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Date: 28 Feb 2025
Belfast residents are being encouraged to embrace the value of repairing and reusing during Belfast Repair Week from Monday 3 to Sunday 9 March.
Belfast City Council is working with ReLondon to run repair workshops, discussions and interactive sessions across the city, where individuals and communities can come together to learn valuable skills, save money and contribute to a greener future.
Repairing items, instead of discarding them, helps reduce demand for natural resources, cut carbon emissions linked to waste disposal, minimise landfill waste, extend the lifespan of belongings and foster a culture of skill-sharing and sustainability.
Events during Belfast Repair Week include Monday Mendathon (Monday, 3 March, 12pm-6pm, 2 Royal Avenue), a drop-in event where attendees can bring items to repair, or learn mending techniques from Sustainable Fashion expert Sue Bamford from Tools for Solidarity.
Mend Your Ways (Monday, 3 March, 7pm – 8.30pm) is a webinar exploring the potential of a circular fashion model with industry experts, including Great British Sewing Bee’s Angeline Murphy and Mary Fleming of Change Clothes, and hosted by BBC NI’s Louise Cullen.
On Tuesday, 4 March, 10am-3pm, Fixing the Future at Ulster University’s Belfast campus offers a hands-on day of repair and skill-sharing, while Revive and Re-Wear at St Vincent De Paul on Antrim Road (Wednesday, 5 March, 2pm - 5pm) will be a celebration of sustainable fashion, where customers can learn valuable mending techniques to prolong the lifespan of clothes.
On Wednesday, 5 March, 7pm – 8.30pm, the Mending Pile Meet-up will take place at Belfast Tool Library, located at Shankill Road Mission. Everyone is welcome to join the group in repairing old clothes, with expert stitchers on hand to assist.
The library is also running a furniture repair workshop on Thursday, 6 March, 11am - 2pm, where visitors can bring along broken furniture and learn practical repair techniques.
Bike maintenance sessions will take place on Thursday, 6 March and Friday, 7 March at Cregagh and Markets Community Centres, encouraging people to get back in the saddle, while a special edition of Repair Café Belfast is planned for Saturday, 8 March at South Belfast Quaker Meeting House, where skilled volunteers will be on hand to help repair a variety of household items.
Many Belfast Repair Week events are free and open to beginners. Some workshops do require advance booking – visit the council website at belfastcity.gov.uk/belfastrepairweek for full details.