At the First Tuesday event on 1st November 2011 members of the local community came together to discuss the issues facing the local economy and what could be achieved by developing a community currency. Could a Tooting Pound become a reality? With one of highest levels of independent small businesses in the country, people like […]
Read More →This past week, two TTT supporters have made separate visits to the ‘Occupy London’ camp outside St Paul’s Cathedral. We asked them both to blog on our site to share their responses, and we hope you find their personal comments interesting and thought-provoking: Jesse’s experience:On Saturday I decided to see what all the fuss was about […]
Read More →I had been meaning to offer solidarity to the St Paul’s Camp for days and decided to spend last Wednesday there with the tenters. I arrived from the Tube fired up that someone is making a visible statement, to cry out against the extreme levels of inequality in our society. It has been too long.From the […]
Read More →What can we do together to support the local economy? What’s the value in developing a Tooting community currency? Many local businesses are in direct competition with national chains, the internet and large suburban shopping centres. When ‘big business’ wins, another local shop closes or a small business goes bankrupt. If you, like us, are […]
Read More →At short notice, Peter Horton of Gaia’s Company is offering an extra night of his current cabaret tour of songs, sketches and curiosity. Transition Town Tooting is delighted to support Gaia the Cabaret at the Wheatsheaf in Tooting Bec next Tues 25th Oct at 8pm. Come along!
Read More →Sunny weather brought 15 local people, including several Transition Tooting friends, onto Tooting Common to join a Wandsworth Arts ‘Big Draw’ event on Saturday 15th Oct: “Explore the hidden ecology of Tooting Common with artist Jacques Nimki through drawing, talking and walking.” We practiced ‘measured drawing’, collected leaves and seeds in paper boxes which we […]
Read More →More photos from Foodival now online – thank you Chuck! Keep ’em coming if you have any good ones! Meanwhile congratulations to Tim for the successful first run out of a Tooting currency at Foodival with our prototype pound, already known on the streets of south London as a “ROOT” (rather than a quid). Go […]
Read More →It was a great afternoon at the Tooting Foodival with local fruit and veg turned into delicious Tooting dishes by local restaurants and purchased by the Tooting public using a prototype Tooting currency the Tooting Root, all in our local Tooting Market! Thanks to all who helped out including restaurants Meze, Al Mirage, Lahore Karahi, […]
Read More →The Food Group are gearing up for Saturday’s Foodival, this year taking place at Tooting Market, 21-23 Tooting High St. All donations of fruit and veg to be magically transformed by local restuaurants into special low food mile Tooting dishes are very welcome. There’s a drop off at the Tooting Community Garden on Friday evening […]
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