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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

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...