The last trial day for Millicent’s final Repair Café attracted a below-average number of participants.


After a slow start, the repair cafe’s popularity has waxed and waned over the last six months with between four and 16 items repaired each time.


Electrical items were not fixed but volunteers were on hand to help with mending, woodwork, metalwork and other handiwork skills.


The Millicent Repair Cafe has been held on one Saturday of each month at the Men’s Shed in Fifth Street.


Millicent resident Wayne Sutcliffe expressed his gratitude to Men’s Shed volunteer Chris Mathias for mending an oak side table.


“It is about 60-70 years old,” he said.


“The table belonged to my late parents and It was always in our shack at Beachport.”


The Repair Cafe has been an initiative of the Wattle Range Council Climate Change Committee as a way of reducing landfill.


Committee member and Repair Café coordinator Sandra Young said the trial would now be reviewed by the council and she hoped it would continue.


“Perhaps we could have the Repair Café on a set Saturday each month rather than move about,” she said.