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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.