FIY Hackney, Saturdays 17/10 - 21/11

About

Fix It Yourself Hackney covers essential repair skills over six hands-on workshops. The course is designed to help you save money, cut waste and get hands-on fixing experience in a friendly environment.

This course takes place on Saturday afternoons at the Hackney Fixing Factory from October 17th to 21st November. Each session covers a different topic, so by the end of a term you’ll have learned loads of new skills you can put to use at home!

Each session is designed for beginners and includes a blend of listening, watching demos and hands-on fixing.

Each session builds on the previous one, but not to worry if you can't make them all - you can also attend each event individually.

Participants must be at least 18 years old.

Overview of the eight sessions

Session 1: Rookie Repairer (Learn and practice how to wire plugs and use tools to do so, as well as how to approach repair - learning visual safety inspection of items as a group and individually).

• 17th October 

Session 2: Bulbs and Basics - Lamps part one (Learn lamp, switch and bulb holder wiring, explore different lamp components).

• 24th October

Session 3: Light It Up - Lamps part two (Building on bulbs and basics: Explore some sabotaged lamps, bring your own, diagnose and repair them).

• 31st October

Session 4: Nice Splice - Soldering part one (Intro to connecting wires and soldering - splicing wires, repairing connections).

• 7th November

Session 5: Through The Hole - Soldering part two (Building on Nice Splice - soldering part one: Hone your solder skills -solder and desolder components on printed circuit boards).

• 14th November

Session 6: Fix It Myself! (Building on prior lessons, but really recommended to have attended Rookie Repairer at least -
Explore sabotaged toasters, diagnose and repair them with the skills you’ve learned during the course). 

• 21st November

Refunds and cancellations

Bookings are only refundable up until a week before the event. After that point they are non-refundable. This is because we are a charity and need to pay our staff and facilitators/fixers to run events, so we lose charitable income from last-minute cancellations. It may be possible to reschedule your booking, but this is entirely at the workshop manager's discretion and may depend on overall numbers and availability for the particular workshop. Contact us on rhio@therestartproject.org if you want to reschedule.