Transition Town Tooting

Tag: Mending

  • Restart Party on Tuesday

    Broken electrical or electronic items that you don’t want to throw away? Good at fixing or mending stuff or would like to learn how? 
    Come to a Restart Party! 

    and help keep stuff out of landfill. The next Restart Party in Tooting is this coming Tuesday 21st June at 7pm.

    Restart Parties are the antidote to the thowaway society, why bin your sickly electronics when they could easily live a bit longer with some TLC?  Laptops, cameras, kitchen appliances, gadgets etc. – we will try to mend anything or at least tell you what’s wrong and what to do next and it’s all completely free!

    #TourdeTooting At Tuesday’s party you can also get your bike checked out by Dr Bike as part of our Tour de Tooting preparations.  So bring your wheels as well as your electronics!

    Do remember that Restart Parties are a community self-repair space where you take responsibility for your own electronic items and data, so please don’t forget to take any back-ups beforehand, if relevant.  Also, if possible, do please arrive during the first two hours to allow time for fixing! 

    The next 3 Restart parties in Tooting, all at Mushkil Aasaan, 220 – 222 Upper Tooting Road, SW17 7EW are scheduled for :
    > Tuesday 21st June, 7 – 9.30 pm 
    > Tuesday 9th August, 7 – 9.30 pm 
    > Saturday 12th November, 2 – 5pm 

    More info about Restart including details of regular skillshares at www.therestartproject.org 

  • Restart Returns To Tooting

    TTT is happy to announce the first Restart Party of 2016 on Saturday 20 February from 2 to 5pm at Mushkil Aasaan, 220 – 222 Upper Tooting Road, SW17 7EW (next to Nando’s).  Download the POSTER.

    You may recall that Restart is the project that aims to keep electronic items out of landfill by trying to fix things as opposed to throwing them away. 

    Could you get involved?

    Maybe you have something that needs fixing?  Laptop? Toaster? Phone? Kettle? Toy? Hairdryer? 

    Or maybe you are good at mending stuff and fancy working out how to fix something?

    Either way come down to Tooting on Saturday 20th Feb and join in! You might be amazed at what is possible.


    Alongside this Restart Party, TTT will be running an Open Day. If you’ve ever wondered what Transition Town Tooting does and if you might like to be involved, then do come along and find out about all the great projects in Tooting, from the Foodival to the Community Garden, Oak Carving to Neighbourhood Planning. Join us for a cuppa and a chat!

  • Meet & Make Thursday 8th October

  • Electrical or electronic items that need fixing?

    Broken something & reluctant to throw it away?
    The Restart Project, encourage and empower people to use their electrical and electronics longer!  They are back in Tooting on Saturday 26th September – 2.30 – 5.30pm at Mushkil Aasaan, 220 – 222 Upper Tooting Road, SW17 7EW (next to Nandos), so do come along! blog post image
    Do note that Restart Parties are a community self-repair space where you take responsibility for your own gadgets and data, so please do not forget to take any back-ups beforehand, if relevant – and if possible arrive during the first two hours to allow time for fixing!


    Restart Parties have become a regular feature in Tooting and we are on the lookout for skilled local fixers. If you are interested come along and say hello – or email Hilary Jennings for details.

    More info re the Restart Project HERE including details of regular skillshares all over the UK and further afield.

  • The Anti-Upgrading Exhibition – at the Lightbox

    ‘Our enormously productive economy demands we make consumption a way of life’.

    This is a quote from 1955 on the wall of an exhibition now showing at the Lightbox Gallery in Woking.

    A toilet brush is the unlikely centre-piece of the exhibition.  Its description reads ‘This is a well designed toilet brush from Addis bought in the late ‘80’s when our house was built, and still as good as new! It still performs perfectly…. it has probably been used over 30,000 times…. (This brush has been very thoroughly cleaned!)
    The exhibition ‘Waste Not…’ runs (free) until 8thApril at the gallery (30 mins on the train from Clapham Junction or Wimbledon).  It is an exhibition of old appliances and other objects that are still used – or at least have been kept in the hope of being used!  
    It shows the objects themselves and short films of their owners talking about them.  It’s all about maintaining things – it is the anti-upgrading exhibition! 

    On 28th March, the South London Makerspace and Restart Project held a fixing and mending workshop at the gallery where they showed members of the local community how to fix their electrical and electronic items, sharpen old saws and tools and mend self-assembly furniture with new parts printed on a 3-D printer!

    If you are interested in getting involved locally with mending, fixing or making – or just have something you’d like to fix – come along to our Tooting Restart Project workshops  at Mushkil Aasaan, 220 – 222 Upper Tooting Road, SW17 7EW (next to Nandos)
    Sat 25th April – 2.30 – 5.30
    Sat 11th July – 2.30 – 5.30
    Sat 26th September – 2.30 – 5.30

  • Number 5 in TTT’s ’12 tweets to Christmas’

    Here is tweet number five:
    No. 5 in @tttooting‘s 12 days to xmas: Broken Xmas present? Save it from landfill – head to a @RestartProject Party and learn how to fix it!

  • Restart Party in Tooting Sept 9th

    We are delighted to announce that the Restart Project, a London-based social enterprise that encourages and empowers people to use their electronics longer, have agreed to run a “Restart Party” with TTT in Tooting next month. 


    The Restart Project aims to reduce electronic waste by helping people learn fundamental repair and maintenance skills, enabling them to fix all kinds of electronic devices rather than throw them away or recycle them.  Slow laptops, broken printers, smartphones, coffee grinders, you name it, Restart will attempt to assist with a fix. 

    Sound interesting? Then come along to the event, challenge the culture of built-in obsolescence and take back control of all your electronic stuff!  Do note that Restart Parties are a community self-repair space where you take responsibility for your own gadgets & data, so please do not forget to take any back-ups beforehand, if relevant !

    We look forward to seeing you at this great event at Mushkil Aasaan, 220 – 222 Upper Tooting Road, SW17 7EW, Tuesday Sep 9th from 6 to 9pm. The event is also advertised om meetup.com here.