With less than 3 months to go, Repair Day 2024 will be here in no time! So, we facilitated a webinar with organisers around the world to share initial plans to mark the occasion. Watch here:
This year, we’re keeping “Repair for Everyone” as a tagline, but we’re happy to see Repair Day celebrated with multiple themes and activities around the world. You can access our initial Repair Day toolkit now, including save the date cards in multiple languages! More materials will be added in due course.
As the Open Repair Alliance, we will be releasing a report with key insights from the data collected by community repair groups globally, coinciding with the release of the updated open repair dataset – watch this space!
In the UK, The Restart Project are renewing efforts to publicise the UK Repair and Reuse Declaration. With a new government in place and many new MPs, they’re running an action to get local repair groups to engage their politicians. In the lead up to October, repair groups are sending cards to their local MP to welcome them to office and invite them to their Repair Day event.
In the Netherlands, Repair Café International is celebrating its 15th year! They’re encouraging groups from across the globe to design unique panels to be connected in a joint bunting line! They’ll also be holding an XL Repair Café on October 18th in The Hague. Many groups in the UK will also be baking cakes to mark the anniversary.
In Belgium, Repair Together are organising an event in Namur, featuring their prolific Repair Café Mobile! This time with a training focusing on sewing machine and clothing repairs. They will also be hosting an event in Brussels in collaboration with Repair&Share which will hopefully conclude in a large-scale repair café on the Grand Place (overseen by the famous Manneken Pis statue decked out in repair uniform)
In France, HOP are running the second edition of their Journées nationales de la réparation from the 18th-20th October. They had a broad spectrum of events last year – 1,316 to be exact – including conferences, exhibitions and festivals.
In Italy, a “repair roundtable” is being assembled by Zero Waste Italy and other partners. They are hoping to push the Italian government to implement repair vouchers and make repair more affordable. Additional community repair events, activities and conferences will also be taking place.
In Uganda, Community Creativity for Development will be running a training course for those living at the Rhino Camp Refugee Camp. They’ll then showcase what they’ve learned at an event for Repair Day.
And in India, Repair Cafe Collective India will be holding repair workshops in Bangalore, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Chennai, where they have connected with local sustainable initiatives to hold repair based events.
Do you have an event planned to mark the day? Add it to our map using this form so that we can see what the repair community is doing across the globe!