The third Parliamentary Repair Cafe took place on 26 March 2026. The previous events in 2024 and 2025 engage UK politicians to support better rights to repair.

The well attended event, was organised by The Restart Project and Back Market and hosted by Helen Hayes MP. It brought together community repairs, Team Repair and MPs to discuss the important of repair and reuse. Its focus was to increase support for better rights to repair and add signatories to the Repair and Reuse Declaration (and if your MP has not yet signed, please direct them to this link).

At the event we heard from BBC’s Sean Fletcher a great story about how Fixing Factory volunteers repaired his 20+ year old wedding present toaster days before his anniversary.
Team Repair brought in some pupils from a local school to have a phone repair session led by Anaïs Engelmann.

The event closed off hearing Circular Economy Minister Mary Creagh CBE MP support the demands in the repair and reuse declaration: we need repair to be cheaper and easier; products designed to be repairable, with decent information and affordable spares and investment in training and facilities for the next generation of fixers.

In summary: a better right to repair would – help with the cost of living crisis, help reduce waste, help the environment and help create sustainable jobs for the future, all at virtually no cost.

A bit of a ‘no brainer’?