BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260329T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261025T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260609T030609Z UID:jJ68yg DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260711T103000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260711T163000 CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20260408T161928 DESCRIPTION: Join us on the 11th of July for Fixfest London! 💚🔨 \n\n What is Fixfest London? \n\n Some of you may have joined us at Fixfest 202 5- our global gathering for fixers\, activists\, policymakers\, educators and more from all over the world. \n\n This mini-edition of Fixfest is al l about our London community - a chance for repair groups and volunteers a cross the capital to connect\, learn and share ideas. Everyone is welcome: Fixers\, hosts\, data collectors\, organisers\, tea-makers\, cake bakers and more! \n\n 📍It’s at St Lukes Community Centre in Islington\, fol lowed by an evening social @ Shoreditch Park (6pm onwards). Due to limited space\, you’ll need a ticket to attend the daytime event. \n\n Our com munity is doing amazing work. We have our own unique ways of running event s and supporting our local communities. There's so much to be proud of. \ n\n \nSo what’s the vision? \n\n We’d love for everyone to leave Fix fest feeling: \n\n \n Inspired and empowered to try something new and over come challenges \n Connected to the London community and the wider repair movement \n \n\n We’re all united by a shared vision- to help people rep air\, to fix things and to challenge the throwaway economy. How can we wor k together to build on our success and impact? \n\n \nCheck out our progr amme preview! \n\n A big thank you to everyone who recently proposed topi cs through our form. Your ideas have helped shape the programme and ensure it’s as useful as possible for volunteers and groups. \n\n | | | |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Time | Session | More detail |\n| 10:30 | Arrival & amp\; networking | Tea and coffee |\n| 11:00 | Welcome &\; housekeepi ng | |\n| 11:05 | Setting the scene: community repair in London | |\n| 1 1:15 | Right to Repair: talk and Q&\;A | From collecting repair data to campaigning for the Right to Repair\, how does The Restart Project and ou r allies create change and what can London groups do to power that work? |\n| 11:45 | Co-creation session for International Repair Day | How could your group get involved? |\n| 12:30 | Lunch &\; networking | Optional jewellery upcycling workshop during lunch Potential for more workshops! |\n| 13:30 | Lightning talks to inspire us | Volunteers and repair groups share achievements\, practical skills/tips\, ways of doing things and are as of interest. Up to 5 minutes each. Talks so far: Maker Ethos with Pr actice Based Learning (Kiran Patel\, UEL IT Tech Fixers) The Power of Fix ing: From Waste to Wellbeing (Chris Heaton\, Forest Fixers) |\n| 14:00 | W orkshops: how can we get more people repairing? | Key topics: Fixing f or vs. fixing with Every conversation is a critical conversation: how do we spark people's interest in volunteering? Engaging the next generation in repair Involving lower income communities &\; different ethnic grou ps Upskilling our volunteers beyond shadowing How can we all work togeth er to help set up new groups? |\n| 15:00 | Networking break | |\n| 15:20 | Workshops: the practicalities of organising successful repair events | Key topics: Sustainable ways of funding our repair events Securing venu es successfully Sourcing &\; storing tools How can we increase the re pair success rate PAT testing: what are we currently doing &\; are we keeping records? Collecting &\; making the most of repair data |\n| 16 :20 | Final reflections &\; next steps | End at 16:30 |\n| 18:00 | S ummer social for the London community | This will take place at Shoreditc h Park. Open to all volunteers. No tickets required! We’ll provide sn acks\, beers and soft drinks. Feel free to bring picnic mats\, games and a nything else you’d like to eat/drink. We will share a specific pin for the location and a wet weather plan closer to the event. |\n \nSet up fo r the workshops: There will be 6 round tables with 10 people on each. Work shops covering specific topics will take place on each table. We will rota te around 3 times\, giving you the opportunity to contribute to 3 differen t discussions\, before we feed back as a whole. Flipchart paper will be av ailable for each table and we will use what’s written to create and shar e some notes following the event. \n\n Please note: this programme previe w is intended to give a flavour of what to expect. We may make some minor changes in the lead up to the event and share a final programme before. \ n\n If you’d like to get in touch with any questions or suggestions for the programme\, please email london@therestartproject.org. \n\n We would l ike to thank our funder\, City Bridge Foundation\, for making Fixfest Lond on possible. \n LAST-MODIFIED:20260604T170415 LOCATION:London ORGANIZER:mailto:london@therestartproject.org SUMMARY:Fixfest London 2026 URL;VALUE=URI:https://ti.to/the-restart-project/fixfest-london-2026 URL;VALUE=URI:https://ti.to/the-restart-project/fixfest-london-2026 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR