We ran the UK’s first trial voucher scheme for electrical repairs to support high street repair shops, reduce waste and save households money.
Repair a laptop, fix the system.
The Restart Project helps people learn how to repair their broken electronics, and rethink how they consume them in the first place.
Learn more about usRepair events
You’re invited to a Restart Party!
Participate in a free community repair event, where volunteer fixers will help you learn how to repair your broken or slow devices - and tackle the growing mountain of e-waste.
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Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Cambridge Museum of Technology
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North Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
The Victoria Centre
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Hampshire (inc. Ports and Soton), United Kingdom
Repair Cafe Yateley
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Berkshire, United Kingdom
Wokingham
Latest News
Keep up to date with our latest news from community repair and the right to repair.
What are the barriers facing repair businesses?
Independent repair businesses sit at the heart of the repair economy but face a range of challenges. Here’s what we learned in North London.
1 in 5 MPs now support our Repair & Reuse Declaration
With broad public support and growing parliamentary backing, where is the government’s long-awaited Circular Economy Growth Plan?
Our Campaigns
Community
Restart is a people-powered project. Together with our growing network, we run community repair events around the world and use the stories we collect to help demand better, more sustainable products for all.
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Restarters Community
Our platform brings together community repairers, organisers and activists. Together we publicise events, log repairs, measure our environmental impact and talk about all things community repair.
Our insights
We collect data on repair from our community events and we use the data to provide insights into the devices we see.
