Repair Week 2025: Give your items a second life

We’re celebrating Repair Week with a full line-up of local workshops, repair cafes, and skill-sharing sessions to help you save money, reduce waste, and fall back in love with your stuff instead of throwing it away!

Repair Week, taking place from 3 to 9 March, is a London-wide celebration designed to give you the confidence to get repairing. Grab your old items from the back of the cupboard and learn how to breathe new life into them at both regular and one-off sessions happening around the borough. 

We’re busy exploring the best ways to help residents repair, share and reuse items regularly and conveniently. Tell us what you’d like to see in our short circular economy survey. 

Repair Week workshops and classes

The following workshops are free to residents.

Stitching & Sewing Club

Explore the world of mending and upcycling old garments.

• Date: Tuesday 4 March 2025
• Time: 7 to 9pm
• Location: Landmark Arts Centre, Teddington

Book your free place at the Stitching & Sewing Club.

Clothing repair workshops

Hands-on clothes repair tips and support with expert tutors from Makers United. Funded by Richmond Council as part of local Repair Week celebrations.

• Wednesday 5 March - from 10am to 12pm at Marks and Spencer’s Café in Kew Retail Park or Café Milano in Richmond centre
• Friday 7 March - from 9.30 to 11.30am at Harris and Hoole Café, St Margarets
• Saturday 8 March - from 2 to 4pm at Grounded Café, St Margarets

No need to book - just turn up!

Stitch, Mend and Create workshop

Learn to breathe new life into your favourite fabrics. Funded by Richmond Council as part of local Repair Week celebrations.

• Date: Wednesday 5 March 2025
• Time: 12.30 to 2.30pm
• Location: The Museum of Richmond

Book your free place at the Stitch, Mend and Create workshop.

Regular weekly and monthly repair cafes and classes

Join repair and craft sessions at local libraries and community spaces:

• Mend, Make and Craft classes at Richmond Libraries: Sewing, knitting, crochet, and upcycling sessions every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday at local libraries
• Sheddington, Teddington: A community space for quick fixes, making, and mending with sessions every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
• Richmond Makers Labs, Ham: All-inclusive repair workshops for those with an interest in DIY and craft, every Tuesday and Thursday
• The Hampton Repair Shop, Hampton: Fix broken household items with support from friendly volunteers on the first and third Wednesdays of every month. Search ‘thehamptonrepairworkshop’ on Instagram or Facebook for more information
• Twickenham Repair Café: Fix broken household items with support from friendly volunteers on the third Saturday of every month
• Kew the Transition ‘Repair and Share’: Subscribe to the group newsletter for updates on regular ‘Repair and Share’ events throughout the year. Interested in volunteering at one of these sessions? Get in touch with kewthetransition@gmail.com. They’ll also be at this year’s Kew Eco Fair on 22 March, supporting residents to learn about repairing common household items throughout the day

Other local repair, borrow and reuse resources

With everyone’s involvement, we can turn Richmond upon Thames into a zero-waste community and ensure good items stay in circulation for longer.

Have an item in good condition you no longer want? Pass it on to others in the community who need them using local services like: 

• Our new reuse drop-off point at Townmead Road
• The Richmond Furniture Scheme, who can collect furniture from your home
• TRAID, who can collect unwanted textiles, clothes, and shoes from your home
• Richmond Freegle, where you can give items to neighbours for free 

Find out where you can donate, sell, share and repair items in the borough on pages 11 and 12 of our Resident Action Pack. 

Did you know you can borrow over 30 common DIY and repair items at our Library of Things, rather than buying new? First-time borrowers can get 10% off with code TWICKENHAMLOT10.

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