We are thrilled that Gardens of Refuge, the 2017 project working with Tooting refugees and asylum-seekers, has been awarded funding by Aviva. The project application was made by the local charity CARAS (Community Action for Refugees and Asylum-Seekers) and TTT are the partners along with The Grange respite centre in Norfolk. Thank you for all […]
Read More →Egle, Jenny and Chuck were honoured to be able to present our shared experience from the joint CARAS + TTT ‘Rooting in Tooting’ project at this free conference yesterday. It was run by Team London to celebrate the end of London’s tenure as International City of Volunteering for 2016. Over 300 people attended. We tried to […]
Read More →Brilliant success at the voting stage: Aviva Community Fund has just confirmed that we’re through to the finals for the Gardens of Refuge project! We now do some further application steps by December 7th, and then there’s judging and then the results are announced January 10th ’17. Great news & thanks for all the […]
Read More →We’re proud to share where we reached when voting closed yesterday on the Gardens of Refuge campaign with CARAS. Over 600 people supported the project online.We believe we came THIRD, with over 6200 votes. WHICH IS WONDERFUL!Our formal ranking will be confirmed on 22nd Nov by Aviva & we’ll communicate wider after then. If we’re in […]
Read More →This week is the home straight for voting online for funding support for Gardens of Refuge at the Aviva Community Fund. It will come down to our tally of votes at the end of 18th November, and of course the other ‘Aviva projects’ are also doing a push this week. Please vote by Friday 12:00 for […]
Read More →This autumn TTT is delighted to be able to contribute to events to share our learning from Rooting in Tooting (our joint project with the refugee and asylum seeker community served by CARAS)It’s brilliant to be meeting new people and groups, and sharing in different ways: thank you for the invitations! We certainly don’t ‘have […]
Read More →“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” (Audrey Hepburn) We are thrilled that Gardens of Refuge, our new partnership project plan has reached the final public voting stage of the Aviva Community Fund! The project is centred on the refugee and asylum-seeker community who are supported by the Tooting charity CARAS. Read the […]
Read More →On the 30th June CARAS Youth Club members travelled to the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show to help with the build of the Border Control Concept Garden. It was a fascinating visit – to see the TTT blog post, click here.Now the garden is finished and open to the public. The Youth Club paid […]
Read More →For over a year TTT has been facilitating Rooting in Tooting project activities with diverse groups of all ages via the Tooting charity CARAS (Community Action for Refugees and Asylum-Seekers). Yesterday we accompanied a group from the CARAS Youth Club to explore the build of the Border Control show garden at the RHS Hampton Court […]
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 […]
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