Another brand new Fixing Factory: Our Haringey hub opens its doors

We’re celebrating another Fixing Factory has opened its doors - this time in Haringey!

Located in Florentia Village, the heart of the Harringay Warehouse District, our Haringey Fixing Factory is now empowering residents to get hands-on with repairs, learn valuable skills, and give broken electronics a second life.

As with our Fixing Factories in Camden and Hackney, the new Haringey site will host free community repair events, offer hands-on training, and sell affordable refurbished goods - cutting disposal costs and creating new opportunities for local people.

The Fixing Factory will also introduce repair clubs, where volunteers restore broken items for resale or donation, alongside corporate workshops designed to raise awareness and generate income. These efforts will help stock the Fixing Factory Outlet with affordable, refurbished goods for the community.

Freelance fixers will have the opportunity to offer paid services, and subject to funding, specialist training will be available for young and low-income residents. The Factory will also collaborate with other repair organisations to expand its reach into areas like textiles, furniture, and tool maintenance.

Cllr Mike Hakata, Cabinet Member for Climate Action, Environment, and Transport, said:

“The launch of the Fixing Factory in Haringey illustrates just what a restorative, regenerative circular economy looks like in practice.

This project gives residents practical capabilities they can use throughout their lives, reduces waste at source, and creates genuine opportunities for people to connect, learn and build resilience together.

We're proud to back an initiative that delivers tangible environmental and social value to Haringey, and we're committed to supporting the circular economy transition at every level, from individual repairs to borough-wide systems change.”

By supporting reuse and repair, the Fixing Factory will support the borough’s £1.7 million waste diversion target – preventing a substantial amount of waste from ending up in landfill or incineration. In addition to this, it will provide low-cost goods to vulnerable residents.

Located in Florentia Village, a historic industrial site in the Harringay Warehouse District, the Fixing Factory brings together heritage and innovation to build a cleaner, more resilient future for Haringey.

Haringey Council is working in partnership with Haringey Fixing factory as part of its commitment to the NLWA waste strategy, which was adopted earlier this year. Through this collaboration, the council has helped the organisation secure match funding from both NLWA and Veolia. The council will provide support to help initiate and deliver the project.

By reducing waste, the initiative aims to boost recycling rates in line with Destination 50% — supporting Haringey to work towards the GLA’s 50% recycling target by 2030.

Photo of the Haringey Fixing Factory.