Last Saturday, TTT hosted another Restart Party with the Restart Project at Mushkil Aasaan in Tooting. As usual the brilliant volunteer repairers did their utmost to help prevent an assortment of electrical goods from laptops to kettles to cameras from going to landfill. It can be scary to see your beloved item taken apart (see […]
Read More →TTT celebrated its 7th birthday at the 2015 AGM on Monday. After a Tooting Quiz, including ICU nurses from St George’s who provided a tie-breaker, we heard a review of the last year and ideas for future vision and direction. New co-chairs were elected for the next two years, congratulations to Richard & Jenny, and […]
Read More →The TTT AGM 2015 takes place next Monday 27th April in the back bit at Graveney & Meadow, 40 Mitcham Rd SW17 9NA. The night’s festivities will include a Tooting Quiz with prizes, brief updates on current TTT projects and ideas, some official business re finances and electing new officers (including co-chairs & secretary), plus […]
Read More →Do you have an electrical or electronic item that needs fixing? Something broken you don’t want to throw away? Challenge the culture of built-in obsolescence and take back control of your electronic stuff…. The Restart Project, a London-based social enterprise that encourages and empowers people to use their electrical and electronics longer, are running regular […]
Read More →Last Saturday TTT hosted Looking Out For Tooting, a workshop designed to ‘celebrate the people and groups that care for Tooting and its future’. Members of over 20 local Tooting organisations and groups took part.See the list of participating groups here, and the invitation here. We aimed to focus on four areas: 1. to meet others and […]
Read More →This post is a round-up of eight imaginative projects and developments that are happening now, in Tooting and beyond. It’s a selection of what we’ve spotted in the past month. My title comes from Paul Allen of Zero Carbon Britain at the Centre for Alternative Technology, one of the contributors to Playing for Time (see below). […]
Read More →This is a reminder that Weds 8th is the April Meet & Make! Meet & Make is a monthly invitation to ”make time for making” in our busy lives. On offer this month, at no cost, is the chance to sit and relax with the restorative craft of hand sewing, using beads. You can create […]
Read More →Tooting Field Days are local safaris based in and around Tooting; a chance to get outside and play, walk or make something. We can’t promise lions and zebras but you might discover something you’ve never seen before, think something new or have a mini adventure! Tooting Field Days will happen every month on a Sunday […]
Read More →‘Our enormously productive economy demands we make consumption a way of life’. This is a quote from 1955 on the wall of an exhibition now showing at the Lightbox Gallery in Woking.A toilet brush is the unlikely centre-piece of the exhibition. Its description reads ‘This is a well designed toilet brush from Addis bought in […]
Read More →Our current outdoor learning project with Gatton School is to build a greenhouse in the community garden made from recycled plastic bottles (see picture below – this is what we hope the finished greenhouse will look like). The year 6 pupils come to the garden for an hour a week to work on this and […]
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