Student Repair Revolution

Be Part of the Student Repair Revolution!

Students across the UK are taking action to reduce waste, lower greenhouse gas emissions and save money by giving their stuff a new lease of life. Do you want to be part of the student repair revolution?

The Community Repair Network is working with university groups up and down the country to help them set up repair initiatives. We’re inspired by the creativity, dynamism and innovation of young people in the environmental movement and we want to give students and staff the support they need to make repair a priority in their universities.

We want to help people set up the events that work for them in their university and wider community. From tech amnesties, workshops, repair parties to whatever unique repair projects students and staff have in mind we want to help students embrace the creativity, joy and curiosity of repair.

Similarly to the movement to slow down consumption of fast fashion by repairing and reusing clothes, we want to spark the same awareness amongst young people around e-waste, and help support students to be empowered and engaged in the repair movement.

We hope to:

• Create more awareness about e-waste, and help young people to keep their devices in use for longer.
• Enable students to have access to repair knowledge and repair communities on their campuses.
• Encourage creativity and innovation in repair formats.
• Increase students’ confidence to safely repair their electronics.

You don’t need to be a repair wiz to set up a repair initiative – in fact you don’t need to have any experience of repair at all. You just need to be curious to learn more and committed to reducing your consumption of new electronics. Repair initiatives enable you to learn new skills, meet people who are also interested in building their repair skills, and develop a new relationship with your tech. 

We’re running this project alongside The Restart Project, with funding from Hubbub and Virgin Media O2’s Time After Time E-Waste fund. Alongside our partners, we hop to amplify awareness of e-waste and make repair and repair skills more accessible to students.