ABOUT US

Mari Jones is the founder and director of Leith Toy Hospital. She works on custom builds and repairs knitted toys. She also runs Picture to Puppet, our sister company which makes custom puppets and soft toys to order.

Angela is our doll department taskload co-ordinator, and makes the department run smoothly as well as carrying out beautiful doll repairs and sculpture work. She also works on our website and social media. 

As well as restoring Dolls, Our polymath Charlotte deals with mechanial and electrical issues, IT, health and safety and provides an all round agony aunt service. She is also an Expert on BBC1's The Repair Shop. You can watch her here restoring Haisi the doll's cracked and shattered celluloid limbs on The Repair Shop's VE Day Special.

Your dolls are in safe hands with restorer Joel whose main joys in life are sculpting and sausage rolls. With fine attention to details, he can bring back to life almost any doll. In addition to working at Leith Toy Hospital, Joel is a fine art sculptor and regularly exhibits his work around Scotland.

Aimee is our most longstanding teddy restorer. She trained as a costume maker and loves making tiny cute costumes for the teddies.

Luise works on both soft toy restoration and admin. Her favourite part of work is finding the perfect match for patches, and she does beautiful knit repairs. Besides her work for us, she also spins, dyes, knits and takes textile commissions.

Juan is our talented leather speacialist. He works miracles on all the leather, sheepskin and real fur teddies, however crusty they are when they arrive!

Marcello joined us after working on costume design in the film industry. Their meticulous toy restoration work makes sure the teddies all return home fighting fit and strong enough to withstand many more years of love and hugs.

Chelsea is our most mysterious staff member who is tirelessly working in the background to get all of our teddy quotes out to customers. You can sometimes find her working on a Saturday fixing teddies.

From answering your queries over the phone or the door to ensuring your toy safetly retuns to you. Karlyn helps to ensure that the Toy Hospital runs smoothly.

Trissdan started teddy restoration following his courses in fashion and textiles as well as theatrical costume. His love of sewing and stuffed animals has combined into an absolutley amazing adventure and a great addition to our team.

Introducing Yukari, our versatile teddy surgeon. Originally from Tokyo, her expertise in intricate hand sewing skills stems from a traditional Japanese method called 'unshin'. She finds joy in listening to the wonderful stories our clients share and is always ready to weave a bit of magic into every stitch.

Cloud is our part time HR manager . You'll often find her wandering around the studio making sure everyone who needs a cuddle gets one. Most of the time, though, she can be found sleeping on the job pretending to be one of the teddies.

Chaos is our trainee HR Manager. She loves to run around the studio and as her name suggests, cause chaos. You'll often find her playing with whichever tool has been dropped on the floor.