Book to come to the Acton free repair event for electrical, clothes and textile repairs on 8th February at St Mary’s Acton Church hall on The Mount, Acton from 12.30-3 pm. For electrical repairs book your place today for help to fix your electrical item. Ealing Repair cafe will be on hand to teach you how to repair your clothes and textiles, reserve your place here. They will also have workshops on making drawstring t-shirt bags and upcycled draught excluders. Drop in sessions for clothes repair and upcycling, but for Electrical repair booking essential as places limited.
Book your place and come to St Marys Acton Church on The Mount, High Street, Acton, W3 9NW. Ealing Repair Cafe sessions are drop-in so pop along between 12.30 and 3.30 pm for advice and inspiration for repairing and upcycling your clothes and textiles.
Thanks to Ealing Council for bringing you an Acton Electrical Repair and Clothes mending workshop in Acton. Small electrical and electronic items (e-waste) contain precious metals and resources which can be recycled or reused to make new products so we its better for us and the planet if we use them for longer.
Repair your stuff and reduce our waste
Waste is a big problem and causes local and internal problems around the world, as our ActForEaling Cut the Crap exhibition illustrates.
Every time you spend money you’re casting a vote for the kind of world you want. To get things repaired is an easy solution to our mountains of waste.
In the UK, we discard 155,000 tonnes of electricals every year, instead of reusing or recycling them. That creates e-waste which poses a major threat to the environment, wildlife and to human health. The UK ranks second to Norway in the most e-waste produced a 2022 study has found.
For textiles a WRAP 2024 fashion research shows people are putting almost half (49%) of all used textiles in the rubbish bin. On average, each person in the UK throws a shocking 35 items of unwanted textiles straight into general waste every year. The UK bought 1.42 million tonnes of textiles in 2022. In the same year, we generated almost exactly the same amount of clothes we got rid of- 1.45 million tonnes of used textiles.
Ealing Repair Cafe Clothes mending and upcycling
The Ealing Repair cafe team will have all their sewing equipment and sewing machines to help you get mending and upcycling your clothes on 8th February at St Mary’s Acton Church hall on The Mount, Acton from 12.30-3.30 pm. Bring along your clothes and textiles, for advice and guidance from their sewing tutors. You will be able to use their equipment to mend you favorite clothes. Its a drop in session, reserve your place, so pop along when you can between 12.30 and 3.00 pm to St Mary’s in Acton.
Ealing Repair cafe will also have drop-in workshops on upcycling to make:
- Drawstring t-shirt bags: Great way to use up your old cotton and running t-shirts. You can make up to 4 bags out of one t-shirt. Come along with your t-shirt or they will have a supply of their own.
- Upcycled draught excluders: Learn how to make a draught excluder from old jeans. Bring along your own jeans or scrap fabric or Ealing Repair cafe will have some materials for you to use.
Ealing Clothes Repair cafe believe that sewing and mending is great for your mental health and an act of mindfulness. Plus at their sessions there is always friendly chat and social connections. Many who join us at our sessions have told us how great they find the sessions.
One person said about the Ealing Repair session “was so soothing and restorative I want to do it again” Another said coming to a Ealing Mending session is as pleasurable as eating a bar of chocolate!
Ealing Repair café run friendly monthly gatherings around Ealing, giving suggestions and show examples of repairs done by our community.
Repair with the Restart Project
The Restart project will be on site at St Mary’s Church with 30 minute appointment slots to help you fix your small electricals, see below on what they can and can’t fix. The appointments allow for 1 item per appointment.
For Electrical repair booking essential as places limited, so book today.
One person said about the last session in Hanwell “I went on Saturday it’s a fantastic resource in the area. Saved an old lamp for going into landfill.”
Bring along to Acton Electrical Repair workshop for repair the following (electrical only):
- Small Household Electrical Appliances that you can carry including kettle, toaster, blender, alarm clock, lamp, small portable vacuum cleaners or hairdryer
- IT and other Home Equipment such as games console controls, remote controls, keyboard, laptop, speaker or radio
Please note the fixers will NOT repair:
- Phones/tablets as they don’t have the specialist equipment needed. Plus there are many great repair businesses already doing this. Look at these recommended repairers https://londonrepairs.org/
- Laptop screens if no replacement has been brought to the event
- Large battery packs, for example e-bikes, scooters, hoverboards – they hold a large fire risk.
- Microwaves as they are extremely high voltage and could have potentially carcinogenic insulation (beryllium).
- Power tools or high-wattage electricals.
Electrical repair fixers needed
We would love to run more of these events in partnership with Ealing Repair café and Ealing Council, but in the Ealing borough, as yet we haven’t discovered any electrical fixers.
If you are interested in learning electrical repair, please come along on 8th February and observe the fixers in action.
With more repairers we can run more events, so please get in touch with ealingrepaircafe@gmail.com.
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