Training and Events
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Home Energy Advice Stall
Takes place monthly outside of the Cambridge Room Repair Cafe, first Saturday of each month from 9 am -12 pm
Our Home Energy Advisors can talk to you about your home and help you to work out ways to make it more comfortable, healthier and more energy efficient. This can be anything from sealing draughts, understanding your heating controls and avoiding mould growth to insulating your loft, changing to an air source heat pump or embarking on a full retrofit..
We welcome conversations with tenants and landlords as well as homeowners.
If you would like to join our team of Home Energy Advisors (full training given), please click the button below.
Upcoming dates
Sat 2nd May 2026
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Airtightness Workshop - Find those hidden air leaks and seal them!
Coming Soon
Join this practical workshop to get hands-on experience using a thermal camera to find where heat is leaving your home. Learn techniques in applying airtightness tape to reduce this heat loss and draughts.
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Build your own Airtightness In-Window Fan
Coming Soon
A practical workshop where you build-your-own in window fan to take away with you - We supply all the PAT tested, CE rated components and tools plus the support to help you make and use your own airtightness measurement tool. We are also offering free observation places for this training.
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Cambridge Room Repair Cafe
Sat 7th March 2026, 9:00am – 12:00pm
The Cambridge Room Repair Cafe welcomes you anytime between 9am – 12pm at Unit 57, The Grafton Centre (opposite Boots).
No need to book, just turn up with your item needing repair and whilst you wait come learn about Cambridge Room. Our experienced volunteer repairers will do their best to fix things such as electronics, electro-mechanicals, small mechanical items and clothing. Repairs are free; any donations will go to Cambridge Room and to pay volunteer expenses.
How to get here: The Grafton Centre is a 20 minute walk from Cambridge Railway Station. There is bike parking available on Fitzroy and Burleigh Street. The four Park and Ride services stop at the Graton Bus Interchange every 10 mins and the Grafton Centre has two car parks (Sat Nav reference: CB1 1DB). Access information: Blue Badge parking bays are located on Level 4 of Grafton East car park. The Grafton Centre has a Shopmobility office on Level 4 of the Grafton East car park, where customers can borrow electric mobility scooters, electric wheelchairs, push wheelchairs, or rollators. There are lifts available for accessing different floors within the centre. New toilets, including disabled toilets, are located on the first floor, accessible via lift.
This event is insured by Wessex Insurance and run in partnership with Cambridge Carbon Footprint.
Location
The Cambridge Room Repair Cafe, 57 Grafton Centre, Cambridge CB1 1DB, UK -
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Retroffiting for every budget...or none! Talk, Screening and Q&A
Improve the health, comfort and running costs of your home at this free community event:
New talks coming soon. Why not book one for your community - contact us below!
Previous events
Airtightness Workshop
These practical workshops enabled people to get hands-on experience using a thermal camera to find where heat is leaving their home. They learnt techniques in applying airtightness tape to reduce this heat loss and draughts.
Sat 31 Jan, Colleridge, Cambridge City Council Funded
Sat 28th Feb, Colleridge, Cambridge City Council Funded
Build your own Airtightness In-Window Fan
A practical workshop where attendees build-their-own in window fan to take away - We supply all the PAT tested, CE rated components and tools plus the support to help make and use their own airtightness measurement tool. We also offer free observation places for this training.
Sat 14th Jan, Cambridge City Council Funded
Sat 28th March, Cambridge City Council Funded
Retrofit and Rainwater Harvesting
At a deep retrofit site attendees toured the retrofit elements and enjoyed presentations by Water Sensitive Cambridge and a Rainwater Harvesting expert.
Wed 7th July 2025, Greville Road, Cambridge, Zero Carbon House
Introduction to Retrofit online talk
As part of Cambridge Carbon Footprint’s Open Eco Homes programme our experts Matthew Tulley and Rob Leedham introduce the key themes of home energy retrofit with an exploration of deep retrofit measures, telling stories of past retrofits and progress with current projects. View the recording of this talk here.
Screening Power Station - with community meal and panel Q&A on Community Energy
As part of Cambridge Carbon Footprint’s Open Eco Homes programme our experts Matthew Tulley and Rob Leedham introduce the key themes of home energy retrofit with an exploration of deep retrofit measures, telling stories of past retrofits and progress with current projects. View the recording of this talk here.
Retrofit for every budget…or none! - community talks
Presentations, including short films and Q&A with expert panel covering ways communities can work together to improve their home environments and save both money and carbon emissions.
Find out about basic low cost to no cost solutions and more to improve the energy efficiency and comfort of your home; how to ventilate your home to avoid mould; better insulate and seal leaks; and take advantage of renewable technologies.
Sat 21st March, Trumpington Pavilion, Cambridge City Council Funded
Wed 4th March, Milton Road Library, Cambridge City Council Funded
Sun 8 Feb, Haslingfield & Harlton Eco Group, South Cambs District Council Funded
Wed 28 Jan, St Johns Church, Queen Ediths Community Forum, Cambridge City Council Funded
Mon 24th Nov - Introduction to Retrofit - Introduction to Retrofit
Thanks to our funders and supporters.
