Book your spot for small electricals repair in Acton

ReActon is offering free small electricals repairs (fully booked) and to learn how to repair clothes at Acton Gardens Community Centre from The Restart Project and Ealing Repair cafe. Book to come to the event at Acton Gardens Community Centre on Saturday 17th January from 11-2pm.

Small electricals slots are fully booked. You can still come along to learn how to repair your clothes. Reserve your place:

The January event will be a day of repair, reuse and recycling at Acton Gardens Community Centre. On Saturday 17 January from 11am-2 pm, we will have lots of reuse, repair and recycling activities, including book swap, learning to mend clothes and repairing small electricals (booking essential). See January repair and recycling event in Acton for full details.

Small Electrical Repairs

The slots are now fully booked. Please look at The Restart Party for other repair events. Chiswick Repair cafe is also having an event on 17 January from 10.30 to 1 pm, see Chiswick Repair Cafe – Repairs.

For more repair options, look at https://londonrepairs.org/ for a local repair company that can help you. They are also looking for recommendations, so please add any companies you have had success with repair.

The Electrical Repairers can help with these items (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 like 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, so take a look at these recommended repairers 
• 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 potentially have carcinogenic insulation (beryllium) inside.
• Power tools or high-wattage electricals.

We live in a throwaway linear economy. It can be difficult to find options for repair locally, and electronics can be needlessly hard to fix. As a result we’re losing repair skills in our communities, throwing more away, and buying more new. It’s building a mountain of e-waste while using ever more of our planet’s limited resources. The Restart Project aims to tackle this electrical waste and the climate emergency by making electronics work for people, for the planet, and for longer.

If you have skills in electrical repair and want to help, volunteer with Ealing’s Electrical Repair Volunteer Team

Learn to repair your clothes

Ealing Repair cafe will be there to teach you how to mend your clothes. They have mending equipment and sewing machines to get your started. They also have scrap fabric for patches and mends.

Ealing Repair café will also have upcycling projects you can learn, such as showing how you can make yarn out of t-shirts. All the family can make your own bracelet or keychain out of t-shirt yarn. Or see a demonstration on how you can make a denim draught excluders out of a pair of jeans and Upcycle t-shirt in draw string bag.

January Repair Event at ReActon

As well as repair, we will have lots of reuse and recycling activities to inspire you.

• Book swap: Take away or drop off books at our ReActon book swap. 
• Donate for reuse and recycling your:
  • Clothes
  • Clothes hangers
  • Small e-waste items (fits into a standard plastic bag)
  • Terracycle recycling
• Upcycle clothes into t-shirt yarn and jeans into denim draught excluders

Find out more about ReActon Hub and events which is run by Ealing Council and West London Waste Authority.

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