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Come and get your stuff fixed!

Our next repair cafe is back, and this time proudly part of the Repair Festival Aotearoa🛠🧵
We’re on a mission to help each other keep more stuff out of landfill. Want to get involved? Bring along your broken items to Te Rua Makerspace (Level 2, Puaka-James Hight Library) between 11am – 1pm on Wednesday 18 September, and our amazing volunteers will be able to help perform free repairs such as:
🌟 Darning, hand sewing and glueing
🌟 General clothing and textile repair
🌟 Jewellery repair
🌟 Shoe repair including glueing, stitching, sole fixing, eyelet repair and replacement
🌟 Industrial sewing for more heavy duty items, like canvas or bag repair
🌟 Leather stitching and leather hole punching
🌟 Eye glass repair
🌟 Iron on patching for clothing like denim and waterproof/puffa jackets
🌟 No electronic repairs (sorry).
If you have repair skills and would like to be involved as a volunteer, or have any questions about the event, please email chloe.sutton@canterbury.ac.nz.
This event is proudly part of the Repair Festival Aotearoa, which is running from 14 – 22 September 2024. This week-long celebration will be held across the country, bringing communities together to celebrate fixing, mending, and extending the life of our belongings.

Free chairs!

The University has an excess of approximately 30 office chairs in need of loving new homes. They are being offered free to students and staff, on a first-come-first-served basis.

The chairs are available to be collected from Psychology – Sociology 116 before 4pm Friday 23 August. Please note it is only the maroon wheelie chairs (pictured) available.

If you have any questions, please contact Sustainability on sustainability@canterbury.ac.nz.

Cheers for helping us rehome these chairs!

Last chance to do the Travel Survey!

Whether you bus, bike, walk, skate, scoot, or drive to campus, we’d like to hear from you!

Have your voice heard on travel and transport matters by clicking on the online survey here. The survey takes less than 5 minutes to complete.

Why do the survey? Conducted every four years, the travel survey gives us valuable information to help us improve transport options and experiences at UC, such as installing bike lockups, advocating on your behalf for cheaper bus fares or addressing car-parking concerns.

Plus, everyone who participates in the survey goes in the draw to win a UC hoodie!