A place to gather things that have no category!
Every year the wonderful Balham and Tooting Community Association hold a community awards – the BATCA Heroes – to celebrate all the fantastic individuals and groups who do so much to support our community. This year the newly founded Resilience Tooting had the opportunity to ‘pop-up’ at the event – we were asked to bring […]
Read More →All Photos credit: George Dixon What a day! On 9 May 2026, the United Reformed Church in Rookstone Road buzzed with energy, creativity, and a shared passion for making Tooting a better place. TootingCAN, organized by Transition Town Tooting (TTT) and funded by the Wandsworth Grant Fund, brought together 108 participants from all walks of […]
Read More →Sewing and Sanctuary is a women’s sewing group which was founded in May 2022. It is a Transition Town Tooting project run in partnership with Oxfam Tooting. We are a place of sanctuary where women of refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds and women from the local community meet, stitch and chat. We enjoy learning together, […]
Read More →Having been inspired by Fishponds Bioblitz we decided to do our own and to start with looking out for our garden animals. A BioBlitz is defined as a short, intensive period of time during which a group of people find and identify as many species of plants, animals, fungi and other organisms as possible within […]
Read More →That is the plan anyway. How did it come about? Many years ago a previous community garden group grew wheat and managed to bake one loaf of bread from it. So why not try it again? Inspired by one of our members who was asking for a source of getting wheat for her garden we […]
Read More →Whether it is cooking, growing, sewing, pickling, soldering or making : the community of Tooting has an abundance of skills and talents. On 15th March 2025 we came together for our third Tooting CAN! to share skills, meet our neighbours have some fun! Dive into our blog below telling the story of the day (with […]
Read More →Read all about Tooting Repair Club launch, Repair Week 2025 and Leaping out of Windows without fear from local fixer Dermot – and email us at repairclub.org@gmail.com or visit the Tooting Repair Club web page to hear about future sessions. The first rule of Repair Club is: “You do not talk about Repair Club” So like […]
Read More →What is Town Anywhere, Tooting? Town Anywhere Tooting is a large-scale, participatory, community visioning experience – bringing together people from across Tooting to ‘rehearse the future’ of our vibrant community. Monday 21st October, Patidar Samaj Hall, 26B Tooting High Street 9.30 for 10.00 am prompt start – finishing 4.00pm. “Town Anywhere is an extraordinary exercise. […]
Read More →We have now reached our second anniversary and the sewing group is going from strength to strength with around 20 regular members. Last year we featured in two short Oxfam films marking Refugee Week and Secondhand September. Also marking the latter, we ran a sashiko denim patch workshop for 30 Oxfam shop managers and staff, […]
Read More →Thank you for taking a look at our Fundraising page. TTT always welcomes donations to help support our free-to-attend community activities. We are currently inviting donations in the memory of Rose deFalbe who died on 13 December 2024. Rose’s family have generously suggested that donations be made in her memory to support the Tooting Community Garden to […]
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