Bringing together repairers, fixers and makers in the local community
Sewing and Sanctuary is a women’s sewing group which was founded in May 2022. It is a Transition Town Tooting project run in partnership with Oxfam Tooting. We are a place of sanctuary where women of refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds and women from the local community meet, stitch and chat. We enjoy learning together, […]
Read More →The much anticipated, Community Stitching Upcycled Fashion Show took place on Saturday 20th September at Tooting United Reformed Church. The fashion show started at 12.30 pm and about twenty upcycled outfits were showcased by our amazing models, most of whom were regular members of the Sewing and Sanctuary group, complemented by friends and family. Our […]
Read More →Read all about Tooting Repair Club launch, Repair Week 2025 and Leaping out of Windows without fear from local fixer Dermot – and email us at repairclub.org@gmail.com or visit the Tooting Repair Club web page to hear about future sessions. The first rule of Repair Club is: “You do not talk about Repair Club” So like […]
Read More →We have now reached our second anniversary and the sewing group is going from strength to strength with around 20 regular members. Last year we featured in two short Oxfam films marking Refugee Week and Secondhand September. Also marking the latter, we ran a sashiko denim patch workshop for 30 Oxfam shop managers and staff, […]
Read More →A fabulous time was had by all at the Sew It, Show Picnic and Parade. The event was a celebration of slow fashion featuring sewing, stitching, crafting, fixing, mending and swapping – a picnic and a parade! The event bought together indivduals and community groups from across Tooting with workshops from Work & Play Scrapstore, […]
Read More →Saturday 24th June 20 All Saints Gardens Come dressed in something you’ve made yourself, or repaired or bought in a charity shop, get ready to parade or support; join a sewing workshop or watch expert knitters and don’t forget to bring a picnic. Our Share & Repair group are thrilled that the team behind Fixing […]
Read More →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 the […]
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 […]
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