Fixing for a Future

19/06/2026

***Coming soon to East Lothian...

🥳🤩LINUX REPAIR CAFE! 🥳🤩

Come and join our Linux Repair Cafe volunteer team and let's give those old laptops a new lease of life and help reduce electronic waste in East Lothian!***

Email [email protected] to get involved

**At a time when technology is rapidly becoming obsolete and the mountain of electronic waste continues to grow, Linux Repair Cafés are a sustainable and hopeful activity. Here, visitors can have the commercial operating software on their computers—such as Microsoft Windows or Apple macOS—replaced with the free open-source operating system Linux...**

For full info, see below:

WHY A LINUX REPAIR CAFÉ?At a time when technology is rapidly becoming obsolete and the mountain of electronic waste continues to grow, Linux Repair Cafés are a sustainable and hopeful activity. Here, visitors can have the commercial operating software on their computers—such as Microsoft Windows...

18/06/2026

**Sewing Repair Skills @ East Lothian Libraries Dunbar and East Linton Libraries North Berwick and Gullane Libraries Tranent and Ormiston Libraries** Lovely to see lots of the team at our most recent volunteer meet up in Haddington! Each of our volunteers brings a wealth of sewing knowledge and experience and, collectively, our team can help you fix pretty much anything!**

North Berwick Library: Mondays 2.30-4.30pm​ (term time)
Tranent Library: Wednesdays 10.15-12.15pm (term time)
Dunbar Library: Thursdays 9.30-11.30am (term time)
Haddington Library: Last Monday of each month, throughout the year (including holidays)​ 4-6pm

To book your place, please email or telephone the library you'd like to attend. (Young people 12-16 must be accompanied by an adult. No young people under 12)

Some of the latest feedback from our participants:

"I learned running stitch, whip stitch and ladder stitch! I repaired the inside pocket of my jacket and a tear on the outside. Everyone was very friendly, no judgement or expectations, just helpful advice and nice conversation"

"I learned to take up trousers. The ladies were very welcoming! They showed me what to do and then I attempted it myself. I enjoyed it and learned how to do what I couldn't!!"

"It was brilliant. I've taken up trousers and am gaining more confidence to cut material. I learned herringbone stitch!"

"I learned all about my new machine, lots that I had not known. The girls are all great at teaching"

"I'm joining curtains together to suit a new window width. I've learned to change foot and needle positions on the machine. The patience of the ladies is very welcome and I'm getting there!"

It's been another great term running our volunteer-led, free, sewing skills workshops at four East Lothian libraries! Lovely to see lots of the team at our most recent volunteer meet up in Haddington!Each of our volunteers brings a wealth of sewing knowledge and experience and, collectively, our tea...

11/06/2026

**Fixing for a Future @ East Lothian Libraries**
Volunteer-led, free, sewing skills workshops at four East Lothian libraries!
North Berwick Library: Mondays 2.30-4.30pm​
Tranent Library: Wednesdays 10.15-12.15midday
Dunbar Library: Thursdays 9.30-11.30am
Haddington Library: Last Monday of each month, throughout the year (including holidays)​ 4-6pm
**To book your place, please email or telephone the library you'd like to attend**
All welcome! (Young people 12-16 must be accompanied by an adult. No young people under 12)

11/06/2026

Delighted to work with Fostering & Adoption East Lothian to deliver sewing workshops for young people at Musselburgh Community Centre. Some lovely feedback from parents - and check out these gorgeous goose bags!

09/06/2026

"“So many of the cheap, trendy goods, including clothing, are made from plastic,” she says. “It’s disheartening to face the truth that so much of this stuff ends up trashed, sometimes really quickly after it is purchased.”
High demand has also resulted in companies overproducing goods. For clothing alone, statistics show that between 10% and 40% of garments produced every year are not sold. Many of these castoffs end up in places including Ghana and India, where they do harm to the environment and to people’s health.
It can be helpful to keep these things in mind when you’re tempted to order a new throw pillow.
It’s not helpful to blame people for living according to what has been normalized by society. “This is not an exercise in morals or being holier-than-thou,” says Brown. “But it is productive to make every small effort toward less wasteful ways of buying and using stuff. We’re all in this together..."

Spending can be exciting – but how do you function outside of it? Experts share their tips for paring down buying

09/06/2026

**JOIN OUR HADDINGTON VOLUNTEER SEWING SKILLS TEAM**

Do you have a bit of spare time and some sewing skills you'd like to share with your community?

Why not become a Fixing for a Future volunteer at your local library? **

WE ARE CURRENTLY RUNNING A MONTHLY GROUP IN HADDINGTON AND WOULD LIKE TO MAKE IT WEEKLY!

** For more info or to sign up, please email Rosie, [email protected]**

07/06/2026

A free 'prom library' has been set up in a bid to tackle the cost of clothing for the event

04/06/2026

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/04/happiness-is-not-just-about-gdp-ambitious-plan-or-utopia

Some will question its credibility – but the alternative future to the one imagined in the World Justice Report is far more bleak

04/06/2026

**Fixing for a Future is an East Lothian-based community project campaigning Against Fast Fashion! We are working to encourage the learning and sharing of sewing skills among communities, and particularly among young people; to show all the benefits of up-cycling and fixing your own clothes...It enables creativity of expression, it's good for the planet - reducing CO2 emissions and waste to landfill, it saves money, it's social and it's fun!**

We're delighted to currently be working with pupils at Dunbar Grammar School! See here for fabulous up-cycled fashion!
https://www.fixingforafuture.org/post/against-fast-fashion-dunbar-grammar-school-2
If you'd like to find out more, please email [email protected]

Did you know…? The fashion industry is responsible for around 10% of global carbon emissions, more than international flights and maritime shipping combined!
and...Consumers purchase 60% more clothing today than they did in 2000, and 85% of textiles end up in landfills every year! (And these are just 2 of the very many shocking facts on this issue)