Share & Repair
Celebrating repairing, fixing and making in our local community – read all about our different activities.
Repair and mending sessions
Fun and free events where you learn how to fix and take back control of your electricals: Slow or damaged laptops, smartphones, radios, kettles and many of your other favourite devices can often be put right so “don’t despair, just repair”. Buttons missing from your shirts? Holes in your jumpers? Bring your repair and stitching projects along to the sewing table. Join with others and do your mending, sewing, knitting and crochet in company – with skills sharing if you’d like it (for fuller details of upcoming sessions see our Facebook page)
UPCOMING SESSIONS – all 13.00 – 16.00 hrs
Sat 1 November 2025 – Tooting (United Reform Church, Rookstone Rd, London SW17 9NQ)
Sat 10 January 2026 – Balham (St Mary’s Church, Balham High Rd, London SW12 9BS)
Sat 7 March 2026 – Tooting (United Reform Church, Rookstone Rd, London SW17 9NQ)
Sat 2 May 2026 – Balham (St Mary’s Church, Balham High Rd, London SW12 9BS)
Sat 4 July 2026 – Tooting (United Reform Church, Rookstone Rd, London SW17 9NQ)
Sat 12 September 2026 – Balham – Green Fair at (St Mary’s Church, Balham High Rd, London SW12 9BS)
Sat 7 November 2026 – Tooting (United Reform Church, Rookstone Rd, London SW17 9NQ)
Tooting Repair Club
Repair Club is a group of like-minded local people who meet regularly in Tooting to share and develop repair skills and fix stuff, in a social setting. If you’re already a keen fixer, or an interested beginner who would like to develop your skills, everyone is most welcome!
For more information and news including dates of regular open sessions contact info@repairclub.org
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.
READ ALL ABOUT some great events we have hosted….
Community Stitching Upcycled Fashion Show – more HERE
Sew it! Show it Picnic and Parade – more HERE
Fixing Fashion – A show with a difference – at Tooting Market in 2022- 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
Our First Ever Repair Week in July 2021 – more HERE
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 for the Share and Repair project go to the team at transitiontowntooting@gmail.com
- 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
Share and Repair was developed as part of the national Transition Bounce Forward programme