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 →Here at Transition Town Tooting we love a chance to celebrate – and we don’t mind a good birthday cake either! Last month was our annual general meeting and party, the perfect opportunity to reflect on the past year, look forward to the future and celebrate the now. We had feedback from some of our […]
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 →Early in May we held a delightful celebration of three years’ shared experience of the outdoor learning project between Gatton Primary School and Tooting Community Garden. You can look at that blog report by clicking here. The sun shone on us all and lit the mosaic made at the school with every pupil involved. Among the natural images […]
Read More →This afternoon a formal celebration of three years of Community Outdoor Learning with Gatton School took place at the Tooting Community Garden, attended as guest of honour by the Mayor of Wandsworth, Councillor Nicola Nardelli, plus site owner Naseem Aboobaker of Mushkil Aasaan and Rifat Batool, Head at Gatton School. The celebration was joined by many […]
Read More →We’re proud to be helping with a new outdoor learning project in the Community Garden with Gatton Primary School and the Mosaic Jewish Primary School Our Community Garden-based project with Gatton School has run for nearly three years. Gatton is a Muslim primary near Tooting Broadway – click here for lots of our earlier reports. […]
Read More →Back in September, Charles Whitehead wrote a preview piece about 8 of us from Tooting heading to the Transition Network International Conference at Seale Hayne, Newton Abbot. We went by caravan, car share and train arriving the day before, early afternoon and late at night. You can read all about how we contributed to the […]
Read More →For the past 2 1/2 years, TTT has been running outdoor learning classes with pupils from Gatton, a local primary school in the community garden. From weekly sessions with Reception and Year 1 classes, to 7-week projects with the Year 6 students, the classes encompass a huge range of cross-curriculum learning, developing new skills and […]
Read More →You may know that TTT is part of a network of Transition Towns round the world – community groups of all shapes and sizes who are each taking local action on environmental and social sustainability. TTT’s motto is Making Change in How We Live, Where We Live, in Light of Climate Change. That encourages a […]
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