The hugely successful Twickenham Repair Café is back this weekend with a special focus on Christmas and children.

The team of volunteers have breathed new life into hundreds of items, from bikes to toasters, saving them being dumped.

This month the event, which operates out of St Margarets Church, East Twickenham, will help people trying to rescue old toys, Christmas lights and support children in learning how to repair broken items.

Programmes like The Repair Shop on BBC, which was even recently visited by King Charles, have fuelled a remarkable surge in the idea of repair and re-using items – as an antidote to the throwaway society.

The Repair Café held on Saturday will have a Kids Repair Zone to help children 'fix the future'. Youngsters will be encouraged to take things apart to better understand how they work and, hopefully, put them back together again.

There will also be a 'Repairs for Christmas' theme, where people will be encouraged to bring along tree lights, decorations, festive wreaths and other items that may need a little TLC.

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The volunteers have expertise in repairing clothes and textiles, household and garden electricals, electronics and radios, bikes, ceramics, computer hardware, games consoles, clocks, toys, furniture and upholstery, woodwork, and tools.

* The event takes place on Saturday – November 19 – and runs from 10.30am through to 1pm.