The Gatton School Community Garden project won a team award at the BATCA Community Heroes event held this evening at Jasmin’s nightclub in Tooting. Congratulations to nominees Chuck and Deputy Head Hoosen Randaree pictured above with Head Teacher Rifat Batool and their awards. Many thanks to everyone involved, especially the children!Some numbers about the project to date, since March 2013: Around 180 children […]
Read More →Even though the year is moving into winter, there’s six ‘new beginnings’ to share with you below. We hope to see you at these events – all welcome to come along and maybe try something new.. 1 On Tuesday 26th November we are starting to plan for the 2014 Tooting Foodival. Do join us and suggest some new […]
Read More →This week’s garden sessions with Gatton School saw two very different events. 60 Year 1 children went on a “Bear Hunt” set out by their teachers around the site, while a more regular group of 15 Year 6 children helped clear up autumn leaves, tidy up some beds for compost and continued with the Big […]
Read More →TTT likes to mix the global with the local where possible and in the last week, working with the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT), we have sent a copy of CAT’s Zero Carbon Britain report, via our helpful local MP Sadiq Khan, to every member of the shadow cabinet. The parcels were tied up with […]
Read More →One of the outdoor learning projects we are carrying out with Gatton School’s Year Six class is helping to build our combined rainwater catchment, shelter, suntrap, & garden bower in the Community Garden, between now and Christmas. Every week we’ll make progress, and share it here.Last week we cleared the site and dug the post holes.Yesterday […]
Read More →Our latest email has been sent out to subscribers – we hope it’s an enjoyable read (yes there is a lot there!). If you don’t receive it and would like to read a copy, please click here. Helena and Poppy: you wrote in and asked to be added to the list. I wrote back to you […]
Read More →Gatton School, located near Tooting Broadway, have been coming to the Community Garden every week since March as part of their Outdoor Learning programme. At the moment we have Year One and Year Six staff and children taking part, alongside TTT volunteers.Between now and the end of term in December, we are running two projects: the […]
Read More →TTT Co-chair, Belinda Sosinowicz blogs her first experiences of the new Foodcycle venture starting this month in Tooting. According to Foodcycle (2013) an estimated 400,000 tonnes of useable surplus food can be saved from UK supermarkets each year [1], or in other words, 400,000 tonnes of food is wasted by supermarkets that could otherwise be […]
Read More →TTT joined this bi-annual conference yesterday at the University Hospital, Coventry. The Wildflife Garden Forum is a voluntary UK-wide group including local and national projects and charities, researchers and academics, local authorities and government agencies. The Forum’s intention is to share evidence and practice about the value of wildlife to gardening (and people) – and vice versa. […]
Read More →I made a visit to the recently re-opened Work and Play Scrapstore in Blackshaw Rd this week. Running for over 20 years, the Scrapstore promotes the re-use of resources for environmental and community benefit and has a great collection of card, trimmings, fabric, plastics, carpet pieces and costumes. The Scrapstore is a registered charity and provides resources […]
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