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1. Finding & following nearby groups
Now you’ve signed up to Restarters.net, you can follow local groups or create your own. Find your nearest group(s) and those you’ve joined already right on the Dashboard:
Or for the full list of groups nearby, click on the ‘Groups’ button in the top menu:
Clicking or tapping on the name of a group will take you to the group’s page. Here you’ll see the group’s description, key stats, events and members. You can also follow a group from this page by clicking the Follow Group button in the top right:
What does following a group mean?
Click the 
button to stay up to date with that group’s upcoming events
When you follow a group, you’ll receive a notification on the site whenever they organise an event. If you’ve chosen to receive emails about events and groups near you, these notifications will also be sent to your email address.
Want to change your email notification settings? You can edit your email preferences in your profile. Just click on your name in the top right and then on ‘your profile’ in the menu that appears. Then find Email Preferences on the right. Learn more about notifications here
2. Creating a group
If you’d like to add your repair group or start a new one, just click the ‘Create new group’ button at the top on the right of the Groups page:
The ‘Add a new group’ button takes you to a form where you can enter your group’s details. You can give your new group a name, website, location, description, time zone, phone number and logo/image:
Once your group has been created, it will need to be approved by an admin. This should take no longer than 2 working days and will generally be much quicker. After being approved, you can invite people to join via email, create events (which will automatically appear on our main website) and start inputting repair data to your events.
Are you starting a new group? We may be able to offer you a voucher for free repair tools from iFixit! See here for more details →
Inviting people to follow your group
You can invite anyone to follow your group (or to your events) by sending them an email straight from the group (or event) page. If you’d rather use a different kind of communication, such as a messaging app, or want to send a personal email, you can copy a special link that will bring them to your page.
Click/tap here to see how
Find the page of the group (or event) you want to share. Click on the ‘Group actions’ (or ‘Event actions’) button in the top right and then on ‘Invite volunteers’. A window will pop up where you can write an email inviting people to the group (or event). If you’d prefer to use a link, click on ‘Invite via shareable link’ in the top right. You can then copy the link and share it with anyone you want to invite:
If you want to find new volunteers for your group, you can also invite other people who use this site and are located in your area.
Click/tap here to see how
In the ‘Group Actions’ menu on your group’s page, click on the ‘Volunteers nearby’ option:
This will take you to a page where you can see a list of people located within 20 miles (32 km) of your group’s location. You can click on the ‘invite’ link for each person to send them an email invitation to follow your group. Note that people marked with a triangular exclamation mark symbolwill only receive a notification on the site (not via email) due to their notification preferences.
3. Editing a group
You can edit the details of your own repair group from the Group Actions menu on your group’s page:
Please note – your group’s information will appear publicly on the Restart Project website. Please refrain from sharing personal data that you would not want to be made available publicly.
In editing your group, you can change the following information:
- Your group’s name
- Your group’s website – this will appear on your group page
- Your group’s description
- Your group’s location
- Your group’s logo
Setting your group’s location
The Location field (next to the map) is used to geocode where your group appears on the map. Here, you can use a specific address, location, and/or postcode. The pin on the map will move when you input your address.
Describe your group
The description field is how people get to know your group. You can put in pictures, links, and rich format text.
Be sure to include practical information, such as:
- What does your group fix? Are you focused only on electronics, or do you also do other repairs (e.g. clothing, bicycles, furniture, broken hearts, etc.)?
- Do people have to RSVP for your events? If so, how do they register a place?
- How do groups get in touch with you if they have questions?
- Are you looking for volunteer help? If so, how would one volunteer with your group?
Make someone else a host of your group
A group can have multiple hosts. Hosts can edit the group and add/edit events. If you’d like to make one of your volunteers a host of your group, follow these steps:
- make sure they are actually following your group by checking the list of volunteers on your group’s page.
- when they appear in the list of volunteers, click the pencil icon next to their name and then on ‘Make host’.
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