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On March 18th & 20th we started Growing Tooting by launching our new free series of 8 classes on learning to grow your own local city food by participating and sharing with others in your neighbourhood. That’s 8 classes in each of 3 locations in Balham, Tooting and Wandsworth. Many thanks to Martin for the tireless […]
Read More →Earlier this month TTT organised a clean up of the Church Lane car park, which had embarrassingly been listed as one of the UK’s Top Grot Spots. With the help of Wandsworth Council this notorious dump was “cleaned for the Queen” and TTT held conversations about, well, anything really with a surprising number of passers […]
Read More →Today, Saturday March 5th 12.30-3pm, join us in our colourful Pop Up Sitting Room in the Church Lane Car Park in Tooting, near the junction with Mitcham Road! TTT is hosting community conversations about reducing waste and how we make ‘good change’ in Tooting. Supported by Wandsworth Council, as part of the Keep Britain Tidy […]
Read More →Do you want to learn about local food growing and build up your practical gardening skills, where you live? Our FREE series of gardening and growing workshops starts on the weekend of March 18th and runs to the end of June This free fortnightly programme runs in three different locations in Tooting, Balham and Wandsworth – […]
Read More →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 […]
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