On Sunday 17th July, Jeni Walker and Richard Couldrey continued with the 4th year of our annual pattern of work with the National Citizen Service through “The Challenge” – a personal development and social integration programme offered to 15 – 17 year olds which includes a project focused day with a Charity or Community Group. […]
Read More →In the final local growing sessions in Balham, Tooting and Wandsworth we celebrated progress and looked at what comes next now the programme is complete. We discussed harvesting and preparing food (and bringing any surpluses to the Tooting Foodival), and asked about what the participants might need next in their growing journey. Suggestions so far: ‘local […]
Read More →On the 30th June CARAS Youth Club members travelled to the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show to help with the build of the Border Control Concept Garden. It was a fascinating visit – to see the TTT blog post, click here.Now the garden is finished and open to the public. The Youth Club paid […]
Read More →Delighted that last weekend’s Tour de Tooting makes the front page of the Wandsworth Guardian this week! With this report on page 3 And this is Emma Brazell’s short reportage film of the day on youtube.
Read More →In 2015 TTT helped facilitate a research project by the University of Westminster all about the impact of urban heatwaves – for the details please see past blog posts by clicking here on Urban Heat. TTT worked with the researchers and with many local partners in Tooting: voluntary and community groups plus borough-level and statutory […]
Read More →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 →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 →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 […]
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