In the lead-up to the 2019 Festival of Maintenance, we are catching up with some of our speakers from 2018 to reflect on the value of maintenance in our work and everyday lives. Oliver Holtaway advises social enterprises and mission-led businesses on strategy, research and communications, and helped to make Bath City FC a community-owned football club. See Oliver’s talk from the 2018 Festival here. … Continue reading How do you maintain a football club? Oliver Holtaway on the community takeover of Bath City FC

The 2018 Festival of Maintenance brought together a variety of fantastic speakers. Leading up to the 2019 Festival, we are catching up with some of our speakers from 2018 to reflect on the value of maintenance in our work and everyday lives. Alex Mecklenburg is a co-founder at Truth & Spectacle, a consultancy that helps organisations own their creativity as a business function for innovation … Continue reading Alex Mecklenburg on maintenance and why we need better stories

Repair is as important as innovation Continue reading The Economist piece on the Festival of Maintenance

Researcher, Hannah Fisher, reports from the London Festival of Maintenance and interviews Laura James, Daria Cybulska and Janet Gunter. Continue reading BBC report from the Festival of Maintenance

A summary of the day, audience feedback, and details of where Festival funds came from and what they were spent on. Continue reading Laura James reflects on the first Festival of Maintenance.

Originally recorded for the Festival of Maintenance, Alanna Irving presents Full Circle Leadership. Continue reading Full Circle Leadership by Alanna Irving

From making to maintaining. Continue reading What was the inspiration behind the Festival of Maintenance?