This First Tuesday event was about wellbeing. Belinda and Hilary talked about events that are being offered locally this year, including The Treasuring Tooting walk and pop-up kindness activities being run throughout Tooting. Conversations among the group identified that satisfying our basic needs such as safety and a home were essential; including having comfortable things […]
Read More →On a rainy afternoon in Tooting last Saturday, preparations continued for decorating the piñata bee which will be part of the ‘Treasuring Tooting’ wellbeing walk on May 12th (scroll down in this blog for more on the piñata and on the walk…) What’s it going to be like? How big will it bee? More images to come […]
Read More →Here are the notes from the April Core Group Meeting
Read More →On Tuesday evening, around 80 people gathered at Wimbledon’s St. Mark’s Church to ask four of the candidates for the London Assembly what they would do if they got into power on May 3rd. The candidates fielding questions were Leonie Cooper (Labour), Shas Sheehan (Liberal Democrat), Richard Tracey (Conservative and current Assembly Member for Merton […]
Read More →Two workshops on 21 and 22 April provided lots of lovely ideas for the design of the Tooting Pound. It’s early days for the community currency but that didn’t stop the heated debates about who should be on the notes – should it be Wolfie (Citizen) Smith or Nurse Edith Cavell on the T£1; Hester […]
Read More →The ‘Monthly Do’ on Sunday April 22nd at Wandsworth Borough Council’s Pump House Gallery in Battersea Park saw several of us from Transition Tooting join with gallery staff to offer a drop-in afternoon about on ‘Growing Successfully in the City’. Yes – that broad topic included different prompts for the ways ‘urban growing’ is expressed: […]
Read More →Local artist team Jeni Walker and Leon Lawes have begun work to create a giant bee piñata that will process with Treasuring Tooting, the Transition Town Tooting wellbeing walk, on the 12th May. At a point on the walk the pinata will be smashed open in the traditional manner, what goodies will come forth is […]
Read More →We are very pleased to be able to share details of 4 events that are coming up between the weekend of 21+22 April and the 12th of May Help shape the Tooting Pound Design workshops: Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd April, both 11am-1pm Sprout, 74 Moyser Road, Furzedown, London SW16 6SQ The Tooting Pound is […]
Read More →Transition Town Tooting hold regular planning meetings – all are welcome. To get a flavour of the kind of things we discuss see HERE the first graphically recorded meeting notes, from our last meeting on the 20th March. This move towards the pictorial – done by Jeni Walker – was inspired by Alice Maggs’ graphic documentation of Carbon […]
Read More →In the post below on ‘Community Approaches to the Green Deal’, we mention the video that was being made to accompany the project.Now it’s finished and ready to enjoy on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNRx6tNFG8U It’s seven minutes long – do have a look, and keep an eye out for the local locations and stars!The partners in […]
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