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TTT is happy to announce the first Restart Party of 2016 on Saturday 20 February from 2 to 5pm at Mushkil Aasaan, 220 – 222 Upper Tooting Road, SW17 7EW (next to Nando’s). Download the POSTER. You may recall that Restart is the project that aims to keep electronic items out of landfill by trying to fix […]
Read More →Wandsworth Environment Forum are holding a public meeting on Tue 19thJanuary(7pm, Room 123, Wandsworth Town Hall) covering such questions as: • What can be recycled and where does it go after sorting? • Is incineration of non-recyclables better than landfill? • How is Wandsworth performing on waste processing and recycling? (Here are the government’s latest […]
Read More →We’d like to update you on the Rooting in Tooting project: TTT’s joint project with the Tooting charity CARAS (Community Action for Refugees and Asylum-Seekers). In our past blog posts (view them here) we’ve outlined that we have a year of diverse activities planned with CARAS. Participant groups include the CARAS Youth Club and After-School […]
Read More →As you may know, Crossrail 1 is currently under construction linking East London with West London and passing right through the centre of town – Tottenham Court Road perhaps being a known example of the huge impact in time and space of the project. Well, Crossrail 2 is a proposed new train line, broadly linking […]
Read More →On Saturday 12th December TTT offered our fourth annual Resparkle! seasonal crafts session at Tooting Library – this time combined with Jeni Walker’s monthly Meet & Make. The aim was to teach children and adults how to make interesting, fun and attractive decorations or presents using household materials – newspaper, drinks cartons, scrap textiles. Here’s […]
Read More →BATCA Hero Hilary It was a good night for TTT and our partners at last night’s BATCA (Balham & Tooting Community Association) Community Heroes Awards. Our Rooting in Tooting colleagues at CARAS (Community Action for Refugees & Asylum Seekers), won a Team Award, while Hilary Jennings ex-co-chair and key player in TTT since 2008 was a highly commended […]
Read More →Two long-running TTT crafts projects which mix creativity and attractive recycled materials are coming together on December 12th at Tooting Library. Reduce, Re-use, Resparkle! has been offered with our partners Tooting Library at Christmas for the past four years. Meet & Make is community artist Jeni Walker’s monthly project for local upcycling and making. On […]
Read More →We’d like to share our responses to the Sunday 29th Climate Justice march in London, and to actions that replaced the banned march in Paris. And we’d like to share news of the Transition Network day in Paris on Saturday 28th.All these events and more are urgently linked with the COP21 Climate talks in Paris which […]
Read More →Our third post in response to the Climate march weekend, COP21 and Transition’s contribution Thinking about impact and action – the global view Paris Charles: Another of the replacements for the banned Paris march was the ‘human chain’ – a line kilometres long where participants linked hands (for a short while…until the stewards said ‘C’est fini’ […]
Read More →Here‘s our second blog post in response to the Climate march weekend, COP21 and Transition’s contribution Some ‘community-level’ responses LondonWe marched with the Transition bloc. Inherently local, it is affirming to feel part of a wider community form time to time. Sunday gave space for us all to talk to each other in a different […]
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