Tour de Tooting in the Press
Delighted that last weekend’s Tour de Tooting makes the front page of the Wandsworth Guardian this week! With this report on page 3 And this is Emma Brazell’s short reportage film of the day on youtube.
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3 current and vivid research projects about climate change and UK communities – Tooting included
In 2015 TTT helped facilitate a research project by the University of Westminster all about the impact of urban heatwaves – for the details please see past blog posts by clicking here on Urban Heat. TTT worked with the researchers and with many local partners in Tooting: voluntary and community groups plus borough-level and statutory […]
Read More →Tour de Tooting is THIS WEEKEND
Wheels are turning down in Tooting town, the inaugural Tour de Tooting is barely a revolution away. We still need volunteers 12.30-3pm to help with road ‘openings’ for the parade. If you can help please EMAIL TTTOnce upon a time … in a town called Tooting, there was big windmill whose sails had not turned for […]
Read More →Report from the seventh weekend of Growing Tooting ‘grow your own food’ classes
Here’s the report from the seventh weekend of our Growing Tooting ‘grow your own food’ local fortnightly classes. We’ve been offering these in Balham, Tooting and Wandsworth since April. The common themes this week have been exploring more ambitious planting schemes, visiting other local gardens, and looking at forest gardening. So: here’s a group planting […]
Read More →Tour de Tooting – workshops, a film night, a parade!
Tour de Tooting Creative Director Lucy Neal With less than 2 weeks until Tour de Tooting, are you ready for a wonderful wheeled parade through Tooting, followed by a sharing picnic on Fishponds Fields? Pop 3rd July in your diary! Maybe you’ve found one of these mysterious #tourdetooting tags on your wheels? #tourdetooting Maybe […]
Read More →Restart Party on Tuesday
Broken electrical or electronic items that you don’t want to throw away? Good at fixing or mending stuff or would like to learn how? Come to a Restart Party! and help keep stuff out of landfill. The next Restart Party in Tooting is this coming Tuesday 21st June at 7pm. Restart Parties are the antidote to […]
Read More →Happy 8th Birthday to Transition Town Tooting!
Celebrating eight years of Transition Town Tooting! Thanks to everyone who came to our Annual Celebration Last Friday, we turned our AGM into ACE – our Annual Celebratory Extravaganza – to share and celebrate what we’ve achieved, and to look forward to 2016 and beyond. Volunteers, beneficiaries, partners, project leaders, friends, neighbours and interested local […]
Read More →Pedalista Workshop – This Tuesday!
Could you be a leader in making, could you become a Prime Pedalista? Hello Pedalistas* Tour De Tooting is fast approaching. Pedalistas of Tooting will be looking to get making and decorating throughout June in preparation for the Parade of Wheels on the 3rd July. This Tuesday, Tour De Tooting are hosting a workshop of […]
Read More →Growing Tooting – the sixth weekend of our local grow-your-own food workshop series
Last weekend we enjoyed the sixth crop of fortnightly ‘triple-header’ Growing Tooting workshops – one each in Balham, Tooting and Wandsworth. (Plus there’s the fourth series: an extra Wandsworth group running on the intervening weekends).As ever, thanks to Martin for the energy and co-ordination! What did we do this week?As a comprehensive gardening topic we […]
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