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Cooking, growing, sewing, singing, dancing, making or mending and more: the community of Tooting has an abundance of skills and talents which also make us stronger together. On 16th March 2024 we hosted our first Tooting Can… Celebratory Extravaganza. Dive into our blog below telling the story of the day (with ‘how to’ links and […]
Read More →We are thrilled to bring Town Anywhere – a large-scale community visioning experience to Tooting. On Monday 21st October (9.30 – 4) this free event will bring people together to explore the future of our vibrant Tooting community. Town Anywhere is an extraordinary exercise. It invites us to step into the future, to reimagine and […]
Read More →Cooking, growing, sewing, singing, dancing, making or mending and more: the community of Tooting has an abundance of skills and talents which also make us stronger together. Tooting Can is a free community event for all ages to celebrate and share the skills in Tooting’s diverse community. JOIN US on 15th March 2025 – 12 – […]
Read More →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 →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 have been working on a commission fromWandsworth Carers to make a banner for their new Iris Cafe, a group for people with dementia and theircarers which meets monthly in the […]
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 – […]
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