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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

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 . 

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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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

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.

At Leicester Fixers Repair Events, we routinely check electrical appliances for safety prior and after they are being repaired by running Portable Appliance Testing (PAT) commonly called a PAT testing.  We run PAT training for new groups in Leicester and Leicestershire looking to start their own community groups and who wants to organise repair events.  By learning the process of checking electrical items for safety, community repair groups can best protect their volunteers and participants at their repair events. If you would like to be the first to know about our next PAT training, subscribe to our newsletter now.

Leicester Fixers projects through the year 2021 Workshop Reuse & Repair Creating Space to nurture community - an online session as part of the Ways to Wellbeing Programme Communication Website Launch Instagram Launch 2020 Presentation Leicester Secular Society Presentation Linkoping University Presentation 2018 - 2019 Programme Leicestershire Community Repair  Outreach Programme  with  Restart Parties  across Leicestershire Training & Workshops PAT Testing Training To Fix or Nor to Fix - Leicester People's University Communication Launch of Leicestershire Fixers News Presentation FixFest 2019 in Berlin  Stall CreateACon 2019 2015 - 2018  Events Restart Parties  in Leicester Stall CreateACon 2018 Riverside Festival 2015-2018 Presentation by Leicester Fixers FixFest 2018 in Manchester  International Repair Day 2018 in Parits FixFest 2017 in London Communication Leicester Fixers Facebook Page and Twitter Launch now called Leicestershire Fixer...

Leicester Fixers is a growing community of people part of Leicestershire Community Repair Groups As of April 2021, Leicester Fixers have: 797 Facebook followers and 598 Twitter Followers on Leicestershire Fixers News where we update about our activities 483 Facebook Group Members 56 Instagram Followers 57 Newsletter Subscribers Find out more about the Leicestershire Community Repair Groups to get a grasp of how big and growing our community is.

Leicester Fixers featured over the years several times on BBC Radio Leicester on the Ben Jackson Morning Show - Here is a little write up of one show aftermath reflecting on the experience -  here Leicester Fixers also featured on the Restart Radio in November 2016.  You can have a listen here If you would like to feature us on your podcasts or radio show, contact us directly .

Do you want to make Leicester Fixers a sustainable feature of Leicester? Do you want to join a community of people interested in acquiring repair skills, reducing the amount of waste going into landfills and building communities? If yes to all the above questions, Subscribe to our newsletters and say that you want to get involved.  You will receive an email in the following week with a small survey to fill and an appointment so you can have a chat with one of our volunteer coordinators about your interests, skills and what you would like to achieve What you can help with now There are few activities you can already engage with such as: Writing a Fixer Story Adding details of repair shops or communities to  Leicester Fixers Directory J oining an upcoming event as a participant or volunteer S upporting the Right To Repair Campaign by learning more Submitting references about your research about repair  and any other articles or podcasts  about Leicester Fixers F ind ...

Do you need Help Fixing a Broken Item? Here are few steps you can take Join your local community repair discussion groups and ask directly on the forum for some suggestions on how to repair the items as well as recommendation for repairers in your area. If you live in Leicester, you can join Leicester Fixers Facebook Group If you live in Leicestershire, there are numerous groups that can support you with repair, find out about them here You can join Restarters.net and ask for suggestions on their forum Have a browse through the internet for discussion forum for suggestions and advices For Electronic items, Ifixit is a great resources as well as Youtube If you know of more resources, please contact us or comment with your suggestions of discussion forum people can join so we can added to our directory specialised in repair Pay for professional services For more repair shops in the high street, we need to support repair businesses and this by purchasing their services. Instead of buyi...

Do you want to start a community repair group? Are you based in Leicester, Leicestershire or beyond? Are you looking for some support and suggestions on how to proceed from an existing group like Leicester Fixers? If yes to all the above questions, s ubscribe to our newsletter indicating that you want to start a community repair group so we can contact you and share with you our support package for community groups based in Leicester and Leicestershire and arrange an appointment for an initial conversation to understand your vision and what you are hoping to achieve. You can also join our Facebook Group to ask questions. Through the Leicestershire Community Repair Outreach Programme , Leicester Fixers supported 6 communities in their journey towards community repair by sharing with them information, resources, best practices, tools, volunteers and an insurance cover.  By providing support to groups across the region in starting community repair groups, we are meeting our main miss...

Want to organise a repair event? A Festival or a Repair Event? For a Festival Leicester Fixers can Share the Steps by Steps Project Plan for organising the Green Festival of Making and Mending that you can replicate! Have an hour discussion to give you an overview of the key learnings If you are in Leicestershire Provide Volunteer Support Lease Equipments such as a PAT tester and tools Share information about Insurance requirements and more For a Restart Party or Repair Cafés Leicester Fixers can Share the Step by Step Project Plan and necessary documentation for managing volunteers and health and safety. All this for the organisation of a Repair Café or Restart Party Have an hour discussion with your group to give an overview of our key learnings Share information about Insurance requirements and more If you are in Leicestershire, Leicester Fixers Provide Volunteer Support Lease Equipment such as a PAT tester and tools If interested in some of the support we offer: subscribe to our ne...

Research about Repair in Leicestershire Across the world, researchers are supporting the cause of repair through applied research. Find below the literature of researchers based in Leicestershire participating in the ongoing discussion about the repair. References Lilley, Debra; Bailey, Vanessa; Charnley, Fiona (2013): Design for sustainable behaviour: a quick fix for slower consumption?. Loughborough University. Conference contribution. https://hdl.handle.net/2134/12514   Lefebvre, Marie; Lofthouse, Vicky; Wilson, Garrath (2018): Towards a circular economy: exploring factors to repair broken electrical and electronics products by users with pro-environmental inclination. Loughborough University. Conference contribution. https://hdl.handle.net/2134/34474   Lefebvre, Marie (2019): To repair or not to repair: an investigation of the factors influencing prosumer repair propensity. Loughborough University. Thesis. https://doi.org/10.26174/thesis.lboro.11365325.v1   Click Here...

The Right to Repair Campaign was launched in September 2019 and invite people across Europe to Stand Up for the Right to Repair. Who are the members of the Right To Repair Campaign? In more than 16 European countries, campaign members made up of community repair groups, environmental activists s ocial economy actors, self-repair advocates and any citizen who would like to obtain their right to repair are active around the cause of repair and this in  In more than 16 European countries.  What do they want from policy makers ? Good Design - Products should be design to perform, last and be repaired whenever needed. Fair Access - Repair should be accessible, affordable and mainstream Informed consumers - Citizens should know if their products  are built to be repaired or destined to be disposable when breaking. About the network The Right To Repair network   is made of organisations based in several European countries and they participate in shaping the campaign, formi...

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If you'd like to follow Leicester Fixers online here's where you can find us: Leicester Fixers on Facebook We have a Facebook group where you can ask for suggestions and recommendations to fix items and share news about repair and mending. Leicester Fixers on Instagram We have an Instagram Page sharing engaging images from our events Leicester Fixers on Restarters.net We use Restarters.net to log all the items we repaired, engage in conversation with community repair groups across the UK about repair. Anyone can join Restarters.net and decide to follow various community repair groups and join them as volunteers, hosts or supporters. Sign Up to Restarters.net and find out more. More Leicestershire Fixers News share local news about repair both on Facebook and Twitter including news from Leicester Fixers. Find out about the social media account of your local Leicestershire Community Repair Groups here .

There are several community repair groups in Leicestershire. Some emerge through Leicestershire Community Repair Outreach Programme . Others existed prior to the programme. They have different levels of activity and capacity. In all they have the main elements in common: they are interested in supporting people to repair their broken items and they are always looking for more people to support their projects. Find out more about the ones local to you through Leicestershire Fixers News Group section . In Alphabetical Order Coalville Fixers Hinckley Fixers Leicester Fixers Transition Loughborough Fixers Lutterworth Fixers Market Harborough Fixers Melton Space If you know about a new group in Leicestershire organising community repair events, please add their details to Leicester Fixers directory so we can add them. Subscribe to our newsletter to be the first to know about new community groups added to our directory.

Leicester Fixers endeavours to meet once a term for repair events, campaigns or training. The upcoming key dates for Leicester Fixers activities for the year 2021-2022 are coming soon. If you would like to be the first to know about our upcoming events, subscribe to our newsletter. Find out to get involved here For events in the county, check the Leicestershire Community Repair Groups

Coming Soon Leicester Fixers Directory brings together the community organisations, repair shops and independent repairers supporting the right to repair and citizen to reduce their carbon footprint. Soon you will be able to Click on a Keyword  for a listing of organisations, repair shops and independent repairers that can support you in your journey towards repair and carbon footprint reduction: Fill form and add details of community repair groups and repair shops in Leicester and Leicestershire in our directory. Subscribe to our newsletter to be the first to know about the new add-on to our directory

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Videos Slideshows with Music of our past events  for you to watch and share. There are now more than 20 of them. Articles A list of articles featuring Leicester Fixers and repair in Leicester, Leicestershire Podcasts and Radio Interviews A list of the radio interviews and podcasts Leicester Fixers have been on. Speaking Inquiries Leicester Fixers members are always happy to speak to groups about their projects. If you would like to invite Leicester Fixers to speak in exchange for a contribution so we can continue our valuable work, drop us an email . About Leicester Fixers Hello. We are Leicester Fixers. For the last 7 years, we have been inspiring people to repair the broken and reduce the number of items going into landfills and teaching them skills to repair and create community repair groups. Here's our full bio . Even More Inspiring Stories

Elsewhere on the Web Leicester Fixers created Leicestershire Fixers News,  a facebook page updating about repair activities across Leicestershire,  in 2019 as a result of the Leicestershire Community Repair Outreach Programme . Look up Leicester Fixers on Google ( videos ) Leicester Fixers on podcasts About Leicester Fixers Hello. We are Leicester Fixers. We are a growing  community of people , we do projects supporting people in Leicester, Leicestershire and beyond to repair their broken items and reduce the number of items going into landfills. For almost ten years, Leicester Fixers strive to inspire people to repair and reuse their items and teach them new skills. To tell our success stories predominantly using Facebook. One day, we thought it would be nice to have a central place to put all the information about Leicester Fixers and their journey. One day, if we meet, we hope you'll share with us your favourite posts about Leicester Fixers. Even better, we would lik...