The Restart Project Blog

Yesterday, we took repair into Parliament.

An important part of our work in London is supporting and building the network of repair groups.

Last year, we spent a week examining every electronic and electrical device brought into a household reuse and recycling centre in West London.

Following the news can make it feel like people are more divided than ever.

This post is by Fiona Dear, originally posted on the Green Alliance blog.

Last year, we teamed up with some of our partners in the Community Repair Network to support the establishment of repair initiatives in universities across the UK.

Recently, our co-founder Ugo gave a TEDx Talk on our journey through repair, and the importance of repair communities in raising awareness, championing repair, documenting repair barriers, and pushing for system change.

The last few years have been really exciting for the Right to Repair in many countries outside the UK.

Heard murmurings about the recent EU legislation but don’t know what it means?

2023 was huge for The Restart Project and for repair in general.

For Repair Day 2023, we wanted Repair for Everyone and that meant organising a celebration that was bigger than it’s ever been before.

We’re delighted to launch our new Repair and Reuse Declaration to celebrate Repair Day, with a whopping 125 (and counting) groups signed up.

Why it’s important and what others are doing Repair and reuse are affordable and easy ways to end frustration with in-built obsolescence.

Repair Day is on October 21st and we want Repair for Everyone.

If you’ve been following any of our communications over the last 18 months (or those of our project partner Possible) you’ll know that we’ve been testing permanent repair in two Fixing Factories with support from the The National Lottery Community Fund.

What is Fixfest UK and why should you come?

Every repair tells a story.

It’s often said that repair skills are more common among older generations.

How many times have you brought something to a recycling centre, and ended up spotting something else in a skip that looks reusable?

Sewing machines are a common sight at Restart Parties, Repair Cafés and other repair events.

Right to Repair continued to be a key focus for our advocacy work in 2022.

As 2022 comes to a close and the holiday season is fast approaching, we want to celebrate the past year in a festive way.

Our not-so-new Co-Director, Fiona Dear, reflects on an Autumn of bringing the repair movement together.

It’s almost time for Fixfest 2022!

Repair will be Everywhere on October 15th This year for the sixth annual Repair Day, we want to show the world that you can find Repair Everywhere.

We can’t believe it either but today marks the 10 year anniversary of the first Restart Party!

It’s been a while since we updated you on the work that we’ve been doing on the Repair Directory.

After months of fundraising, recruiting and planning, we’re delighted to have launched our first Fixing Factory in the Abbey Road Reuse and Recycling Centre, Brent, on Saturday 23rd April.

Tell us a little about yourself.

We’re really excited to announce a new project, made possible thanks to National Lottery funding, in partnership with climate charity Possible, Ready Tech Go, West London Waste Authority, and Mer IT.

Tell us a little about yourself.

As 2021 draws to a close, it’s time to celebrate what we’ve accomplished together this year.

Nearly ten years ago, we held our first Restart Party in a London pub.

We’re happy to announce our new sponsorship by eSpares, an online parts store based in Birmingham.

This post is cross-posted from the European Right to Repair campaign.

This post is was originally published on Inside Track, the Green Alliance policy blog.

Over the summer we announced that one of our founder-Co-Directors was moving on from the role for personal reasons.

ITV Tonight covered the Right to Repair, with footage and interviews from Cambridgeshire Repair Cafes and The Restart Project.

We’re celebrating the fifth edition of International Repair Day with a number of activities in the lead up here in London and online.

Next year, we’ll be celebrating 10 years of The Restart Project.

This week we’ve launched “BattCat”, our latest interactive, people-powered investigation into why devices fail.

It’s hard to characterise this year’s reading list – there is probably more “nature” in this list than in previous years.

Earlier this year, when schools closed again and we went into lockdown, communities and volunteers across the country stepped up to help their neighbours without computers.

This post is by Libby Peake, head of resource policy at Green Alliance, and Ugo Vallauri, policy lead at The Restart Project.

This post was updated on Sept 7 2021 to include the video of our webinar on this topic.

Today we’re launching “TabiCat”, a fun opportunity to collaboratively analyse data on over 900 tablets brought to repair events around the world.

Tell us a little about yourself.

Today we launch a new petition to the UK government, BEIS and Defra ministers calling for real Right to Repair rules.

Printers can be frustrating – easy to break and hard to fix.

Recently the UK government announced that from this summer we will have a “new legal right to repair” washing machines, dishwashers, fridges and TVs – as “manufacturers will be legally obliged to make spare parts for products available to consumers for the