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:20260810T125403Z 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 (5pm 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! \n\n A big thank you to everyone who recently proposed topics throu gh 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 &\; ne tworking | Tea and coffee |\n| 11:00 | Welcome &\; housekeeping | |\ n| 11:05 | Setting the scene: community repair in London | Speaker: Josie Ball\, London Network Lead |\n| 11:15 | Right to Repair Talk | From coll ecting repair data to campaigning for the Right to Repair\, how does The R estart Project and our allies create change and what can London groups do to power that work? Speakers: Fiona Dear (Co-Director\, UK Strategy and Operations)\, Inés Alberico (Right to Repair Campaign Manager) &\; Ugo Vallauri (Co-Director\, International Strategy) |\n| 11:30 | Q&\;A | An opportunity to ask The Restart Project questions! |\n| 11:45 | Co-creat ion session for International Repair Day | Brainstorm ideas for a BIG Lon don event\, involving repair groups. Consider how you could use the day and campaign period to your advantage- how could you give your group\, act ivities and promotions a boost and how could Restart help you make your pl ans happen. |\n| 12:30 | Lunch &\; networking | Optional jewellery re pair and upcycling workshop during lunch. Delivered by the talented Tere B eltran\, a volunteer fixer. Potential to include more workshops in the pr ogramme! Please get in touch if you’re interested. |\n| 13:30 | Lightni ng talks to inspire us | Volunteers and repair groups share achievements\ , practical skills/tips\, ways of doing things and areas of interest. Up t o 5 minutes each. Talks so far: Maker Ethos with Practice Based Learnin g (Kiran Patel\, UEL IT Tech Fixers) The Power of Fixing: From Waste to W ellbeing (Chris Heaton\, Forest Fixers) Themed Repair Events (Dave Lukes\ , Bell House Repair Hub) Why We Need More Female Fixers (Josephine Cumbo \, St Albans District Fixers) |\n| 14:00 | Workshops: how can we get more people repairing? | Key topics: Upskilling people in repair (volunteers and visitors)\, including: Fixing for vs. fixing with: where does your gr oup sit on a scale\, with these on either end? How do we upskill our fixer s\, beyond shadowing? Volunteer recruitment\, including: Every conversat ion is a critical conversation: how can we spark people’s interest in vo lunteering? Engaging the next generation in repair Involving lower inco me communities &\; different ethnic groups How can we create mutually beneficial relationships: supporting\, promoting and collaborating with ot her local initiatives How can we all work together to help set up new gro ups? |\n| 15:00 | Networking break | More tea and coffee! |\n| 15:20 | Wo rkshops: the practicalities of organising successful repair events | Key topics: Sustainable ways of funding our repair events Securing venues su ccessfully Sourcing &\; storing tools How can we increase the repair success rate PAT testing: what are we currently doing &\; are we keepi ng records? Collecting &\; making the most of repair data |\n| 16:20 | Final reflections &\; next steps | End at 16:30 |\n| 17:00 | Summer social for the London community | This will take place at Shoreditch Par k. Pin to the exact location: https://maps.app.goo.gl/mnLRxjaYn1HuCqXx7?g _st=ic Open to all volunteers. No tickets required! We’ll provide sna cks\, beers and soft drinks. Feel free to bring picnic mats\, games and an ything else you’d like to eat/drink. In case of wet weather\, we have booked a pub nearby. If needed\, we will share the name and location on th e day. |\n \nSet up for the workshops: There will be 6 round tables with 10 people maximum on each. Workshops covering specific topics will take pl ace on each table. We will rotate around 3 times\, giving you the opportun ity to contribute to 3 different discussions\, before we feed back as a wh ole. Flipchart will be available for each table and we will use what’s w ritten to create and share some notes following the event. \n\n Please no te: We may make some minor changes in the lead up to the event. Any amendm ents or additions will appear in live time on this page. \n\n If you’d l ike to get in touch with any questions or suggestions for the programme\, please email london@therestartproject.org. \n\n We would like to thank our funder\, City Bridge Foundation\, for making Fixfest London possible. \n LAST-MODIFIED:20260710T141339 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