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Submit A Fixer Story

Submit a story about your repair journey and we will share it for others to read. Here are few questions and prompts to help you: What motivated you to try to repair? What makes you a fixer? Tell us about your experience trying and successfully repairing an item? What did you learn from it? Tell us about a time you try to repair an item with a friend? Tell us the story of someone you admire and inspire you to repair Tell us a story of you and your community supporting one another to repair by organising events or getting together? Is anything else related to repair that you think will benefit people around you? Write an 800 words maximum story or film a video, send it to us  or share it on the Leicester Fixers FB Group , we will then added on this blog. Subscribe to our newsletter to be the first one to hear about new fixer stories
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Get Involved as A Researcher/Writer

If you are a researcher, your research interest is about Repair and your research is set in Leicestershire or you are based in one of Leicestershire Universities: Join our Leicester Fixers Facebook Group and share your  reference and abstract of your paper or thesis so we can include your research on this blog.  Subscribe to our newsletters and you will be the first to know about new research about repair in Leicestershire If you are planning some research about repair and would like access to participants, join one of the  Leicestershire community repair groups on FB . 
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How Can Leicester Fixers Help?

Leicester Fixers have through the years develop and delivered various projects to support individuals, organisations and community groups with the repair. Read Bio for More. Depending on who you are and what you are looking for, Leicester Fixers can support you! Click Below to the Description that Best Resemble you to find the type of support we can provide I am an Individual I am a Community I am a Community Repair Group I am a Repair Shop   I am a Researcher/Writer  I am a Journalist/Blogger/Podcaster
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Leicester Fixers Repair Shop

 Coming Soon Subscribe to our newsletter to be the first to know about the launch of the shop Do you want to get involved in the shop, click here
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Fill The Form to Join Leicester Fixers Directory

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Articles featuring Leicester Fixers

Here are a few articles and blog posts wrote by supporters featuring Leicester Fixers: Dr Marie Lefebvre (2017) Why Help is the Best Glue, Thoughtful (FIX Issue) https://www.thisisthoughtful.com/3003/help-glue Dr Marie Lefebvre (2021) Leicester Fixers, Marle's Feed Blog. Url: https://marlefeed.blogspot.com/2021/08/leicester-fixers.html Open Repair Alliance (2017) Looking Back at the Last International Repair Day, openrepairalliance.org. url: https://openrepair.org/author/lauren/ Restart Project (2016)  Restart Party Host profile: Meet Marie, therestarproject.org.uk.  Url:  https://therestartproject.org/restarters/restart-party-hosts/restart-party-host-profile-meet-marie/ If you've written an article featuring Leicester Fixers, share it on Leicester Fixers FB Group so we can added to the blog. If you would like to be the first to know about new articles written about Leicester Fixers, subscribe to our newsletter
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Delivering a Community Repair Outreach Programme

Leicester Fixers delivered the Leicestershire Community Repair Outreach Programme main aim was to support 6 community repair groups in delivering repair events across Leicestershire. We supported the creation of Coalville, Hinckley, Market Harborough, Lutterworth and Rutland Fixers as well as supported Transition Loughborough Fixers and Melton Space organisation of repair event. The project was funded through Shire Environmental Grants If you would like to read an edited version of our final report to our funders with the activities we've delivered, the organisation we've got in touch with as well as the actual outcomes, subscribe to our newsletter and indicate that you want to get more information about the Leicestershire Outreach Programme. If you would like to deliver a community outreach programme, subscribe to our newsletter and let us know . We will contact you via email to arrange an appointment, discuss further your goals and share with you resources.
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