Celebrating and sharing repairing, fixing and making in our local community!

Read all about our Share & Repair Activities below:

• Broken electrical or electronic items you don’t want to throw away or sewing and mending that needs doing? We hold regular Fixing and Mending sessions in Tooting and Balham – dates below.
• Looking for local repair, fixing and mending businesse? Check out our maps – and let us know if you have recommendations we should add!
• Read all about our RepairFest in 2023 and our first Repair Week in 2022.
• Do you know of any unused local spaces? Our long-term ambition is to find a permanent a self-sufficient space for Tooting’s Share & Repair community!

Fixing and Mending Parties

DATES FOR 2023 (for full details of upcoming events see our Facebook page)

Sat 20 May 2023 – Balham (St Mary’s Church, Balham High Rd, London SW12 9BS)

Sat 22 July 2023 – Tooting (United Reform Church, Rookstone Rd, London SW17 9NQ)

Sat 16 Sept 2023 – Balham (St Mary’s Church, Balham High Rd, London SW12 9BS)

Sat 11 Nov 2023 – Tooting (United Reform Church, Rookstone Rd, London SW17 9NQ)

Tooting and Balham repair Maps

The map shows local repair businesses in purple and venues for the 2021 Tooting Repairfest in yellow. Click on the location pointers for more info. If you have a business you would like to add to the map email us details at transitiontowntooting@gmail.com

Below is a Sustainability map created by Neighbourhood Network SW12 & SW17 which lists all the places you can reuse, refill, recycle and repair things in the local area.

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Fixing Fashion – A show with a difference – at Tooting Market – more HERE

Broken Assembly with Furzedown Primary School – more HERE

Restart Party at Mushkil Aasaan – more HERE

Photography Exhibition at Tooting Market – more HERE

Sewing Box workshop with CARAS Women’s Group – more HERE

Collaborative Protest Coat – Repair for our Future and Fix Your Knitwear – darning workshop at the Woodfield Pavilion’s Big Green Weekend

As Gemma from Meet & Make Spaces who co-ordinated many of the events reflected ‘Overall the festival was a triumph, We found that the idea of fixing, repair and mending felt ‘normalised’ to many people and I think was why it was such an overriding success, it felt like it was a ’thing’ that always happened.’

We look forward to making plans for 2022 – if you’d like to get involved do let us know!

Read about our first Repair week in July 2021

Tooting RepairFest was coordinated by Jeni and Gemma at Meet & Make Spaces.

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Help us by

• Sharing details with us of any local businesses that do repair, fixing, mending or alterations – this could include working with electrical or electronic goods, furniture, clothes, leather goods, upholstery – and more…
• Letting us know if you have fixing or mending skills which you’d be happy to share with the community through this group – or you know someone who does….
• Telling us if you have something to offer the Share & Repair community – space, materials, tools or other skills like project planning, communications, social media, photography – anything which might help us build our work.

Contact and Follow

• Email enquiries about Repair Week and Repairfest can go directly to Jeni and Gemma at info@meetandmakespaces.co.uk

• Email enquiries for the Share and Repair project more generally can go to the team at transitiontowntooting@gmail.com

• Project tweets and posts will go up on Transition Town Tooting’s Twitter and Instagram

• You can join the Share & Repair Facebook Group for project-specific updates

• Please add your repair to our online repair storybook, Share Your Repair or post using #SYRTooting

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