particular times that they would do things that you could work around, I guess.
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So if you think about a sporting organization that, you know, maybe it runs in an evening or, it has set times.
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Uh, and you can work there at other times.
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A- a- and a lot of let's take a bowling club, for example.
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A, a, a-- They, they've got space that they're no longer using.
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greens, um, a-as bowling clubs shrink their, size in terms of, happening with a lot of bowling clubs, not as popular as they once were.
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They might have a spare green, for example, that they no longer use.
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And so maybe there's an opportunity to utilize that space for something else, even if it's only temporary, like putting a sea container on it, for example.
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That, that's probably at the lower end of the scale of what we're aiming for in the long term.
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But yeah, that would be something that we would like to be able to do within the, the right confines of that, that space, to be able to work with a, an organization and bring a, a flourish of, of, of community involvement where, morning, or even in some cases, th-these library of things are open more than one day a week, but it's usually on a Saturday morning.
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For will lot of that will be coming to that venue.
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it doesn't necessarily mean they're just coming to pick up a tool.
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They might de-decide to stay and have a game of bowls, for example.
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Or they might, yeah.
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A-and they'll be-become aware of that facility, i-is really, in a lot of cases, there to serve that, the community to become more accessible for them.
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And so that takes you down a pathway that we would like to explore if we could find the right kind of, yeah, venue to- The right kind of venue.
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Yeah, yeah.
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So you al-almost think about something connected to, sporting or recreation-like reserve.
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I'll call it a reserve, for want of a better word, you know, probably linked in with the, the council or something like that, I would imagine.
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We've, we've worked with, um, our council, primarily great success.
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A-a-a-and particularly, the, um, Men my involving in Men sheds, uh, many, many councils have, have understood the benefits of Men sheds.
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The concept's grown, councils, those with progressive notions, have benefited greatly uh, having Men sheds there.
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This is just another, think the share-- shed concept, could be more integrated into an existing facility, not necessarily exclusive like Men sheds usually require a, a purpose-built building.
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We don't need-- We don't expect we'll need that kind of...
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Particularly when we first establish a, a, a location.
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We just need a, a really prime, primary location in terms of within the community.
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And, and as we can build it and, and develop it, then it, it is likely to, to, evolving kind of structure that may, may require us to, certainly councils and, and the community to, to develop a, a, a purpose-built building eventually.
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But in the short term, as I said ear- earlier, even a sea container, a, an area that's disused would be perfect for us to start a- and to trial it.
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and to say, I'm very biased here, that, that the Repair Cafe success has made us very confident that we believe that this, this, new concept that we, we, no doubt that it's not gonna work.
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Uh, and we've seen that time and time again, the communities that have already got tho- those sh- shared facilities.
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De- you're definitely providing value to the community, and the community recognizes that.
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Absolutely.
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A- and the benefits, a- a- as I say, go beyond, particularly around, a- a- around the, the library of things, goes way beyond what a- anybody's experienced so far.
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This is taking that, that aspect of waste to a new level, where we're avoiding landfill by Encouraging people not to have to buy the items that we very seldom use in our household and store, and they'll just be there for their availability.
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And that could go down to, in the longer term, w-we understand that sharing vehicles is not, not, not that, that concept of a shared vehicle in a, in, in a community.
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Uh, it could be a trailer, for example, or it could even be a car.
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it, Th-these things are not that unbelievably i- possible when you look at the, the, the, share concept, being rolled out over time.
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So there's a great s- opportunity for people to not have to own these large items and these costly items that we now take for granted, and, and in a lot of cases don't use to the extent that we need to.
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Well, more particularly that the amount you use it allows space for somebody else to use it as well.
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Absolutely.
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that aspect, I suppose as, generation, which is of course the baby get, get older and get less mobile and, a-and all the things that we've accumulated within our sheds and, and our, our, our storerooms, I particularly around the Men's Shed movement, they, become abundant a-and, and so plentiful, the community to share as we get older and don't use them.
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So there's an opportunity happening where there is a transition between generations, where the older generation can leave a legacy by not putting that stuff into landfill, but recycling it into the community through these, facilities that we would want to try and, introduce into, community.
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That's the Transition Tones to try and do that in a, in a more, established way than we are able to do at the moment.
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Yeah.
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plenty of benefits that we've talked about.
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How would someone get involved? Well, that's a, that's a great question really because w- a- again, with the aspects of the Repair Cafe that I've been involved with, turn up.
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it doesn't always work but I think if the like-minded people that, we, we, are all around us, uh, just need the opportunity to come along.
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We are very welcoming.
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We're always busy.
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That's probably the sad thing these days.
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When we first started the Repair Cafe, we, we were, we were a group of, a small core group, as I've already said.
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Started off as six people, and it was a delight to just sit and have a coffee because we got very few customers.
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But now, as I've already explained, you know, earlier, that, um, we g- we get pretty busy.
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So, um, but then we have social events, so usually we try and, that, of each session, we have the opportunity to go out and have lunch, group.
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and, that's an opportunity then to get to know each other.
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and probably the best way for people to come along to the Repair Cafe, to then, come along a- and then join us for lunch, and that way you, you can spend more time and social time being able to get a better understanding with like-minded people, whether you wanna be involved or not.
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So that's probably the best way with the Repair Cafe.
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the library of things, there's so many, of this, th- this phrase.
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it is Townes, but again, through, in the Repair Cafe, it would be very easy to just come along to the Repair Cafe, which is every, every Saturday between 10 uh, once a month.
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Every second Saturday, between 10 and 12.
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We're Hall at Doubleview.
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Yeah.
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corner of Hancock Street and Scarborough Beach Road Just come along and, and present.
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And there's so many aspects to the Repair Cafe beyond just repairing.
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It's more about the social aspects.
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And, and a lot things, trialed.
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We do, um, sharpening now, which has become very popular, a lot of probably more so the volunteers.
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But yeah, A- and again, all the items that we generally use are, are, are donated, either through, grants that we get or, or from the community.
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And, aspect, that elegant aspect of repurposing and recycling items that we no longer, want are, are, are already operating in, in, um, in our, yeah, Repair Cafe.
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It's just a delight to see so much stuff that we, we can re- reuse and, um, and benefit from.
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Fantastic.
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So sounds like it's pretty easy.
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You just need to show up.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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And no matter what your skills level are, you don't have to be a re- repair.
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We, we need all aspects of, of support, uh, around...
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There's a lot of administration now, uh, grown and got bigger.
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so if administration, if you're good at maths, 'cause we, we t- we do handle a fair bit of money now, a, a, a delight to think that we've become quite a viable, in a sense.
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Uh, and we're self-funded in that, in that manner.
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So yeah, there's so many, We, serve, teas So, people who do triaging so that, so that we can better service the customers when they come in, so that we can send them to the right place at the right time.
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so people needed, but it's more about just that involvement.
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And I think for me this is probably the enjoyable way of, sharing our time together.
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It's a, just a two-hour session.
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It's not a great deal of commitment to make.
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The beauty of Transition Tones is they do all the, the background work, so you just come along as a volunteer, enjoy the day m- rather than getting bogged down in all the things that, to do with governance Transition Tones manage, a- possible for these things to exist in the way they do.
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Yeah.
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Mm.
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Well, thank you very much, Chris, for- No worries coming on Forrest.Chat
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and sharing this world of, Share and Repair.
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Yes.
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It's, been fabulous hearing all about that.
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It's been a wonderful opportunity and, and I thank you, Paul, and I hope your listeners, get some value from what I, I think is a very exciting, for, community to, to- around this landfill avoidance, and I'm gonna plug that because I think it's so important that th- there's, there's things happening that I'd say on a global scale that are just wonderful, ways for us to, improve the environment to the benefit next generation.
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Yeah, yeah.
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There's a whole-- The consumerism side of things just, fills landfill.
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uh- at alarming rate, of course, and we all know this, and this is just one very, very small way, of course, that gets us reduce that, terrible scourge on our community.
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And also connects people.
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Ab- absolutely.
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So there's a, it's a, it's a win-win.
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There's that.
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elegance, and I keep referring to that word elegant, there is an elegance to that, the way it dovetails w- one end to another, and there's no reason why that shouldn't continue.
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Mm.
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Wonderful.
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Thank you very much, Chris, and all Forrest.Chat
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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