Fixfest UK 2023 is the biggest gathering of community repair in the UK. Let’s connect, share, celebrate and strengthen our fantastic movement in Cardiff on Saturday 30 September 2023.
Repair a laptop, fix the system.
The Restart Project helps people learn how to repair their broken electronics, and rethink how they consume them in the first place.
Learn more about usRepair events
You’re invited to a Restart Party!
Participate in a free community repair event, where volunteer fixers will help you learn how to repair your broken or slow devices - and tackle the growing mountain of e-waste.
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Toscana, Italy
Restart Party – ZeroWaste
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Sachsen, Germany
offizielles Reparaturcafé Oktober
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Durham, United Kingdom
Chester-le-Street Library
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Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
Just Sew
Latest News
Read more newsKeep up to date with our latest news from community repair and the right to repair.
We won the European Union Prize for Citizen Science—Digital Communities Award!
We’re delighted to have been awarded the European Union Prize for Citizen Science—Digital Communities Award for our work with repair data and policy campaigning.
Restart Radio
Listen to all episodesWe produce a regular podcast about rescuing and repairing the electronics we use everyday.
Listen here, or tune in live the second Tuesday of the month at 5pm on London’s Resonance FM.
Restart Project Ep. 90: Meet TV's Retro Electro Workshop 'super fixers', Rob Howard and Matt Marchant
Repair Data
Together with our growing network, we collect and share data on the things we repair, and use it to help us demand better, more sustainable products.
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devices fixed
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hours volunteered
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kg waste prevented
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kg CO2 prevented
Fixometer
Our web app allows members of the repair community to log their fixes and to learn about the social and environmental impact of their work.
Our insights
We collect data on repair from our community events and we use the data to provide insights into the devices we see.
Education
We're working with young people to spark awareness about the raw materials inside our electronics and their environmental impacts.
Materials matter
Through hands-on activity, we reveal hidden environmental impacts of smartphones.
Our hands-on enrichment programme helps secondary schools create a new generation of fixers.
Community
Restart is a people-powered project. Here's what we're up to:
Restarters
We call volunteers who share their repair skills Restarters.
Restart Party Host Profile: Meet Sophia
Sophia is an engineer cleaning up data centres for work, and in spare time, a Restart Party host, picker of fruit, reader, singer, and patriarchy smasher.
Restarter Profile: Meet Junaid
Junaid is a pro repairer at his store Sara’s Fix in Charing Cross. He enjoys sharing his skills at community events. He’s a keen motorcyclist. And he started repairing toys as a child.