Repair Café Aotearoa NZ was fortunate to attend Festival for the Future 2022 , July 29-31 in Te-Whanganui-a-Tara. This was a fantastic opportunity to meet young changemakers, who gather at FFTF to learn and celebrate the incredible work going on in Aotearoa toward a positive future. The team at Inspiring Stories hosted us in their Expo space, where we were able to korero with attendees about the growing repair movement in Aotearoa. Our stall had enthusiastic reception among

On Thursday, 7 July at midday, we delivered our Make it our Right to Repair petition to the Minister for the Environment, Hon. David Parker with 12,901 signatures! We were supported by MPs Hon Eugenie Sage, Ricardo Menendez, Chloe Swarbrick and Helen White, as well as Dr Paul Smith from Consumer NZ and James Griffin from Sustainable Business Network . There was a mini-Repair Café on-site, with Bea Lorimer from Heke Designs and Richard Barter from Bike Kitchen. It was a day