Repair Week 2025
Repair Week is an annual celebration of repair throughout London where everyone is invited to learn repair skills, save some money and help protect the planet while at it!
Find out what's happening across London by visiting the London Recycles website. Keep reading to find out what's available locally.
Visible Mending Workshop at Kingston Hive
We have been bringing monthly textiles upcycling workshops in partnership with Loom. For Repair week, we are partnering with Kingston Hive to bring you a Visible Mending workshop. You will learn beautiful decorative stitch techniques you can use to mend and repair your much loved pieces and breathe new life into well-worn clothes.
Saturday 8th March - Kingston Hive - Visible Mending Workshop
Kingston Hive also runs a Craft and Connect workshop twice a week, every fortnight and will be running one on Tuesday 4th March, creating a space for the community to engage in mindful crafting.
Kingston Adult Education - Sewing, Upcycling and Weaving Courses
Kingston Adult Education has a wide range of courses which promote wellbeing, arts and craft. These include courses in sewing, upcycling and weaving. These courses are open to people of all skill levels. Check out their courses if you wish to develop your repair and upcycling skills further!
Revive All at Save the World Club
Save the World Club has set up a repair shop for electrical items at their warehouse. Residents are able to bring their broken electronics to be assessed for repair by their pool of volunteers. For repair week, Save the World Club will be running two events:
Tuesday 4th March - 5pm to 6:30pm - Problemx with plugs - Learn how to change a fuse in a plug
Saturday 8th March - 3pm to 6pm - An Open Day to show off the Revive All Workshop.
Throughout the year: Repair Café Kingston
Hosted at Kingston Library, the Repair Café opens on the first Saturday of every month. They will be hosting a Repair Café on Saturday 1st March 2025 from 10:30am to 1pm.
Visit the Transition Town Kingston website for more information and to find out what you can get fixed.
Throughout the year: Dr Bike
Like most things a bicycle will work better and last longer if you care for it properly. Get yours checked for free by the Dr Bike team. They are able to fix a range of issues including; adjusting brake levers, indexing gears and lubricating key mechanical parts. In just 10 minutes you can have a safer, more efficient cycle. And if a big repair is needed they can give you impartial advice about that too!
Head to the Dr Bike webpage to find where they'll be throughout the year.
Throughout the year: Zero Waste Map
Take a look at the Zero Waste Map to find out where you can get items repaired locally, as well as refill stations to help you cut back on unnecessary packaging.