Press, Features and Articles

The National Scotland

July 2021

Scots charities use refurbished laptops to tackle isolation

Pioneers Post

July 2021

Top 100 UK social enterprises revealed: NatWest SE100 2021

The Edinburgh Reporter

March 2021

Top city organisations named at Edinburgh Chamber Awards

Edinburgh Evening News

November 2020

North Edinburgh organisations join forces to help vulnerable over winter in Leith Gives project

Pioneers Post

November 2020

Women of inspiration: 100 social enterprise leaders showing Covid who’s boss

The Scotsman

November 2020

The increasingly centre-stage role of Scotland’s social enterprises

Edinburgh Evening News

June 2020

Edinburgh Remakery in plea for old IT equipment to combat Covid-19 isolation

The Courier

June 2020

Helping our businesses towards brighter futures

Pioneers Post

May 2020

Top 100 Social Enterprises in UK revealed: NatWest SE100 2020

Social Enterprise Scotland

July 2019

Social Enterprise Solutions to the Climate Emergency

Edinburgh Evening News

March 2019

‘Blue Planet effect’ sparks growth of repair shops on the high street

“People learn a valuable skill that is going to help them become more sustainable in the future”

The National

January 2019

Edinburgh Remakery outlines vision for waste-free capital

Scotsman

September 2018

Leith social enterprise helps Syrians to settle with 100 laptops

The Guardian

March 2018

Can we fix it? The repair cafes waging war on throwaway culture

Scotsman

January 2018

The Edinburgh Remakery that’s making mending mainstream

Sunday Post

August 2017

Repair culture is back in fashion: Revival of ‘make do and mend’ trend

Fast Co Design

July 2017

Designers Are Forgetting One Major Element Of The Design Process. What do you do with broken products? You fix them.

Fast Co Design

July 2017

Tired Of Tossing Your Phone Every Few Years? This Startup Has A Solution

BBC Radio 4 - You & Yours

June 2017

We’re told to reuse and recycle but that’s sometimes easier said than done. In Edinburgh, they have an answer to that…  (approx 23 minutes 30 seconds in)

Make Wealth History

March 2017

Every town needs a Remakery

Third Force News

October 2016

An Edinburgh social entrepreneur dedicated to reducing waste and repairing existing objects is one of five finalists for the UK social entrepreneur of the year.

Radio NZ

May 2017

‘Waste Not, Want Not’ interview

Deutsche Welle

February 2017

‘Make things last’: Can the circular economy save the planet?

Clearly Magazine

May 2016

The Edinburgh Remakery, ‘a unique new re-use and repair superstore’, has opened in the Scottish capital.

Can Do Places

July 2017

Ex Bank Becomes Can Do Space

Common Space

October 2016

The vision of creating a network of community reuse and repair centres

REconomy Project

January 2015

The Journey of Setting up a Reuse and Repair Centre – a solution for a circular economy