Hinckley Library

Leicestershire, United Kingdom

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Volunteers at a Restart Party fixing devices, cropped on hands

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This is an informal event for spreading our repair knowledge and helping to reduce waste.

We are a group of individual volunteers who like to share our skills to work with you and help you repair your broken household items so that they don’t end up in landfill and add to the e-waste mountain.

Bring a portable household item and we will see if it can be fixed on the day and advise you if it cannot.

We can look at items such as: portable electrical items, tools (including sharpening), clothes and toys.

Unfortunately, due to time constraints, we cannot help with PCs, laptops, and other computing equipment.

Suggested donations begin at £5 per item to help us with things like the cost of event insurance.

Pre event questions welcome: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hinckleyfixers

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This is an informal event for spreading our repair knowledge and helping to reduce waste.

We are a group of individual volunteers who like to share our skills to work with you and help you repair your broken household items so that they don’t end up in landfill and add to the e-waste mountain.

Bring a portable household item and we will see if it can be fixed on the day and advise you if it cannot.

We can look at items such as: portable electrical items, tools (including sharpening), clothes and toys.

Unfortunately, due to time constraints, we cannot help with PCs, laptops, and other computing equipment.

Suggested donations begin at £5 per item to help us with things like the cost of event insurance.

Pre event questions welcome: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hinckleyfixers

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Lancaster Road, Hinckley LE10 0AW, UK

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Hinckley Fixers

A growing intersectional repair community. 

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Restart Party Do’s and Don’ts

DO

  • Check if your device is still within warranty, you may be eligible for a free repair, replacement or a refund. (Which? helps in the UK).
  • Take responsibility for your device and your data. Our volunteers are here to help you learn to fix your gadget, not to provide a free repair service. Get involved!
  • Backup your data. We can’t be responsible for your cat pics, so please back up your device before you come. (Of course you already do this once a month, right?)
  • Charge up your device and bring all leads.
  • Get in touch with organisers if you have any questions about whether a fix is possible.

DON’T

  • Assume repairs will be successful. We help fix over half of devices at our events. Even if your repair is unsuccessful, you will learn about your device and why it failed.
  • Expect us to have spare parts. But we can help you source them. Often people visit twice: first we’ll help diagnose the fault, then you source the spare part, and on your return we’ll help you do a replacement.
  • Attempt a mobile screen repair just to save money. DIY mobile screen repair is a learning opportunity first and foremost. Please see our advice page first.
  • Bring a microwave.