Our previous blog post describes Growing Community Part 1 – and to recap in the last week of July our long-planned collaboration between Ravenstone School and Tooting Community Garden offered two interlinked local ‘Growing Community in the Heart of the City’ workshops as part of The Mayor of London’s National Park City Festival The common […]
Read More →‘Growing Communities in the Heart of the City’ is this weekend in the Tooting Community Garden!We’ll be running our free open day on Sunday 28th July from 12:00-4:00 to celebrate the National Park City Festival and also our 8th birthday (we’ve opened the garden on around 400 Sundays!) What will we be doing on […]
Read More →TTT have been ReSparkling with Tooting Library since 2012 – it’s always a magical event upstairs in the beautiful children’s library. Indoors last Saturday the library was full of colour, light and energy as it became darker, wetter and stormier outside. It’s a free and simple event: for two hours we offered 5 activity tables, […]
Read More →This Friday 13th October as a part of Pollinator Paths Wandsworth project, all invited to a Moth Recording Walk at Putney Heath. This is a fun mix of citizen science and being outdoors in the city. If you have never seen live moths close up, it’s a great opportunity. Poplar Hawk moth in summer Timing? […]
Read More →We’re sharing our monthly update about Gardens of Refuge.Gardens of Refuge is our 2017 partnership project with CARAS and The Grange to provide therapeutic and positive experiences for people of refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds who live in South-West London.There are four interrelated project strands to share:> Carpentry project with the Youth Club > Family Activity […]
Read More →Children from 5 to 8 years old and accompanying adults are welcome to join this new event which explores rewilding and environmental thinking in a fascinating and participative way – right here in Tooting on Saturday 8th April. All welcome to come and explore our themes: Play – Learn – Dream We’re thrilled that Andres […]
Read More →Are you looking forward to gardening for wildlife in 2017? We recently announced the exciting new Pollinator Paths Wandsworth project, and we’ve been posting updates on Facebook and tweeting. The next step is to run the two free Design Workshops this week One this Friday, one on Saturday. This is where the discussion will take […]
Read More →This is a new and imaginative project that is being launched now and will run throughout 2017. Pollinator Paths Wandsworth is all about encouraging local gardeners to establish small patches as wildlife havens. Several community gardens are involved, so there will be plenty of support. It’s going to be a good project to strengthen growing links […]
Read More →All welcome to join us for an informal and free family picnic on Sunday 7th August from 1- 3 pm at the Community Garden at 5 North Drive SW16 1RN. At 2pm we’ll unveil the oak sculpture that many hands have been carving with Fio’s support since June ’15 Come over from 11am if you […]
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 […]
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