We’ve enjoyed and learned so much from our partnership project with CARAS which has been running since spring 2015.Here’s a short update on several of the strands – taking the first three in the list above, each of which has involved the Youth Club for asylum-seekers and refugees. We’ll share Update #2 soon. As ever, […]

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Join us to celebrate Refugee Week 2018 in Tooting! It’s the 20th annual Refugee Week, and in TTT’s 10th anniversary year we’re proud to be showing ‘Even When I Fall’ in partnership with CARAS and St. Mary Magdalene Church, Wandsworth Common.     When: Sunday 17th June. Doors open 7:00 for tea and a samosa […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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In March we started our run of ‘Signs of Welcome’ creative workshops, and between now and June we’re offering more public hands-on events with local project partners.  In the workshops you’ll explore your responses  to this open question:  “What would you like to say to welcome people who are new to the community?” You’ll imagine […]

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We’re planning the fourth year of TTT’s partnership with CARAS the Tooting charity working with refugee and asylum-seekers.   We’re thrilled that the partnership has been awarded funding for 2018 from Team London and Thrive LDN’s ‘Young London Inspired’ fund: “improving the lives and mental health of young Londoners by helping them to volunteer”. So, in […]

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It’s the end of the project year for our partnership with the CARAS team and the refugees and asylum-seekers they serve. Of course we are going to do more all together in 2018, and we’re planning that now. Yesterday was the end-of-year CARAS Saturday Youth Club party, enjoyed by over 50 young people and volunteers.  […]

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This time last year we were in the middle of the voting period for the Aviva Community Fund, where the Gardens of Refuge joint project with the Tooting charity CARAS won £10,000 – thanks to the votes of many friends near and far.  This time last year…the voting was hot! We’re nearing the end of […]

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On October 3rd the opening night of the Stay With Love exhibition at The Sound Lounge in Tooting saw a very diverse group of 75 join in to celebrate the exhibition. There were teenagers, families and young children from the asylum-seeking and refugee community who are served by CARAS. There were many of the CARAS […]

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We’re thrilled that the Stay With Love exhibition has moved from concept to reality alongside our partners CARAS and The Sound Lounge. We experienced so much energy, creativity and patience from all the volunteers and staff involved in this experiment: Thank You! We hung the show on the 2nd October, and then the exhibition opening […]

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