ABOUT USThe Restart Project aims to tackle the climate emergency by making electronics work for people, for the planet, and for longer.
The Restart Project helps people learn how to repair their broken electronics, and rethink how they consume them in the first place.
We’re a people-powered social enterprise that believes every product should be repairable, and that repair and reuse should be accessible and affordable for everyone.
Right now, we live in a throwaway economy. It can be tough to find options for repair locally, and electronics can be needlessly hard to fix. As a result we’re losing repair skills in our communities, throwing more away, and buying more new. It’s building a mountain of e-waste while using ever more of our planet’s limited resources.
That’s why we make repair easier for everyone.
We help people run repair events in their communities where they teach each other how to fix their broken and slow devices – from tablets to toasters, from iPhones to headphones. We run fixing factories that help people repair their things, build repair directories where people can find help near them and train people in repair skills.
Our home is London, but we support the repair movement from Brussels to Buenos Aires to Bangalore, collecting stories and data about our broken belongings along the way.
These insights from hundreds of thousands of fixes help us speak out about what really needs to change – pushing governments to change the rules and businesses to change the way they make stuff by campaigning for our Right to Repair.
[b[Our Strategy: 2022 - 2025
Our long term vision remains very steady. But as we reach our second decade as an organisation, we’re still in the middle of public health and environmental crises. These very much shaped our second major strategy process. As have favourable changes in the external context: growth of the community repair movement and traction for Right to Repair, something that would’ve seemed impossible only years ago.
We decided to opt for a shorter internal strategy, allowing ourselves to reassess in 2024.
What follows is the guiding and organising logic behind our charitable work towards a time when
Our relationship with electronics is fixed – with communities and planet at the centre.
We are an organisation that advocates and campaigns, yes, but our work is solidly grounded in hands-on work embedded in our communities. Our strategy is tri-partite, recognising that the grassroots work needs the campaigning, policy and public awareness work, and vice-versa. Each strategic outcome is virtuously entangled with the others, and cannot stand alone.
Outcome 1: Change in values and behaviours – people use stuff longer and appreciate it more
Outcome 2: Everyone can participate in a local ecosystem that extends the lifetimes of products
Outcome 3: Better electronics and effective regulation – setting standards for electronics and compliance
