Tooting Can is a free community event to celebrate and share the skills in Tooting’s diverse community. The focus will be practical and participatory ‘doing together’. We’ll welcome adults, families, young people to the day.It’s going to be energising and fun!Read about Tooting Can and get the latest updates on our Event Page Do you […]

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A fabulous time was had by all at the Sew It, Show Picnic and Parade. The event was a celebration of slow fashion featuring sewing, stitching, crafting, fixing, mending and swapping – a picnic and a parade! The event bought together indivduals and community groups from across Tooting with workshops from Work & Play Scrapstore, […]

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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 […]

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So yesterday’s IPCC’s latest report says human activity is changing the climate in unprecedented and sometimes irreversible ways. [BBC Report]. The Guardian gives its verdict on the climate crimes of humanity as “guilty as hell”. The report itself is likely to be conservative, having been signed up to by all the world’s governments based on […]

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In the 6 weeks following Hallowe’en we’ve facilitated 4 Zoom participative workshops. We’ve been cooking-along, creating and crafting, writing and sharing poems, all in real time. We’ve been building skills, discussing and responding between friends, strangers and generations. ‘Distant Socialising, not Social Distancing’: we’ve been thinking about how this phrase sums up the experience of […]

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