Yesterday’s Story Telling at the Community Garden with Emily Duizend (Story Island) was a really successful event, raising £240 for Macmillan Cancer Support. The garden bedecked in bunting provided a tranquil setting for a crowd spanning the ages to relax, eat cakes and enjoy music from guitar and sitar, and stories from Emily and Vanessa. […]
Read More →Do come and have a closer look on Sunday 30th June for Emily’s outdoor storytelling and music session from 2:30-4:15 (see post below). There’s a good forecast!You’ll also see there is more to enjoy here….come along from 11:00 to 1:00 on the 30th if you would like to join in with the gardening. All welcome!
Read More →During the afternoon of Sunday 30th June, lay down your trowels and spades and come to the Tooting Community Garden for a couple of hours of outdoor storytelling, music and cakes with Emily Duizend and friends. (Emily also took part in the Garden Open Day on June 9th). All welcome, and we’ll be collecting for […]
Read More →The TTT Community Garden was open to the public as part of the Open Garden Squares weekend last Sunday. Regular garden volunteer, Jenny Teasdale, reports. It was a time of excitement and reflection when we opened the garden to celebrate our second birthday, linking up with Open Garden Squares weekend and the Chelsea Fringe. All the […]
Read More →On Saturday 15th June from 1200 – 400 the FLCZ will be celebrating its second birthday at the Furzedown Festival’s Big Day Out. This is located at Furzedown Recreation Ground, Ramsdale Road, Tooting SW17 9BP. Do stop by our stand and take part in our pop-up AGM: which simply means come along and discuss about what we’ve […]
Read More →We’re a surprising community vegetable garden within a hidden-away space that we share with exuberant native trees and plants, just off Tooting Common at 5 North Drive, SW16 1RN. Look out for the signs.It’s our second birthday this weekend, and do come and visit our Open Day on Sunday, being held in conjunction with two great London-wide initiatives: […]
Read More →The 2nd Day of Stories with Tooting Library was a surprising and experimental day. In the morning and afternoon we were transported from the centre of Tooting to join five storytellers’ worlds of wonder – crossing boundaries of geography and time from Norfolk to the Great Plains, with sound effects from the beautiful (the harmonica) to the funny (blowing custard through straws).In the middle […]
Read More →Keen community gardener and TTT “newbie”, Sel, provides her take on the AGM and 5th birthday party, a couple of weeks ago. Transition Town Tooting turned five on Monday April 29th and was celebrated in the Graveney and Meadow pub by various activists, organisers and volunteers. The seeds of this flourishing movement were planted in 2008 […]
Read More →I’ll let the pictures do the talking: 48 hours of local creative activities by the Wandle, in the Community Garden, on Tooting Common. The ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’ by the Wandle opposite the Ram Brewery ‘It’s a Wandleful Life’: opening the Wandsworth Arts Festival The climbing frame: freshly painted by Gatton School ‘Wish you were here’ […]
Read More →Saturday 4th May: ‘Wish You Were Here’ Crafty Pint’s workshop printing souvenirs of Tooting, at the Tooting Tram, 12:00 – 6:00. For details click click here Sunday 5th May: ‘The Jigsaw Horse’ storytelling and art promenade leaves Sprout Arts in Furzedown at 1:00. For details click here Saturday May 11th: Welcome to the 2nd Tooting […]
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