Bringing together repairers, fixers and makers in the local community
The group is really flourishing with about a dozen of us meeting above Oxfam every Friday morning. Alongside variously themed sessions, for a few months we have been working on a commission fromWandsworth Carers to make a banner for their new Iris Cafe, a group for people with dementia and theircarers which meets monthly in […]
Read More →What a fantastic afternoon of fixing we had in our new Balham venue – St Mary’s Church. Our trusty fixers tackled coffee machines and grinders, toasters, amplifiers, radios, hedge trimmers and even a keyboard! Check out these fantastic pictures of some of the day’s successful fixes…. We were especially thrilled as three new fixers joined […]
Read More →Local community experimenters Gemma and Jeni trundled the Listening Cart back to school to capture the inner thinking of The Children (whom they believe are indeed our future). Together they looked at repair, what it means to different people and how it might connect us to others through the shared need to fix, not throw […]
Read More →from 24th November at Tooting Market A highlight of our Repair Fest 2021 is a photography exhibition offering a window into a selection of local businesses in the community where you can get items, fixed, stitched, welded, and repaired. By changing the habit of throwing things out, and by choosing to repair we save money […]
Read More →Oasis Wandsworth and ‘My Old Girl and Me’ relive their glorious union for this immensely popular and fun upcycling workshop. Monday 29th November, 2-4 at Tooting Market, bookings can be made via Eventbrite
Read More →We had a very successful time at our October Restart workshop – we started out with only three fixers but two people who came with things to mend joined in and started helping others! Thanks Shazia and Hitha! Restart Parties are a community self-repair space where you take responsibility for your own gadgets and data, […]
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Read More →Read all about Tooting’s first ever Repair Week!
Read More →Celebrating and sharing repairing, fixing and making in our local community! Read all about our Share & Repair Activities below: 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 […]
Read More →Do you have electrical or electronic items that you don’t want to throw away?Or a sewing machine that is broken or you’re not sure how to use? Have a favourite piece of clothing that needs mending or altering and you’d like to learn how? Or simply good at fixing and mending stuff?Maybe you just fancy […]
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