Every soft toy repairer we hold

A shop on the high street in Abbots Langley that sells vintage bears and runs a teddy bear hospital, with a postal repair service as well. They publish an itemised price list covering eyes, paw pads, cotterpin joints, ears, noses, cleaning, several types of stuffing, growlers and squeakers, with bigger jobs like head, hole and facial repairs quoted individually.

Diane, trading as the Dolly Fairy since 1999, running a doll hospital alongside a shop for antique and vintage dolls. Twenty-five years, a full published price list, and a specialism in elastic-strung vintage dolls: celluloids, Sasha, First Love, Sindy and Action Man. She will not take phone calls.

A doll and teddy hospital inside an antiques centre at Battlesbridge, with trained staff and the facilities for ceramic and porcelain as well as fabric. Restuffing, restitching, and a repair you walk in with rather than post.

Sarah Wilkinson, making collectable and memory bears and taking repairs, in Brighouse. The clearest refusal on any homepage in this dataset, set in asterisks at the top of the page: she does not currently accept antique, jointed or foam filled bears. Photos by WhatsApp or email.

Established 1991 in Woodingdean, Brighton. A teddy bear hospital on site alongside a shop and memory bears: new eyes to see with, a new nose to smell with, a new mouth to smile with, and arms reattached so they can hug you again.

An accredited conservation studio in Bristol, run by Alison Lister, working for the National Trust, English Heritage and Eton College as well as private owners. Teddy bears are on their list alongside tapestries and ecclesiastical textiles. Their write-up of a private toy collection sooted by a house fire is the most careful description of soft toy cleaning anywhere in this dataset.

A toy shop in Corbridge that runs a soft toy repair service, the Plush Clinic, with the work done by Olena. They take textile toys only, from small stitch repairs up to full rebuilds, and they say repairs are booked up around eighteen months ahead.

A teddy bear hospital and soft toy cleaning workshop in Cornwall, run by Angie, doing cleaning, restuffing, repairs such as eyes, seams, paw pads, joints and detached heads, and full restoration of vintage bears. Dog attack rebuilds are taken case by case, work is quoted after they inspect the bear, and you have to phone to book a posting slot.

A one-person workshop in the Lake District run by Ingrid Robson, who has been making and repairing teddy bears and dolls for over 30 years. Work ranges from patching up a tatty bear to rebuilding dolls that have come apart, and she agrees the level of restoration with the owner before starting.

A soft play manufacturer of twenty-five years that also cleans and disinfects play frames, ball pools, crawl tubes and slides on a schedule. This is the business-to-business tier: nurseries, soft play centres and trampoline parks, not your bear.

Sam repairs and restores teddy bears from a home workshop in Dorset and Devon, and also buys and sells antique and vintage bears. She publishes a full price list covering cleaning, restuffing, darning, relining, joints, eyes, noses, growlers and moth treatment, and books bears in for set periods of the year.

A free volunteer repair café with a strand it calls the Toy Hospital. Their framing is the useful one: a soft toy is a good first repair to attempt yourself, and somebody will start you off or talk you through it so you can do it next time. Textiles volunteers at every café.

Twenty years of inspecting, repairing and cleaning play equipment across the UK, including a ball-washing service where the balls are sucked out, drawn through a sanitising solution and blown into a net bag to dry naturally. Business to business: nurseries, soft play centres, gyms.

A one-person soft toy repair service in Hartlepool offering surface cleaning and brushing, seam repairs, stuffing replacement, and eye, nose and paw pad replacement, plus a fuller clean-and-repair service for delicate plushies. The site publishes no prices, no turnaround times and no phone or email, only a message form.

A Lancashire workroom run by Dr Jackie, who both makes traditional jointed bears and repairs worn ones. The site mentions reattaching limbs, fixing drooping heads and making memory bears from a person's own clothing, but gives no prices or turnaround times.

Repair, maintenance and safety inspection of soft play and inflatables from a Midlands base, covering Leicester, Northampton, Nottingham, Birmingham, Coventry and Derby locally and the rest of the country besides. For venues, not for your bear.

A long-running teddy bear restorer that has worked on bears and toy animals for over 40 years, taking in work by post and courier. They handle anything from a light clean to rebuilding a badly worn bear, including eyes, pads, stitching, joints and re-stuffing, and they will take on bears with insect infestation or smoke damage.

Katherine, working from home in Leyton E10, repairing soft toys and re-upholstering fabric rocking horses. She takes only a few toys at a time and most go back within days, and in winter, when the heating is on and things dry quickly, an uncomplicated repair can be done the same day if you drop it early and collect before bedtime. Almost nothing else in the UK offers that.

A family shop and workshop in Lockerbie with thirty-five years behind it, named best vintage toy restoration company at the 2025 Scottish Enterprise Awards. Action figures and dolls, tinplate and clockwork, rocking horses and pedal cars, and a no fix no fee policy: if they cannot mend it you pay the return postage and nothing else.

A London dry cleaning chain with branches, offering what they call a repair, restoration and cleaning service for all soft toys, plus an ozone clean aimed at bacteria rather than dirt. A dry cleaner offering restoration rather than just a wash is unusual, and this is exactly the elastic supply nobody aggregates.

A London dry cleaner with six branches and a published soft toy cleaning price list by size, from 15.95 to 69.95 pounds. Free collection and delivery, same-day and 24-hour turnarounds, and everything done in house rather than sent out. Cleaning only, though they do repairs and alterations on clothing.

Repairing, restoring and making custom teddy bears in Lytham St Annes.

Forty years of restoring rocking horses and dolls houses from the Old Village Bakery near Penrith, alongside making wooden toys. The most honest paragraph about price in the whole dataset: restoration is not cheap, and anybody offering to do it for a few pounds is not going to do a proper job.

A one-woman doll restoration business in Norfolk that also takes teddies and other old soft toys. The work listed is re-stuffing, new eyes and ears, mending holes, new growlers and new arm and leg pads, and no prices or turnaround times are published.

A toy and doll repair shop in Musselburgh that works on teddies, soft toys, dolls and hard collectables. They handle everything from a split seam up to full re-coverings and rebuilt bears, and they quote through a request form rather than publishing a fixed price on the pages captured here.

A memory keepsake company in Plymouth with over 2,000 reviews, running a Teddy Hospital as a fixed forty pound product. They un-stuff the bear, repair and reinforce the seams from the inside, restuff, and re-cover worn areas. Email a photo first so they can decide which tier you need. Currently unavailable, with an email list.

Janet Legg repairs antique and vintage teddy bears from Poole in Dorset, working by post and doing everything from a light clean to a full rebuild. She is specific about what she will not take on, including modern bears beyond cleaning and restuffing, sheepskin, real fur and knitted bears, and bears with insect infestation.

A 1940s-style tearoom and shop in Sproughton, near Ipswich, which lists a Teddy Bear Hospital as one of its sections. Nothing on the pages we have says what repair work is taken on or how you hand a toy in, so you would have to ring and ask.

Deep cleaning and repair of indoor soft play areas across the UK, regular or one-off: floor matting lifted and cleaned, frame joints hoovered, voids cleared, netting cleaned, ball pools done. They repair netting and carpets on the same visit. Business to business.

A family restoration firm since 1968 covering buildings and contents, with a classic toys line that takes teddy bears, ceramic dolls, rocking horses and dolls houses. Because the same firm does wood, metal, ceramics, textiles and fine art, they can take a toy that is several of those at once, which most specialists cannot.

A Walthamstow sewing studio that also takes in soft toy repairs, standing in for a more specialist repairer and passing the hardest jobs on to her. It covers washing, restuffing, seams, patching, joints, paw pads, eyes, noses and full linings, with published guide prices and every toy assessed in person before a quote.

A dolls hospital of more than twenty-five years, restoring wooden, porcelain, wax, composition, hard plastic and celluloid dolls, including smashed and cracked heads. Free estimates, and they will model and paint replacement parts rather than only fitting bought ones.

A one-person bear restorer in West Sussex, run by Kate Healey, who works on antique, vintage and modern teddy bears and also soft-bodied dolls. The common jobs are pads and paws, noses, joints, ears and replacing lost arms or legs, taken in by post or by an arranged visit.

A dry cleaner in Goldsworth Park with a dedicated soft toy cleaning service, twenty-five years in the trade, and free collection and delivery across west Surrey. Cleaning only: they do repairs and alterations on clothing, not on toys.

Julie Tatchell and Amanda Middleditch, the teddy bear ladies from the BBC's The Repair Shop. Their own site is now about being authors, podcasters and broadcasters, with no repair service, no process and no way to book, and that is not neglect. In September 2025 they trained the Johnsons team who now run soft toy repair across every John Lewis shop and 200 Waitrose shops. They moved from doing the work to teaching it.

A doll, teddy and toy repair service run by Hilary and Dave that stopped taking repairs in 2009. The site is now left up as a reference of question-and-answer pages about doll and teddy problems, and it points visitors to an Other Hospitals page instead.

An art conservation studio that takes dolls and teddy bears as a matter of course, working to conservation standards rather than repair ones. They rebuilt a 1939 papier mache and cloth monkey called Salty from photographs, including a new pipe, scarf, jacket, hat and concertina. Free quotation, nationwide.

A teddy bear restorer run by Carol Ann Zawadzki, working on vintage bears for private owners, dealers and teddy bear museums in the UK and abroad. The work runs from surface cleaning through replacing eyes, paw pads and nose stitching to remaking missing limbs, priced case by case.

Soft play repair and maintenance county by county across England, quoting free and without obligation. The only business in the bulk tier that leads with repair rather than cleaning.

Since 24 September 2025, every John Lewis shop except Swindon and Canary Wharf, plus more than 200 Waitrose shops, takes soft toys in over the counter for a deep clean and minor repairs. Run by Johnsons, the Timpson Group cleaner, whose staff were trained for it by the two Repair Shop teddy bear ladies. A published price list by size, which almost nobody else in this trade offers.

Laura, who has written the clearest explanation of the process of any listing here. She prices every task separately so you can choose by budget, asks about deadlines up front, tells you there is usually a short waiting list, and says outright that she knows it feels daunting to hand your doll to a stranger.

A two-person craft business, mainly Katie, that repairs modern plush toys alongside making leather notebooks and other goods. Jellycat toys are what they see most, but they also take vintage and antique bears and Pelham puppets, and they charge by the hour rather than by a fixed price list.

Joanna, thirty years of collecting antique dolls behind her, repairing and restoring them for other people. Her statement of intent is the plainest here: no doll is unrepairable in my eyes, and every precious doll has a story to tell.

Sasha Kleshcheva makes teddy bears by hand and runs a one-person bear hospital that has taken in bears and other soft toys from the UK and abroad. Her stated aim is to restore a bear rather than change it, and the hospital is currently full and not taking new patients until September 2026.

Servicing, maintenance and repair of sensory soft play areas and sensory integration rooms across the UK. Aimed at spaces built for people with sensory needs rather than at play centres, which is a different job and a different standard.

A soft toy restoration service, also called a Plush Clinic, that works by post: you send photos, get a quote, then post the toy. Listed work is seam stitching, replacing stuffing, eye and limb restoration, fabric patching and deep cleaning, all done by hand.

A one-person postal repair business run by Charlotte, who trained with Bear It In Mind from 2015 and works on bears and soft toys of any age or condition, including plush, mohair and sheepskin. Her books are closed at the moment, she only takes items by post, and she will not quote from photographs.

A soft toy repair service that offers cleaning, mending and re-stuffing of teddy bears and plush toys. The site describes hand repairs to tears, loose seams and missing parts, and re-stuffing flat or lumpy toys, but gives no address, phone number, prices or turnaround times.

A teddy bear hospital offering repair and restoration of teddy bears and soft toys, from a simple clean through to full restoration. They say they know vintage bears well, but the site gives no prices, no turnaround times, no address and no phone number.

Daniel East, restoring vintage bears and soft toys alongside a shop of rescued ones looking for homes. Bad nose damage, a chopped-off leg, a client's thirty-year-old something that was not a bear for once. He writes openly about there being levels to restoration, and about coming back from a sickness break. Enquiries go through Facebook Messenger only.

Listed in the We Are Repairs toy repairer index, in Berkshire. We have not read a website for them, so we cannot tell you what they take on, what they refuse, or what it costs. The contact details are theirs and are published here as the directory published them. Ring before you rely on any of it: of the entries in these same lists that did give a website, nearly half pointed at a domain that no longer exists.

Listed in the We Are Repairs toy repairer index, in Berkshire. We have not read a website for them, so we cannot tell you what they take on, what they refuse, or what it costs. The contact details are theirs and are published here as the directory published them. Ring before you rely on any of it: of the entries in these same lists that did give a website, nearly half pointed at a domain that no longer exists.

Listed in the We Are Repairs toy repairer index, in Buckinghamshire. We have not read a website for them, so we cannot tell you what they take on, what they refuse, or what it costs. The contact details are theirs and are published here as the directory published them. Ring before you rely on any of it: of the entries in these same lists that did give a website, nearly half pointed at a domain that no longer exists.

Listed in the We Are Repairs toy repairer index, in Cheshire. We have not read a website for them, so we cannot tell you what they take on, what they refuse, or what it costs. The contact details are theirs and are published here as the directory published them. Ring before you rely on any of it: of the entries in these same lists that did give a website, nearly half pointed at a domain that no longer exists.

Listed in the We Are Repairs toy repairer index, in County Down. We have not read a website for them, so we cannot tell you what they take on, what they refuse, or what it costs. The contact details are theirs and are published here as the directory published them. Ring before you rely on any of it: of the entries in these same lists that did give a website, nearly half pointed at a domain that no longer exists.

Listed in the We Are Repairs toy repairer index, in Derbyshire. We have not read a website for them, so we cannot tell you what they take on, what they refuse, or what it costs. The contact details are theirs and are published here as the directory published them. Ring before you rely on any of it: of the entries in these same lists that did give a website, nearly half pointed at a domain that no longer exists.

Listed in the We Are Repairs toy repairer index, in Derbyshire. We have not read a website for them, so we cannot tell you what they take on, what they refuse, or what it costs. The contact details are theirs and are published here as the directory published them. Ring before you rely on any of it: of the entries in these same lists that did give a website, nearly half pointed at a domain that no longer exists.

Listed in the We Are Repairs toy repairer index, in Devon. We have not read a website for them, so we cannot tell you what they take on, what they refuse, or what it costs. The contact details are theirs and are published here as the directory published them. Ring before you rely on any of it: of the entries in these same lists that did give a website, nearly half pointed at a domain that no longer exists.

Listed in the We Are Repairs toy repairer index, in Devon. We have not read a website for them, so we cannot tell you what they take on, what they refuse, or what it costs. The contact details are theirs and are published here as the directory published them. Ring before you rely on any of it: of the entries in these same lists that did give a website, nearly half pointed at a domain that no longer exists.

Listed in the We Are Repairs toy repairer index, in Devon. We have not read a website for them, so we cannot tell you what they take on, what they refuse, or what it costs. The contact details are theirs and are published here as the directory published them. Ring before you rely on any of it: of the entries in these same lists that did give a website, nearly half pointed at a domain that no longer exists.

Listed in the We Are Repairs toy repairer index, in Devon. We have not read a website for them, so we cannot tell you what they take on, what they refuse, or what it costs. The contact details are theirs and are published here as the directory published them. Ring before you rely on any of it: of the entries in these same lists that did give a website, nearly half pointed at a domain that no longer exists.

Listed in the We Are Repairs toy repairer index, in Dorset. We have not read a website for them, so we cannot tell you what they take on, what they refuse, or what it costs. The contact details are theirs and are published here as the directory published them. Ring before you rely on any of it: of the entries in these same lists that did give a website, nearly half pointed at a domain that no longer exists.

Listed in the We Are Repairs toy repairer index, in Gloucestershire. We have not read a website for them, so we cannot tell you what they take on, what they refuse, or what it costs. The contact details are theirs and are published here as the directory published them. Ring before you rely on any of it: of the entries in these same lists that did give a website, nearly half pointed at a domain that no longer exists.

Listed in the We Are Repairs toy repairer index, in Gwynedd. We have not read a website for them, so we cannot tell you what they take on, what they refuse, or what it costs. The contact details are theirs and are published here as the directory published them. Ring before you rely on any of it: of the entries in these same lists that did give a website, nearly half pointed at a domain that no longer exists.

Listed in the We Are Repairs toy repairer index, in Kent. We have not read a website for them, so we cannot tell you what they take on, what they refuse, or what it costs. The contact details are theirs and are published here as the directory published them. Ring before you rely on any of it: of the entries in these same lists that did give a website, nearly half pointed at a domain that no longer exists.

Listed in the We Are Repairs toy repairer index, in Merseyside. We have not read a website for them, so we cannot tell you what they take on, what they refuse, or what it costs. The contact details are theirs and are published here as the directory published them. Ring before you rely on any of it: of the entries in these same lists that did give a website, nearly half pointed at a domain that no longer exists.

Listed in the We Are Repairs toy repairer index, in Nottinghamshire. We have not read a website for them, so we cannot tell you what they take on, what they refuse, or what it costs. The contact details are theirs and are published here as the directory published them. Ring before you rely on any of it: of the entries in these same lists that did give a website, nearly half pointed at a domain that no longer exists.

Listed in the We Are Repairs toy repairer index, in Nottinghamshire. We have not read a website for them, so we cannot tell you what they take on, what they refuse, or what it costs. The contact details are theirs and are published here as the directory published them. Ring before you rely on any of it: of the entries in these same lists that did give a website, nearly half pointed at a domain that no longer exists.

Listed in the We Are Repairs toy repairer index, in Scottish Borders. We have not read a website for them, so we cannot tell you what they take on, what they refuse, or what it costs. The contact details are theirs and are published here as the directory published them. Ring before you rely on any of it: of the entries in these same lists that did give a website, nearly half pointed at a domain that no longer exists.

Listed in the We Are Repairs toy repairer index, in Surrey. We have not read a website for them, so we cannot tell you what they take on, what they refuse, or what it costs. The contact details are theirs and are published here as the directory published them. Ring before you rely on any of it: of the entries in these same lists that did give a website, nearly half pointed at a domain that no longer exists.

Listed in the We Are Repairs toy repairer index, in Surrey. We have not read a website for them, so we cannot tell you what they take on, what they refuse, or what it costs. The contact details are theirs and are published here as the directory published them. Ring before you rely on any of it: of the entries in these same lists that did give a website, nearly half pointed at a domain that no longer exists.

Listed in the We Are Repairs toy repairer index, in Sussex. We have not read a website for them, so we cannot tell you what they take on, what they refuse, or what it costs. The contact details are theirs and are published here as the directory published them. Ring before you rely on any of it: of the entries in these same lists that did give a website, nearly half pointed at a domain that no longer exists.

Listed in the We Are Repairs toy repairer index, in Sussex. We have not read a website for them, so we cannot tell you what they take on, what they refuse, or what it costs. The contact details are theirs and are published here as the directory published them. Ring before you rely on any of it: of the entries in these same lists that did give a website, nearly half pointed at a domain that no longer exists.

Listed in the We Are Repairs toy repairer index, in Sussex. We have not read a website for them, so we cannot tell you what they take on, what they refuse, or what it costs. The contact details are theirs and are published here as the directory published them. Ring before you rely on any of it: of the entries in these same lists that did give a website, nearly half pointed at a domain that no longer exists.

Listed in the We Are Repairs toy repairer index, in Sussex. We have not read a website for them, so we cannot tell you what they take on, what they refuse, or what it costs. The contact details are theirs and are published here as the directory published them. Ring before you rely on any of it: of the entries in these same lists that did give a website, nearly half pointed at a domain that no longer exists.

Listed in the We Are Repairs toy repairer index, in Swansea. We have not read a website for them, so we cannot tell you what they take on, what they refuse, or what it costs. The contact details are theirs and are published here as the directory published them. Ring before you rely on any of it: of the entries in these same lists that did give a website, nearly half pointed at a domain that no longer exists.

Listed in the We Are Repairs toy repairer index, in Yorkshire. We have not read a website for them, so we cannot tell you what they take on, what they refuse, or what it costs. The contact details are theirs and are published here as the directory published them. Ring before you rely on any of it: of the entries in these same lists that did give a website, nearly half pointed at a domain that no longer exists.