Tool Sharpener – The Repair Cafe Uckfield

Uckfieldvolunteer; Uckfield; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A local community volunteer group seeks a practical individual experienced in tool sharpening to join their monthly repair café team in Uckfield. The role involves sharpening a variety of metal tools brought by community members, contributing to sustainability and local engagement. Volunteers will need their own sharpening tools and should be available on the fourth Saturday of each month. This ideal role promotes community involvement and skill-sharing, with any costs for materials reimbursed from donations.

Benefits

Community engagement

Skill sharing

Reimbursement for expenses

Qualifications

• Experience in sharpening a range of metal tools safely.
• Willingness to volunteer once a month.
• Ability to work collaboratively with a team.

Responsibilities

• Sharpen tools for local community members.
• Assist customers during monthly drop-in sessions.
• Engage with fellow repairers and promote community repair culture.

Skills

Tool sharpening

Practical skills

Communication

Tools

Files

Sharpening stones

Job description

The Repair Cafe in Uckfield is a part of Sussex Support Services based in Victoria Pleasure Ground. Set up to help counter the culture of throwing items away the moment something goes wrong, they repair a whole range of household items people bring along. Their categories include: clothes/textiles, bicycles, electrical appliances, computers/software issues, general woodwork, tool sharpening, general maintenance on furniture and wooden objects.

It is held at Victoria Pavilion on the 4th Saturday of every month, except for December.

About this opportunity

Are you a practical person, good at sharpening a range of metal tools, from garden shears to chef’s knives? Would you be happy doing this once a month for local folk as part of our repair team?

Uckfield Repair Café are seeking such a person to join our group of nearly thirty repairers, specifically to help sharpen tools that are brought in by our customers to our monthly drop in sessions.

This is the perfect opportunity for someone wanting to do something practical to help local people repair and improve their items, and join in with the amazing work that goes on at the repair café.

There is no age limit but applicants will need to be experienced in doing this job safely. We have a few hand tool such as files and sharpening stones, but we also encourage our repairers to bring their own equipment that they are familiar with. All volunteers give their time freely, but any pre‑agreed legitimate out of pocket expenses for tools and materials involved in the task will be met out of voluntary donations from our customers.

The sessions are on the 4th Saturday of each month (except for December). We set up from 9am for the public attend between 9.30 and 12.30, and we clear up by 1pm.

For more information

For more information please either come in and see us at Wealden Volunteering, or call us on 01825 760019, or email us at [e-mail]