We’re running a couple of fun events in the next week and you’re invited! Join us to reflect and celebrate 2015’s activities and achievements and let’s imagine what we might want to do for Tooting in 2016. Come along. Everyone welcome! Saturday, 07 November, 10am – 1pm, at Mushkil Aasaan, Upper Tooting Rd (next to […]
Read More →‘It’s all about waste’ That’s how Gill Perkins, CEO of the Wandsworth Oasis charity, describes the driving theme behind UPFest: the Oasis event on Tuesday November 3rd: All welcome to a fun and original evening: a catwalk and showcase of the joy of upcycling clothes and textiles. TTT are proud to be involved via Jeni Walker […]
Read More →Tooting has a new and delightful asset! A new garden balcony for all the staff at the Tooting campus of South Thames College opened today in memory of Mumney Olusanya (or Leo, as he was better known). Leo was Facilities Manager at the Tooting campus, and died on the 31st October 2013. Leo’s Garden […]
Read More →Back in September, Charles Whitehead wrote a preview piece about 8 of us from Tooting heading to the Transition Network International Conference at Seale Hayne, Newton Abbot. We went by caravan, car share and train arriving the day before, early afternoon and late at night. You can read all about how we contributed to the […]
Read More →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 […]
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