Wild Wales has teamed up with Snowdonia Gear Repair to offer a day of subsidised gear repair workshops on Saturday 22nd of March.
Repairing outdoor gear is important – Snowdonia Gear Repair are very good at repairing and tailoring outdoor gear.
What is it? 3 hour outdoor gear repair workshops
When is it? 10:00 – 13:00 or 14:00 – 17:00 on Saturday 22nd of March
Where is it? Snowdonia Gear Repair | Y Felinheli | LL56 4JS
Who’s it for? Anyone that’s part of the Wild Wales community
How much does it cost? £10 per person for one of the workshops – morning or afternoon
True Cost? £16 per person (Wild Wales is contributing £6 per person).
You can bring your own gear to be mended during the workshop
Have you booked a day with us? Have you booked a course with us? Do you follow Wild Wales on social media? Are you part of a Mountain Rescue Team? Do you work or volunteer in the outdoors in North Wales?
If any of those is a yes – you’re very, very welcome to come along and fix your outdoor gear. if you’d like to come along just fill in your details here…
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The Workshops | Outdoor Gear Repair
We’re running two workshops on Saturday the 22nd of March, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. The morning and afternoon workshops will cover the same things – please only book one workshop during the day.
Please do share the workshops with your friends and get them to come along with you – we just ask that they follow Snowdonia Gear Repair and Wild Wales on social media.
Morning session: 10:00 – 13:00
Afternoon session: 14:00 – 17:00
There are 12 spaces on each workshop. There will be two instructors leading each workshop.
Workshops will cover things like…
- Basic hand sewing,
- A guide to tapes and glues for outdoor gear
- A lesson on quick fixes for zips
- You can bring your own gear to be mended during the workshop
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Why we Really Like Snowdonia Gear Repair
Rosanna and her crew are nice people.
Our Mountain Rescue team trusts them to fix and make alterations to waterproof kit that we really, really rely on.
Our friends trust them to fix their gear, we trust them to fix our gear.
We first met Rosanna at a gear repair workshop at Plas y Brenin, she helped us fix a base layer, darn some gloves and heat seal some patches on trousers – all in three wonderful hours.
Since then Snowdonia Gear Repair have replaced zips, shortened waterproof salopettes, taken in jackets, adjusted sleeve lengths, added velcro and removed reflective tape for us.
In fact, it’s fair to say, that we now think differently about outdoor gear. We can buy kit from Vinted knowing it can be repaired and adjusted, we look for older kit that’s seen some life that we can add some character to with colour and patches.

Repairing Outdoor Gear is Important
If you work or play in the mountains, trying to reduce the impact you have on the landscape is a good thing to do – getting kit repaired and learning how to repair it yourself is important.
Sometimes we (Emma & Owen) kid ourselves that our life is a little less damaging to the world because we reuse carrier bags, think quite carefully about the food we eat and buy our clothes and outdoor equipment second hand.
BUT we still drive to most of our days in the mountains, we have a big dog and take a flight every few years.
Something we know we CAN do is repair outdoor clothing and equipment.
Repaired outdoor gear is very cool – it has a story, it has character, it looks like it’s been used.
Shiny, new, outdoor gear is less cool – it’s shiny, and new.

Wild Wales in North Wales
Wild Wales helps people have brilliant adventures in North Wales.
We specialise in Mountain Walking and Wild Swimming.
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