AN organisation which hosts repair cafes across Cornwall to fix broken household items is staging two events on Saturday, October 26.

Treverbyn Community Trust, which is based at the Treverbyn Hall, near Stenalees in the Clay Country, is running the repair cafes in St Ives and at Tregony on the Roseland Peninsula.

The St Ives Repair Cafe – email [email protected] – will take place at The Core, St Ives Community Orchard, from 11am to 1pm, while the Tregony Repair Cafe – email [email protected] – will be held at Tregony Village Hall, from 1pm to 3pm.

People in the two areas are being invited to take along broken household items, from lamps, game consols, radios and keyboards to toys, phones, toasters and kettles, to be mended.

So far almost 300 items have been repaired or recycled around the county by Treverbyn Community Trust volunteers.

Last year, the trust received a £45,000 grant from the Time After Time fund, established by Virgin Media O2 and environmental charity Hubbub.

The funding enabled the trust’s “Really Lovely Van” to be equipped as a mobile electronics repair centre. So far, the van has made 57 trips, covering more than 900 miles to reach various communities across the county.