Fixing for a Future 2025 and Beyond...!

It’s been another busy year for Fixing for a Future! We’ve delivered 6 Repair Cafes at East Linton Community Hall, with the popularity of this event growing each time. We’ve had lots of wonderful feedback on skills learned and friendships made and have fixed over 350 household items. Alongside the Repair Café, we’ve also collaborated with Cycling UK to run free bike repair and maintenance masterclasses.

As part of our campaign ‘Against Fast Fashion!,’ we’ve run weekly sewing skills workshops for pupils at Meadow Park, Knox Academy and Preston Lodge, as well as for Tranent Library Youth Club, young people supported by East Lothian Works at Musselburgh East and intergenerational sewing classes for Klub Krakowiak in Tranent. We’re looking forward to starting weekly sewing skills workshops for pupils at Dunbar Grammar School in the spring of 2026!

Our free, weekly, volunteer-led sewing classes at Haddington and Tranent libraries have been so popular that we’ve now expanded our volunteer team and have started a further weekly group at North Berwick Library. Spring 2026 will see us adding an additional weekly class to the mix at Dunbar Library. Since we started early last year, we’ve had over 300 sign ups!

A team of us ran a workshop, “Zero Waste: New Futures for Old Clothes” at East Lothian Climate Action Network’s Green Futures Festival at Queen Margaret’s University, which was great fun and very well attended by children and adults. The Project Officer also visited Parliament along with representatives of Edinburgh Remakery and Circular Communities Scotland to support the UK Repair and Reuse Declaration, a campaign coordinated by The Restart Project, which lobbies for policy changes to make repairing and reusing products easier and more affordable in the UK. 

Early in December, we ran our first Big Green Christmas Crafting Extravaganza in East Linton, with our crafty volunteers helping visitors make decorative winter wonders from waste! We loved it so much that we're already planning the next Big Green Crafting Extravaganza (the spring edition) on 8th March 2026, so save the date!

East Linton Tool Library is thriving, thanks to our fabulous volunteer team and loyal members! Since we opened the doors to our 20ft portacabin, we've had 3822 loans! Our inventory has benefited from a number of great additions this year. Go here to browse - https://eastlintontoollibrary.myturn.com/library/inventory/browse

and if you’d like to join the Tool Library and have access to over 300 items for 25 pounds per year, please go here to become a member - https://eastlintontoollibrary.myturn.com/library/

If you’d like to find out more or get involved please visit our website - www.fixingforafuture.org and email fixingforafuture@gmail.com

Thank you to everyone who has supported us this year, and especially to our incredible volunteer team!

Everything we do is completely dependent upon the dedication of our remarkable volunteers and our volunteer team is now made up of over 80 people, bringing a wealth of skills, knowledge and experience and barrels of enthusiasm!

Here's wishing you all a peaceful and happy festive break and we'll look forward to seeing you in 2026!