Youth Repair Workshop - Phone Edition

This practical workshop will be delivered by The Restart Project in partnership with East London Waste Authority.

Join 12 like minded young people in a safe and relaxed environment to learn practical repair skills and find out how are phones are made and all the precious metals and minerals within.

Each young person will be provided with all of the equipment including a mobile phone to work on in the session, please don't bring your own damaged phone.

Experienced fixers from The Restart Project will be on hand to support during the workshop.

No previous fixing experience necessary

The workshop is free and spaces are limited.

What is the workshop like?

Watch the video below to find out what to expect.

Key information

Date: Thursday 22nd October

Time: 4.30pm-7.30pm

Location: Redbridge Central Library, Clements Road, Ilford, IG1 1EA

(In the LAB Central area)

Audience: Suitable for young people aged 16-19 years old

Booking required

If you are 16-17 years old please complete this booking with your parent/guardian and share your parent/guardian's email address and phone number. If 18 or over please include your email address and phone number.

Accessibility

We do our best to make the workshops as accessible as possible. Please do let us know if there are any adaptations that can be made to support the young people access the workshop.

The 12 young people will be supported by experienced fixers, please note one to one support will not be available, parents/ guardians can attend to support if preferred.

The workshop will be taking place on the ground floor which has step free access in the LAB section of the library.

On the day

The lead organiser has an Enhanced DBS certificate and is First Aid trained.

Snacks and soft drinks will be provided

Parents / Guardians will be responsible to support the young person to travel safely to and from the workshop, please note the library closes at 8pm.

If a young person does not attend the workshop, we will inform the parent/ guardian using the emergency contact before 5pm and leave a message if possible.

Confirming your place

We will be sending out a confirmation email from campaigns@eastlondonwaste.gov.uk on Thursday 15th at 10am please do make sure you confirm attendance ahead of the workshop by Monday at 10am.

If we have not received email confirmation we will offer the workshop space to the next person on the waiting list.

Any questions please email: campaigns@eastlondonwaste.gov.uk or call 020 8724 5804