Volunteer Story Celebration 2025 - Raumati South Repair Café

The Raumati South Repair Cafe started over 2 years ago running bi-monthly Repair events for Kāpiti. We have a wide range of volunteers who help run our events where 100 plus community people attend. We have repairers for sewing, sewing machines, bags and shoes, jewellery, general repairs (screw and glue) bikes and scooters, knife and tool sharpening and electrical and electronics. We also have reception and host volunteers.

We have a fantastic organising team of 6 who all work smoothly together to create a welcoming event that encircles our community. One of our organiser volunteers creates food to feed lunch to our volunteers. One oversees the running of the food cafe, one oversees the volunteers, one does administrative and advertising, one does treasury and data entry and one works with our electrical team. All do their assigned task without need for supervision.

All our volunteers give their time freely and we have so many volunteers it’s hard to turn anyone away. Some even bring their children to help out too!