For the past 2 1/2 years, TTT has been running outdoor learning classes with pupils from Gatton, a local primary school in the community garden. From weekly sessions with Reception and Year 1 classes, to 7-week projects with the Year 6 students, the classes encompass a huge range of cross-curriculum learning, developing new skills and […]
Read More →Mena participating in the garden Earlier in the year, we had a visit by an MSc student from Edinburgh called Mena Grossmann. Mena, as she describes below, used Transition Town Tooting as a case study to explore diversity within the Transition Town Movement for her MSc research project.For us and the Transition Movement as a […]
Read More →The long-debated tax of 5 pence per single-use plastic bag becomes law from the 5th October in England, and applies to ‘free’ bags from larger shops and chains (enterprises employing more than 250 people). Smaller shops can also charge if they wish. The sums charged go into pots for charity…so there are some complex processes, […]
Read More →Today we hosted the third workshop in the Urban Heat research project. This is an 18-month research process into community-led responses to urban heatwaves, with a particular focus on the local impact on vulnerable people. The research is led by the Policy Studies Institute at the University of Westminster, with funding from the Joseph Rowntree […]
Read More →TTT is delighted to launch Growing Tooting, a new project to promote community gardening in Tooting and nearby neighbourhoods. This is a year-long project which aims to attract more people into growing healthy local food. You may be familiar with some of the benefits of community growing, for instance: Socialising with a shared interest Improving […]
Read More →Broken something & reluctant to throw it away?The Restart Project, encourage and empower people to use their electrical and electronics longer! They are back in Tooting on Saturday 26th September – 2.30 – 5.30pm at Mushkil Aasaan, 220 – 222 Upper Tooting Road, SW17 7EW (next to Nandos), so do come along! Do note that […]
Read More →Over on the Foodival blog we have been rounding up the stories from this year’s sustainable food event in Tooting. There’s a Balham woman who grew bananas … Bananas grown by Susan in her Balham back garden And Sophie was the new face winning the prestige title of Top Tooting Cook 2015 with her beautiful […]
Read More →You may know that TTT is part of a network of Transition Towns round the world – community groups of all shapes and sizes who are each taking local action on environmental and social sustainability. TTT’s motto is Making Change in How We Live, Where We Live, in Light of Climate Change. That encourages a […]
Read More →Thank you to every veg and fruit donor, every restaurant cook, every great musician, every ugly vegetable, every volunteer, stall holder, artist, sponsor and Top Tooting Cook who made Foodival 2015 a fantastic celebration of home grown food cooked by local cooks. So many great connections made in a melting pot of south London’s food […]
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