Queen’s Crescent Fixing Factory

London, United Kingdom

Hosted by Group avatarCamden Fixing Factory

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Volunteers at a Restart Party fixing devices, cropped on hands

Description

As part of international Repair Day 2022 we’re doing some al-fesco fixing to coincide with the regular Saturday market

This event is specifically intended for local people in the Gospel Oak/West Kentish Town area to attend on foot – however all are welcome!

We have a growing workshop of tools and equipment, and also the capacity to hold onto and keep working on items that might need more time/thought/parts

If it’s wet we have a small area inside where we can repair, but this will reduce our capacity

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179 Queen's Crescent, London, UK

About the group

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Camden Fixing Factory

We're on a mission to restore repair to the heart of our communities


We plan to turn a derelict high street shop unit into a social community hub for repair, maintenance and restoration - we'll have well equipped electronics benches, and a mission to get local hands fixing. Working with existing repair businesses in the area, we'll be drawing together and sharing skills and developing training for a new generation of fixers


We'll test out some of the myths around fixing, possibly in a Hackathon format (so please make suggestions for these) - with the goal of busting some of them myths wide open


But we only have until March 2023 to demonstrate this can work to our funders - if you enjoy this kind of a challenge, love working with communities, and would like to part of an exciting new project then let me know as there'll be a range of volunteering opportunities


We'll be planning a few pop up events and stands at various locations around the borough of Camden over this Summer and Autumn - as well as setting up our bricks and mortar home (once we find a suitable venue)


We also have a sister project: Fixing Factory Brent - which you may already have heard of - and specialises in laptop repair at Abbey Road recycling centre. The Fixing Factory projects involves a range of partners with The Restart Project leading in Brent and Possible (the climate action charity I work for) leading in Camden

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