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  • First feedback after voting closed Friday 18th on Gardens of Refuge via Aviva Community Fund

    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 the top 4 in our project category, we go through to the next round – to a more familiar bid process.

    By the way votes went from 3400 on Weds morning to 6200 by lunchtime yesterday!

    Thanks for your votes, patience and energy in this period of repeated messages and nudges in every medium possible, dominating the TTT airwaves.

    Normal service can soon be resumed on communicating the rest of TTT’s rolling projects.

    Every vote really did count!

  • Please vote by 12:00 Friday November 18th for ‘Gardens of Refuge’ project funding from Aviva

    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 Gardens of Refuge, and ask your family and friends to vote too. Together we can support this creative and forward-looking Tooting partnership project with the refugee and asylum-seeker community centred on the Tooting charity CARAS.
    Every Vote Counts, and every vote is appreciated!

    How to vote?
    You have to register individually before you can vote. To register, please click here for the Aviva webpage
    Then search for CARAS or Gardens of Refuge to vote!

    Project Details:
    Read the description of the project online here.

    For the future: bulbs for 2017

    You’ll see that the project is all about growing the therapeutic benefits of gardening plus greening the community we share in Tooting.
    And it’s about building ways to enable refugees to share their own knowledge and skills locally.
    Together we’ll imagine and create a more beautiful neighbourhood as a legacy for all.

    Legacy: flourishing from 2015’s cuttings
    There are three partners in Gardens of Refuge:

    CARAS – with whom we have worked in depth for 18 months on Rooting in Tooting.

    The Grange – a residential respite and permaculture centre in Norfolk who work with CARAS. Please see The Grange.

    & Transition Town Tooting


     Thank you so much for your support & please vote by 12:00 on 18th Nov!

  • ‘Gardens of Refuge’: our new partnership project for 2017 with CARAS & The Grange. Vote for funding online through the Aviva Community Fund!

    “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 description of the project online here.

    For the future: bulbs for 2017

    Gardens of Refuge is listed under ‘CARAS’ on the Aviva Community Fund website.
    You’ll see that the project is all about growing the therapeutic benefits of gardening plus greening the community we share in Tooting.  
    And it’s about building ways to enable refugees to share their knowledge and skills locally to imagine and create a more beautiful neighbourhood as a legacy for all.

    Legacy: flourishing from 2015’s cuttings
    There are three partners in Gardens of Refuge:

    CARAS – with whom we have worked in depth for 18 months  on Rooting in Tooting.

    The Grange – a residential respite and permaculture centre in Norfolk who work with CARAS. Please see The Grange.

    & Transition Town Tooting

    As of today, the website is live for the public to vote for the projects they would like Aviva to support. 
    Voting is open until 18th November: but please don’t delay!
    Please vote and encourage Aviva to support Gardens of Refuge!  

    You have to register individually before you can vote: to register, please click here for the Aviva webpage
    Then search for CARAS or Gardens of Refuge to vote!

    Thank you so much for your support, 
    and please contact us by email if you have any queries.