Meet your neighbours, learn something new and celebrate our amazing community here in Tooting! Whether it’s cooking, growing, sewing, singing, dancing, making or mending and more: the community of Tooting has an abundance of skills and talents which also make us stronger together. TootingCAN2026: A Day of Skill-Sharing, Connection, and Hope What a day! On […]
Read More →A fabulous time was had by all at the Sew It, Show Picnic and Parade. The event was a celebration of slow fashion featuring sewing, stitching, crafting, fixing, mending and swapping – a picnic and a parade! The event bought together indivduals and community groups from across Tooting with workshops from Work & Play Scrapstore, […]
Read More →Saturday 24th June 20 All Saints Gardens Come dressed in something you’ve made yourself, or repaired or bought in a charity shop, get ready to parade or support; join a sewing workshop or watch expert knitters and don’t forget to bring a picnic. Our Share & Repair group are thrilled that the team behind Fixing […]
Read More →Would you like to join local residents for a programme of facilitated workshops exploring our responses to the climate crisis -personally and collectively? Living with the climate crisis is a programme of workshops which offer a mix of psychologically-based groupwork and experiential learning which support people in managing their feelings, experiences and actions towards this complex issue. Anxiety, […]
Read More →Between 2011 – 2018 Transition Tooting led several rounds of Carbon Conversations – involving over 80 local residents. The facilitated workshops enabled individuals to explore the areas of our lives where we can reduce our own carbon emissions: travel, food, domestic energy, consumption and waste. A quote from a participant: “The beauty of Carbon Conversations is the optimism, […]
Read More →The group is really flourishing with about a dozen of us meeting above Oxfam every Friday morning.Alongside variously themed sessions, for a few months we have been working on a commission fromWandsworth Carers to make a banner for their new Iris Cafe, a group for people with dementia and theircarers which meets monthly in the […]
Read More →What a fantastic afternoon of fixing we had in our new Balham venue – St Mary’s Church. Our trusty fixers tackled coffee machines and grinders, toasters, amplifiers, radios, hedge trimmers and even a keyboard! Check out these fantastic pictures of some of the day’s successful fixes…. We were especially thrilled as three new fixers joined […]
Read More →A warm invitation to join us at our 2022 *Annual Celebratory Extravaganza Saturday April 30th – 2 – 4.30 pm Mushkil Aasaan, 222 Upper Tooting Road, London SW17 9LN Our last ‘in-person’ ACE was held back in March 2019 – how much has happened since then in your life, our community and the world – […]
Read More →On Saturday 5th February the Seed and Vegetable swap group had it’s first live seed swap event. This event was to enable local gardeners to meet, have a chat with each other, bring seeds to share with others and pick up seeds they would like to grow. They were also able to have a go […]
Read More →As part of Repairfest, on Friday 12th November, TTT hosted an enjoyable sewing box workshop for women refugees from CARAS, in the hospitable surroundings of Mushkil Aasaan. Most of the materials for the workshop were sourced from the Work and Play Scrapstore. Supplies included a variety of small boxes, fabric, ribbons, braids and felts, as […]
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