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On Saturday 25th November we held a fantastic skill-filled session – a Taster Day for our Tooting CAN celebration in 2024. Lots of lovely Tooting folk joined us to try their hands at cooking, sewing, mending and add to the growing ‘Compendium of Tooting’s Skills’. Inspired into action by the cold spell of weather the […]
Read More →Saturday 24th June 20 All Saints Gardens Come dressed in something you’ve made yourself, or repaired or bought in a charity shop, get ready to parade or support; join a sewing workshop or watch expert knitters and don’t forget to bring a picnic. Our Share & Repair group are thrilled that the team behind Fixing […]
Read More →Would you like to join local residents for a programme of facilitated workshops exploring our responses to the climate crisis -personally and collectively? Living with the climate crisis is a programme of workshops which offer a mix of psychologically-based groupwork and experiential learning which support people in managing their feelings, experiences and actions towards this complex issue. Anxiety, […]
Read More →Between 2011 – 2018 Transition Tooting led several rounds of Carbon Conversations – involving over 80 local residents. The facilitated workshops enabled individuals to explore the areas of our lives where we can reduce our own carbon emissions: travel, food, domestic energy, consumption and waste. A quote from a participant: “The beauty of Carbon Conversations is the optimism, […]
Read More →JOIN US on September 20th for our COMMUNITY STITCHING – Upcycled Fashion Show – be inspired by the work of local sewing groups and learn how to upcycle. Spring Update The group is really flourishing with about a dozen of us meeting above Oxfam every Friday morning.Alongside variously themed sessions, for a few months we […]
Read More →What a fantastic afternoon of fixing we had in our new Balham venue – St Mary’s Church. Our trusty fixers tackled coffee machines and grinders, toasters, amplifiers, radios, hedge trimmers and even a keyboard! Check out these fantastic pictures of some of the day’s successful fixes…. We were especially thrilled as three new fixers joined […]
Read More →A warm invitation to join us at our 2022 *Annual Celebratory Extravaganza Saturday April 30th – 2 – 4.30 pm Mushkil Aasaan, 222 Upper Tooting Road, London SW17 9LN Our last ‘in-person’ ACE was held back in March 2019 – how much has happened since then in your life, our community and the world – […]
Read More →On Saturday 5th February the Seed and Vegetable swap group had it’s first live seed swap event. This event was to enable local gardeners to meet, have a chat with each other, bring seeds to share with others and pick up seeds they would like to grow. They were also able to have a go […]
Read More →As part of Repairfest, on Friday 12th November, TTT hosted an enjoyable sewing box workshop for women refugees from CARAS, in the hospitable surroundings of Mushkil Aasaan. Most of the materials for the workshop were sourced from the Work and Play Scrapstore. Supplies included a variety of small boxes, fabric, ribbons, braids and felts, as […]
Read More →We had a fantastic time at Tooting’s very own Fashion Show and Parade – Fixing Fashion – celebrating fashion that is pre-loved, upcycled, mended or handed down and kinder to our planet. Read all about it and check out the images below (thanks to photographer Bryony @findmeintooting!) It was a fantastic celebration of Tooting, the […]
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