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 →130 people joined us for 2 events during London National Park City Festival Week! Our 2 linked workshops, called Growing Community in the Heart of Wandsworth, invited people to come and get their hands dirty learning how to make vertical planters, potting on, creating leaf pressings and loads more. They also created a lasting echo […]
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 →Our Signs of Welcome series of ten local workshops is continuing now over the next two weeks.Click here to read about the first five events and what we experienced together with our project partner CARAS. We created these participatory workshops to provide a vivid, simple and accessible opportunity to imagine how to welcome people new […]
Read More →It’s TTT’s tenth anniversary, and we’re facilitating ten free, fun, thoughtful and creative ‘Signs of Welcome’ workshops locally, along with our partner CARAS. We’re in diverse venues that are themselves welcoming and interesting spaces to visit: cafes, shops, local enterprises. We’re half way through – five workshops completed since March and five more in the […]
Read More →Leo’s Garden, the highly-valued and hidden-away balcony garden at South Thames College in Tooting held a celebratory event this week. STC staff and friends marked two years on from its opening (see our 2015 blog report here) and did some autumn planting. This kind of local oasis is so relevant to a new study published […]
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