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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.