Join Fix It Friday event: Free Repair in Ealing

Come to Ealing Broadway shopping centre for Fix It Friday on Friday 7 March from 3pm until 6 pm. Fix it Friday is a free community event focused on repair in Ealing and sustainability for London Repair week.

Why Repair?

We live in a world where discarding broken items has become second nature. Research conducted by Imperial College London in 2024, and published by ReLondon, reveals a startling reality: Londoners threw away £1.9 billion worth of repairable items in 2023. That’s an average of over £250 worth of items per adult!

Repairing isn’t just about saving money, it’s also about reducing waste and combating climate change. By repairing your belongings instead of replacing them, you’re helping to cut down on the 1.9 billion tonnes of waste generated globally each year.

London Repair Week is a celebration of repair where you are invited to gain repair skills, fall back in love with your stuff. This will help save some money and the planet while you’re at it! With numerous workshops happening around London including this brilliant repair event in Ealing. The website has tips and tricks to help you repair your stuff.

Fix it Friday Activities

• Mend Your Clothes with Traid – Bring an clothing item in need of repair and their sewing tutors will teach you how to mend it.
• Dr Bike Free Bike Services & Minor Repairs – Get a free bike check and minor repairs with Let’s Ride Southall.
• Team Repair – Learn about repair kits designed to teach kids how to fix everyday items.

This event is free and open to all. No booking required, simply bring your items and take part.

Fix it Friday is presented by Traid in partnership with the London Borough of Ealing.

Mending your clothes

Traid sewing tutors will teach and guide you on how to mend your clothes. Bring along one item of clothing to mend and they will have the basic sewing equipment and scrap fabric to get you started.

Traid workshops are suitable for those with no previous skills and have mend samples to inspire you to repair your clothes, as well as materials to use and practice on. No booking required – all walk-ins welcome! Please note that workshop spaces are available on a first come, first served basis, there might be a short wait if the workshop space becomes busy.

Traid also offers a free doorstep collection of clothes around Ealing and also has a collection point in Ealing Broadway, opposite the Library of things, in Saviours Walk. They love to receive clean, good quality clothes so that they can resell them in their charity shops. The money raised goes towards their global projects improving the fashion industry, projects from fields to factories and schools, which include these projects.

For further details Traid email info@traid.org.uk.

Bike servicing and Minor Repairs

Professional mechanics from Let’s Ride Southall will check your bike to make sure it’s roadworthy, and make small adjustments and repairs if necessary, such as tuning your gears, adjusting your brakes or pumping your tyres. They will also be able to advise and refer you to a bike shop for anything more serious that cannot be fixed there and then.

• Haven Green, 10am to 1pm, 1st Saturday: 1 March
• Acton Market, 2pm to 5pm, 1st Saturday: 1 March
• West Ealing Farmers Market, Uxbridge Road, 9am to midday, 2nd Saturday: 8 March
• Hanwell Clock Tower, 1pm to 4pm, 2nd Saturday: 8 March

Dr Bike in Southall runs in both halves of Southall on the last Saturday of each month as below.

• 10am to 1pm outside Manor House Grounds, The Green, Southall, UB2 4BJ
• 2pm to 5pm Southall Market, Southall Square, High Street, Southall UB1 3DG

Please email mechanics@accteams.uk to pre-book or call 07949877511 with any enquiries. 

Team Repair

Team Repair is an award-winning company founded by a team of Design Engineers from Imperial College London. They are on a mission to increase STEM uptake and tackle the e-waste crisis, using the magic of repair. They will bring their children’s repair kits along to encourage repair in Ealing starting them young.

Kids love taking broken things apart and seeing how they work. We created Team Repair to share these experiences and show kids how fun science, tech, and engineering can be. They will be at Fix it Friday with their repair kits which are designed to teach kids how to fix everyday items.

Team Repair offer school repair kits and also at home repair kits. These kits introduce stem activities to children and the possibility of repairing items by themselves. Their school 12 week programme will take students from first-time fixers to tech wizards, perfect for completion across a school term. This covers 4 different gadget repairs across 12 sessions. To find out more go to Team Repair.

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