Last chance this weekend to see the lovely Stay With Love exhibition of refugee and asylum-seeker arts and creativity at The Sound Lounge 210 Upper Tooting Road SW17 7EJ. CARAS and TTT will be there at the exhibition ready to share tea, ideas and conversation from 3:30pm to 5:00pm on Saturday 28th Oct Look for […]
Read More →Come and join our autumn festivities in Tooting Community Garden. Following on from our normal open gardening session (11am-1pm), we will celebrating all things pumpkin – you can carve your own creations into the pumpkins, help make some fresh pumpkin soup and learn how to make delicious damper bread over a fire. All activities are […]
Read More →This Saturday 21st October sees the first International Repair Day and happily we are hosting another Restart Party with the Restart Project from 2pm at Mushkil Aasaan, 222 Upper Tooting Rd, by Nandos. All are welcome to this free event. International Repair Day will be a chance to shout about the importance of repair and […]
Read More →Here is this year’s montage of growers from the Tooting Foodival 2017, the 10th TTT Foodival – wow, the first one only seemed like the other day! We are really grateful to all our donors of fruit and vegetables without whom the festival could not happen. More on the Foodival blog about this years event […]
Read More →Did you try the sour plums at the Foodival? ‘These sour plums are known as shazifim yerakim in Israel, gojeh sabz in Iran, jarareng in Lebanon, erik in Turkey, and janarek in Jordan.’ These plums were saved after pruning the Greengage trees that grow in the tooting community garden as part of a pruning workshop. […]
Read More →This Friday 13th October as a part of Pollinator Paths Wandsworth project, all invited to a Moth Recording Walk at Putney Heath. This is a fun mix of citizen science and being outdoors in the city. If you have never seen live moths close up, it’s a great opportunity. Poplar Hawk moth in summer Timing? […]
Read More →On October 3rd the opening night of the Stay With Love exhibition at The Sound Lounge in Tooting saw a very diverse group of 75 join in to celebrate the exhibition. There were teenagers, families and young children from the asylum-seeking and refugee community who are served by CARAS. There were many of the CARAS […]
Read More →Have you got electrical or electronic items that you don’t want to throw away? Got a sewing machine that is broken or you’re not sure how to use? Have a favourite piece of clothing that needs mending or altering and you’d like to learn how? Simply good at fixing and mending stuff? Fancy a cup […]
Read More →October is our six-month anniversary as your Pips! As well as marking our half birthday, it’s a chance to catch a breath after the huge successes of the Tooting Twirl pop-up village green, our 10th annual Foodival sustainable food festival and countless other brilliant events this year. October’s meeting is about celebrating, checking in and […]
Read More →We’re thrilled that the Stay With Love exhibition has moved from concept to reality alongside our partners CARAS and The Sound Lounge. We experienced so much energy, creativity and patience from all the volunteers and staff involved in this experiment: Thank You! We hung the show on the 2nd October, and then the exhibition opening […]
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