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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 […]
Read More →It’s the day of the opening of our CARAS partnership ‘Stay With Love’ exhibition at The Sound Lounge in Tooting – 210 Upper Tooting Road, SW17 7EJ All very welcome, and here are the timings: 4:00-5:30pm Pop-up session making and crafts for all the family 7:00pm Doors open, come and enjoy the exhibition 7:30pm Formal […]
Read More →Two updates about our partnership project with the local charity CARAS and the refugees and asylum-seekers they support. 1 ‘Stay With Love’ Exhibition during October ’17 at The Sound Lounge in Tooting. The Sound Lounge, 210-212 Upper Tooting Road, TootingSW17 7EW We’re all thrilled that The Sound Lounge is hosting ‘Stay With Love’ – an exhibition […]
Read More →The 10th Tooting Foodival was only possible because of many volunteers’ help and donations. Thank you all! Click here to see the details. Well over forty people helped on the day, plus many in preparation and in the long tail of follow up. Each of these people and organisations made the Foodival happen, and while […]
Read More →Top Tooting Cook, the Foodival’s fun competition was ably co-ordinated by ‘firm but fair’ Belinda. We had a record-breaking number of entries.Here are the dishes – photographed during the judging, so some dishes have begun to be sampled. These are dishes crying out to be tasted (some people had to be held back…): There’s a […]
Read More →Well that was fun! What a great event the 10th Foodival proved to be. Using Hereward Road beside Mushkil Aasaan gave the event a really good flow. Outside, Volker manfully orchestrated the Big Feast, feeding the masses with sustainable locally grown fruit and vegetables, serenaded by the different artists on the Sound Lounge stage. Bees drew […]
Read More →So what’s happening at this year’s Foodival? Hopefully you’ve been keeping up with our recent blog posts and will have an idea, but for a handy print out or download version here’s our plan of the events. It’s not set in stone, some of the timings may move a little, don’t worry just come along […]
Read More →All welcome to celebrate local food, cooking and feasting right in the heart of Tooting on Saturday 16th from 11:00 to 5:00, at the combined venues of the hall at Mushkil Aasaan 220 – 222 Upper Tooting Road, SW17 7EW and in Hereward Road next door. Foodival music update:The Sound Lounge has put together a […]
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