@ East Linton Community Hall 10.30am-12.30pm Saturday 24th October Come and join our fabulous tutor, Sheena, for this free 2 hour workshop where you'll learn all kinds of sewing skills and leave with something new made from something old! Email fixingforafuture@gmail.com to book your place All materials provided or bring your own if you have a pair of old jeans and any fabric you'd like to use!

Crafting by Kids for Kids @ Repair Café East Linton! East Linton Community Hall 10am-1pm Saturday 24th October Guided by our crafty P7 tutors, Frida and Mona, we'll be celebrating autumn and creating some sensational, spooky surprises! We'll be using driftwood, pinecones, autumn leaves, felt and fabric scraps and twine to make: A badge to turn an everyday jumper or t-shirt into festive Halloween wear! Marvellous mobiles! And resplendent leaf rubbings! Drop-In Ages approx 5-12

Our Linux volunteer team have had our first meet up and we'll be ready for you to bring your old laptops and PCs to us on Saturday 24th October, East Linton Community Hall, 10am-1pm Do you have an old laptop or PC sitting unused at the back of a cupboard, not sure what to do with it? Let's give those old laptops a new lease of life and help reduce electronic waste in East Lothian! BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL! Please email Rosie, fixingforafuture@gmail.com to save your place. You're

Check out our ingenious inventory and settle into the changing of the seasons! Press your apples, make your healthy kale and beetroot crisps, cut your hedge, sew your shirt and heat your home! Here are our top picks... Fruit press Food dehydrator Thermal Imaging Camera Singer Heaving Duty Sewing Machine Cordless Hedge Trimmer Digital Detector Plumbing Toolkit Pressure Washer To experience the full wonders of our inventory, go here Did you know we also have books on everything

East Linton Community Hall Saturday 24th October 10am-1pm Household Furniture Got a veneer that's seen better days? A wobbly leg? Pesky scratches or a busted handle? Whatever your furniture issue, Martin A, Willie and Bob will do their best to make things square and true! Tool Sharpening Sandpaper, blocks, whetstones, sharpening steel, diamond sharpeners, saw sharpening kits...Who knew there was so much to the art of tool sharpening? Bring along your kitchen, gardening and

Hello! I’m Heather, a PhD researcher at the University of St Andrews Business School. I’ve been enjoying spending time with Fixing for a Future over the past few months, as part of my research into reuse, repair, and share organisations in Scotland. I’m interested in how communities put circular economy ideas into practice. My research method is ethnography, which involves ‘participant observation’: not only observing circular practices, but also participating in them. Throug

Thank you so much to our fabulous volunteer team and to everyone who came along today. The Community Hall was buzzing and over 50 items fixed in 3 hours! Our next Repair Cafe will be 24th October so save the date - and all your broken stuff! You don't need to have something to repair. Tea, coffee, home-baking and a warm welcome guaranteed!

Repair Café East Linton East Linton Community Hall 10am-1pm Saturday 5th September Get creative with all kinds of funky fabric fragments with our fabulous tutor, Sheena! This time, to celebrate the changing of the seasons, we'll be making... Wrist warmers, autumn leaves and sauna hats! Drop-In Ages approx 5-12 years (children must be accompanied by an adult at all times) For full details of the Repair Café, go here All Welcome!

Thanks to everyone who came along to take part in our Crafting for Kids and Visible Mending workshops and to our brilliant, talented sewing and crafting team - Jan, Liz, Val, Hazel, Janet, Willie and Sheena. What a fun morning and an incredible array of mends and makes!

East Linton Community Hall Saturday 5th September 10am-1pm Household Furniture Got a veneer that's seen better days? A wobbly leg? Pesky scratches or a busted handle? Whatever your furniture issue, Martin A, Martin J and Pete will do their best to make things square and true! Tool Sharpening Sandpaper, blocks, whetstones, sharpening steel, diamond sharpeners, saw sharpening kits...Who knew there was so much to the art of tool sharpening? Bring along your kitchen, gardening

Save old laptops, cut down on electronic waste, and help your community by volunteering as a Linux tech expert at our Repair Cafe! Do you love open-source software and hate seeing good hardware go to waste? We are looking for tech-savvy volunteers to join our team and help people switch their older laptops and PCs from outdated operating systems to Linux. What You Will Do Install Linux: Help visitors install user-friendly Linux distributions onto older computers. Trouble

Just finished the latest of our 10 week Sewing Skills workshops at DGS and it's been a blast! Who knew all this could be created from "some bags of useless old stuff"?!? Thank you to our ever-creative and energised, ingenious tutor, Sheena, and to all the pupils who have taken part this term: Eva O, Rachel, Poppy, Eva B, Kyla, Jasmine, Gracie, Autumn, Brooke We'll be back after the holidays to deliver more Sewing Skills workshops for the new S1s! To find out more about our "A

Thank you so much to everyone who has come along to our Sewing Skills Workshops this term! We hope you've enjoyed the classes and look forward to seeing you again next term! And a massive thank you to our fabulous volunteer team (Anne, Caroline, Christine, Dorothy, Eleanor, Hazel, Holly, Jan, Janet, Liz M, Liz R, Valerie, Jane, Wendy, Sheila, and Susan) for making it all possible! Return dates are as follows: Tranent Library - Wednesday 12th August 10.15am-12.15pm Dunbar Libr

WHY A LINUX REPAIR CAFÉ? At a time when technology is rapidly becoming obsolete and the mountain of electronic waste continues to grow, Linux Repair Cafés are a sustainable and hopeful activity. Here, visitors can have the commercial operating software on their computers—such as Microsoft Windows or Apple macOS—replaced with the free open-source operating system Linux. The immediate reason for the Linux Repair Cafés is Microsoft's decision to stop supporting Windows 10, the o

It's been another great term running our volunteer-led, free, sewing skills workshops at four East Lothian libraries! Lovely to see lots of the team at our most recent volunteer meet up in Haddington! Each of our volunteers brings a wealth of sewing knowledge and experience and, collectively, our team can help you fix pretty much anything! North Berwick Library: Mondays 2.30-4.30pm​ (term time) Tranent Library: Wednesdays 10.15-12.15pm (term time) Dunbar Library: Thursdays 9.

Fast Fashion is the rapid production of inexpensive, low quality clothing that copies the latest styles. The goal is to maximize profits by getting new styles into stores quickly. Did you know…? The fashion industry is responsible for around 10% of global carbon emissions, more than international flights and maritime shipping combined! and Consumers purchase 60% more clothing today than they did in 2000, and 85% of textiles end up in landfills every year! (And these are just

Thank you so much to our fabulous volunteer team and to everyone who came along today to help create another radiant Repair Cafe! Nearly 50 items fixed in 3 hours! We'll be taking a break now, back on Saturday 5th September so save the date (and your repairs)! We wish you all a happy summer and look forward to seeing you back at the next Repair Cafe! You don't need to have something to repair. Tea, coffee, home-baking and a warm welcome guaranteed!

Fixing for a Future is delighted to receive a Healthy Planet, Healthy People Award from the Royal Society of Edinburgh to research "How Green is Too Green?" These awards encourage knowledge exchange and collaborative research practices amongst and between local communities. The resulting findings and outputs are often scalable, producing valuable insights that can be used by similar groups working in other areas of the country and beyond. Read here to find out more about our

We're going wild for crafting at our next Repair Cafe! Bringing you not just one but two captivating crafting activities to choose from. If you're feeling extra inspired, you can even do both!.... Come along to... Repair Café East Linton East Linton Community Hall 10am-1pm Saturday 30th May Crafting for Kids and Adults! Make a panel to contribute to our Community Butterfly: A Celebration of Summer, Biodiversity and Migration using recycled paper, cardboard, wrappers, fabric s

East Linton Community Hall Saturday 30th May 10am-1pm Household Furniture Got a veneer that's seen better days? A wobbly leg? Pesky scratches or a busted handle? Whatever your furniture issue, Martin A, Martin J and Pete will do their best to make things square and true! Tool Sharpening Sandpaper, blocks, whetstones, sharpening steel, diamond sharpeners, saw sharpening kits...Who knew there was so much to the art of tool sharpening? Bring along your kitchen, gardening and D