Repair

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London Repair Week: March 20-26

March 20-26, 2023 is London Repair Week, an annual celebration of repair throughout London where we invite you to gain repair skills, fall back in love with your stuff and help save some money and the planet while you’re at it! With numerous workshops happening around the city, spotlights on our #LocalRepairHeroes and a bunch of tips and tricks to help you repair your stuff, Repair Week is designed to give you the confidence to get repairing!

Here are some events in West London where you can learn to repair your clothes:

Monday, March 20, Happy Coffee, 158 Northfield Ave, London W13 9SB, 10am-12pm. Bring along your mending pile for friendly chat and advice. Our sewing machines will be there too. https://facebook.com/events/s/ealing-repair-cafe-patch-darn-/1340464910016906/

Thursday, March 23: Launch of Hammersmith Mending Circle, Livat Centre, Kings Street, Hammersmith. From 5.30 pm until 8.30 pm. For more details of London Repair week https://londonrecycles.co.uk/repair-week/

For more dates, see https://ealingrepaircafe.org/whats-on/

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Setting up a clothes repair cafeL https://ealingrepaircafe.org/2023/03/14/setting-up-a-clothes-repair-cafe

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Join us for free clothing repair workshops starting February 24th

Brentford Clothes Repair Cafe is running a series of sessions delivered by experts clothes repair professionals throughout 2023.

The first session in the series of free expert workshops will run on Friday, February 24, from 9.30 – 11.30am at Spire Cafe, St. Paul’s Church, St Paul’s Rd, Brentford TW8 0PN.

This session will be delivered by the brilliant Brentford-based seamstress Mary O’Shea. Here we will be looking at general alternations and the basic skills / confidence required to tackle simple clothes repair projects. Everyone from the very beginner is welcome. You will also receive a FREE sewing kit when attending.

We will practice the skills we’ve learnt as well as act as a reminder why we want to encourage more people to have a go at clothes repairing we will be crafting a Green Heart as part of the Climate Coalition’s February campaign https://www.theclimatecoalition.org/show-the-love). We will encourage people to share their heart with MPs and wear to prompt green conversations. Do come along and share with others who might be interested – it’ll be a lot of green fun as well as a bit of Craftivism!

Space are limited, so let Sarah Salisbury know if you’d like to book a space on Friday, February 24, by emailing her at ecochurch@parishofbrentford.org.uk. Do also feel free to circulate in your networks 😊. Information can be found on the following websites:

https://parishofbrentford.org.uk/your-community/clothes-repair-cafe/

https://m.facebook.com/100086288529721/

https://www.instagram.com/brentfordclothesrepaircafe

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Second Chiswick Repair Cafe on Saturday, 19 November

The second ever Chiswick Repair Café is taking place this Saturday (19 November) at Christ Church Turnham Green from 10.30am to 1pm.

The first event has been hailed as a big success with over 30 items brought in most of which were fixed. Over 20 volunteers with repair expertise participated in repairing, teaching skills and advising people on how to mend their items.

It’s a voluntary initiative to reduce waste, share repair skills and enhance the local community. People bring broken or worn items to the Repair Café and the volunteers help them to mend it, or advise what else can be done.

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Ealing Repair Cafe dates for November

Ealing Repair Cafe – Details of next events

Ealing Repair Cafe’s next event will take place on Tuesday, 29 November. It will be a Patch, Darn and Natter session at Northfields Community Library, 255A Northfield Ave, London W5 4UA, from 5.30 until 6.45 pm

A number of events are also scheduled for December.

  • Saturday 3 December: Reduce and Recycle Hub, Acton Market W3, Ealing Repair cafe and other organisations will be at the market promoting how to reduce and recycle.
  • Monday Meetup, 5 December, Happy Coffee, 158 Northfield Avenue, Ealing W13 9SB. From 10 am to 12 noon.

Come along to Ealing Repair Cafe with your mending pile to get advice and guidance. Our volunteers will be on hand to teach you on how to repair your clothes. You can also pick up one of our darning and patching guides. We run meet ups that give help and advice on patching and darning, using hand sewing. For some events, we bring along our sewing machine to try out on alterations and mending seams. Ealing Repair Cafe website is https://ealingrepaircafe.org/.

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Re’store, W3 Launching SOON

PRESS RELEASE 14TH OCT 2022

Re’Store, W3 is launching soon in Acton. It is a circular economy hub to be used for restoring, repairing and reselling clothing and household goods.

W3 Hive CIC won GLA funding for the ReStore concept, which seeks to activate a shop at Churchfield Rd, W3 where it will host pop ups and workshops.

Ealing Council is offering the use of the shop at no. 98 Churchfield Rd on a peppercorn rent. Contracts are currently being drawn up and the shop is expected to open sometime in November.

The space will also be used to pilot a Re-School of Entrepreneurship to teach the principles of building a business through circular economy concepts. One of the first projects to be launched will be a community-owned jewellery brand – individuals can sign up to take part in the process to learn how to build a brand from scratch.

Founder Kal Di Paola says:

“We want to create an innovative space to inspire local people to repurpose and repair old things into something new. Waste will be our raw material. We will develop ideas where local people can come together to teach, learn, earn and collaborate.

“New ideas will be launched. Entrepreneurship will be encouraged. Collaborations will be created. This is a space that’s open to all and we will encourage the local community to take part in pop ups, events, and up-cycling and repurposing projects.”

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Bring your broken electronic goods to Hammersmith to repair

Livat Shopping Centre in Hammersmith is doing monthly electronic goods repair parties, held on Sundays from 1pm to 5pm at Livat Hammersmith, King Street, Hammersmith W6 9HW. The next repair party is on October 23, followed by one on November 27.

For information about the repair parties, click here.

Note: Booking a time slot for your repair is required.

The parties are being run by West Central London Fixers. Click here to learn more about the organisation.