Wheels are turning down in Tooting town, the inaugural Tour de Tooting is barely a revolution away. We still need volunteers 12.30-3pm to help with road ‘openings’ for the parade. If you can help please EMAIL TTTOnce upon a time … in a town called Tooting, there was big windmill whose sails had not turned for […]
Read More →For over a year TTT has been facilitating Rooting in Tooting project activities with diverse groups of all ages via the Tooting charity CARAS (Community Action for Refugees and Asylum-Seekers). Yesterday we accompanied a group from the CARAS Youth Club to explore the build of the Border Control show garden at the RHS Hampton Court […]
Read More →Tour de Tooting Creative Director Lucy Neal With less than 2 weeks until Tour de Tooting, are you ready for a wonderful wheeled parade through Tooting, followed by a sharing picnic on Fishponds Fields? Pop 3rd July in your diary! Maybe you’ve found one of these mysterious #tourdetooting tags on your wheels? #tourdetooting Maybe […]
Read More →Here’s the report from the seventh weekend of our Growing Tooting ‘grow your own food’ local fortnightly classes. We’ve been offering these in Balham, Tooting and Wandsworth since April. The common themes this week have been exploring more ambitious planting schemes, visiting other local gardens, and looking at forest gardening. So: here’s a group planting […]
Read More →Broken electrical or electronic items that you don’t want to throw away? Good at fixing or mending stuff or would like to learn how? Come to a Restart Party! and help keep stuff out of landfill. The next Restart Party in Tooting is this coming Tuesday 21st June at 7pm. Restart Parties are the antidote to […]
Read More →Celebrating eight years of Transition Town Tooting! Thanks to everyone who came to our Annual Celebration Last Friday, we turned our AGM into ACE – our Annual Celebratory Extravaganza – to share and celebrate what we’ve achieved, and to look forward to 2016 and beyond. Volunteers, beneficiaries, partners, project leaders, friends, neighbours and interested local […]
Read More →Could you be a leader in making, could you become a Prime Pedalista? Hello Pedalistas* Tour De Tooting is fast approaching. Pedalistas of Tooting will be looking to get making and decorating throughout June in preparation for the Parade of Wheels on the 3rd July. This Tuesday, Tour De Tooting are hosting a workshop of […]
Read More →Last weekend we enjoyed the sixth crop of fortnightly ‘triple-header’ Growing Tooting workshops – one each in Balham, Tooting and Wandsworth. (Plus there’s the fourth series: an extra Wandsworth group running on the intervening weekends).As ever, thanks to Martin for the energy and co-ordination! What did we do this week?As a comprehensive gardening topic we […]
Read More →There is a real buzz of excitement in the air, a sense of something big about to happen in the streets of Tooting as the launch date nears and the Grand Parade of Wheels takes shape. From now until 3rd July we will be holding ‘Reinvent Your Wheels!’ workshops and cycle-themed events to celebrate the […]
Read More →Early in May we held a delightful celebration of three years’ shared experience of the outdoor learning project between Gatton Primary School and Tooting Community Garden. You can look at that blog report by clicking here. The sun shone on us all and lit the mosaic made at the school with every pupil involved. Among the natural images […]
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