The St Albans District Fixers have the skills to help you repair and reuse items that may have otherwise been discarded. To be kept informed of the next St Albans District Fixers event sign up to the Sustainable St Albans Newsletter on our contact page. Keep up to date with us on our Instagram account or join our Facebook group.
To date 25 events (as of October 2025) have made a substantial contribution to saving CO2 and other environmental impacts.
Full details of confirmed events are shown below.
Booking usually opens about one month before each event, when you will be able to book a slot with a fixer via Eventbrite.
Events
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February St Albans District Fixers Repair Fair
All Saints Church 129 Station Road, Harpenden, United KingdomSt Albans District Fixers are coming to All Saints Church, Harpenden to help repair household fabrics and electrical items you might otherwise throw away. This is part of a wider… Read More »February St Albans District Fixers Repair Fair
At each event, skilled amateur fixers tackle broken portable electrical and electronic goods, simple fabric and clothing repairs and at some events bikes are serviced and repair.
Simple fabric and clothing repairs. Get help to repair, reuse and recycle clothing. At the repair there are people with sewing skills to bring life back to items that otherwise might be discarded.
The art of bicycle maintenance. Some of our repair fairs include advice and support on bike servicing and repairs to get you and your bike going again.
Volunteering and The Right to Repair
We were inspired by The Restart Project. The project campaigns for consumers to be given the right to repair their own goods, and maintains a database of many thousands of fixes to support its campaigning for a meaningful right to repair. Sustainable St Albans and the St Albans Fixers contribute to this goal by using the Restart Fixometer tool to estimate e-waste and CO2 emissions savings achieved, as shown above.
In addition; our collective efforts help counter the throw-away mentality and foster a culture of repair across the district.
Join us!
If you have skills in any of our product areas (electrics, electronics, clothing and fabrics) and want to join the fixing team, use the comment form below to tell us what skills you have to support our collective efforts. Even if you think your skills are quite basic you will be welcome, the team learn on the job and from one another. You can also contact us via our Facebook group St Albans District Fixers or just drop an email to fixers@sustainablestalbans.org
We would be delighted to hear from you.
To hear more about being a fixer, have a listen to this podcast on Mix 92.5
I think I’d love to volunteer! I’ve recently graduated with an aerospace engineering degree from the University of Sheffield and I’ve worked at Dyson so I have some product knowledge and conversational skills. I also attended the last Fix It at St. Pauls church and helped Jean (the fixer) fix a cat sound machine. I hope to hear from you soon as sustainability and right to repair are thing I both really care about!
Thanks,
Archie