Want to Start A Community Repair Group?

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, subscribe 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 mission which is to support people in repairing their broken items and reducing the number of items going into landfill (Bio)

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Need help fixing?

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...

About Leicester Fixers

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...

Get Involved

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 ...

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