Celebrating and sharing repairing, fixing and making in our local community!

Read all about our activities below:

Fixing and Mending Parties

DATES FOR 2025 – all 13.00 – 16.00 hrs

(for fuller details of upcoming sessions see our Facebook page)

Sat 4 January – Tooting (United Reform Church, Rookstone Rd, London SW17 9NQ)

Sat 1 March – Tooting (United Reform Church, Rookstone Rd, London SW17 9NQ)

Sat 3 May – Balham (St Mary’s Church, Balham High Rd, London SW12 9BS)

Sat 5 July – Tooting (United Reform Church, Rookstone Rd, London SW17 9NQ)

Sat 6 September – Balham (St Mary’s Church, Balham High Rd, London SW12 9BS)

Sat 1 November – Tooting (United Reform Church, Rookstone Rd, London SW17 9NQ)

Tooting and Balham repair Maps

The map shows local repair businesses in purple and venues for the 2021 Tooting Repairfest in yellow. Click on the location pointers for more info. If you have a business you would like to add to the map email us details at transitiontowntooting@gmail.com

Below is a Sustainability map created by Neighbourhood Network SW12 & SW17 which lists all the places you can reuse, refill, recycle and repair things in the local area.

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Sew it! Show it Picnic and Parade – more HERE

Fixing Fashion – A show with a difference – at Tooting Market in 2022- more HERE

Broken Assembly with Furzedown Primary School – more HERE

Restart Party at Mushkil Aasaan – more HERE

Photography Exhibition at Tooting Market – more HERE

Sewing Box workshop with CARAS Women’s Group – more HERE

Collaborative Protest Coat – Repair for our Future and Fix Your Knitwear – darning workshop at the Woodfield Pavilion’s Big Green Weekend

Our First Ever Repair Week in July 2021 – more HERE

Help us by

• Sharing details with us of any local businesses that do repair, fixing, mending or alterations – this could include working with electrical or electronic goods, furniture, clothes, leather goods, upholstery – and more…
• Letting us know if you have fixing or mending skills which you’d be happy to share with the community through this group – or you know someone who does….
• Telling us if you have something to offer the Share & Repair community – space, materials, tools or other skills like project planning, communications, social media, photography – anything which might help us build our work.

Contact and Follow

• Email enquiries for the Share and Repair project go to the team at transitiontowntooting@gmail.com

• Project tweets and posts will go up on Transition Town Tooting’s Twitter and Instagram

• You can join the Share & Repair Facebook Group for project-specific updates

• Please add your repair to our online repair storybook, Share Your Repair or post using #SYRTooting

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