Next week Transition Tooting will join 100s of others at the Royal Festival Hall to make London the world’s first National Park City. Hosted by comedian Josie Long, there is a great line-up of speakers. Former Gatton School (in Tooting) Headteacher Rifat Batool, now Principal of The Olive School, Birmingham will be talking about her […]

As you may know, Crossrail 1 is currently under construction linking East London with West London and passing right through the centre of town – Tottenham Court Road perhaps being a known example  of the huge impact in time and space of the project. Well, Crossrail 2 is a proposed new train line, broadly linking […]

Best wishes to all for 2013 from all of us in TTT!And all welcome to the first event of the year, on Tuesday 8th January: ‘Designing the 2013 Tooting Foodival’  ‘I grew this’ from Sept 2012 Venue: Mushkil Aasaan, 222 Upper Tooting Road, SW17 7EW Timings: from 7 to 9 pm   We’ve run the […]

On the evening of Wednesday 20th June a group in Tooting met to join in with the UK-wide Festival of Transition’s 24 Hours of Possibility. See http://www.festivaloftransition.net/experiments/67Why go to Rio when you can come to Tooting? For half the time we were catching up with the past and present. We had a lot of discussion, clarification and questioning […]

Transition Town Tooting hold regular planning meetings – all are welcome. Here are the pictorial notes from our last meeting on the 15th May. Notes drawn by Jeni Walker – inspired by Alice Maggs. Click to enlarge.

Here are the notes from the April Core Group Meeting

On Tuesday evening, around 80 people gathered at Wimbledon’s  St. Mark’s Church to ask  four of the candidates for the London Assembly what they would do if they got into power on May 3rd. The candidates fielding questions were Leonie Cooper (Labour), Shas Sheehan (Liberal Democrat), Richard Tracey (Conservative and current Assembly Member for Merton […]

The ‘Monthly Do’ on Sunday April 22nd at Wandsworth Borough Council’s Pump House Gallery in Battersea Park saw several of us from Transition Tooting join with gallery staff to offer a drop-in afternoon about on ‘Growing Successfully in the City’. Yes – that broad topic included different prompts for the ways ‘urban growing’ is expressed: […]

Transition Town Tooting hold regular planning meetings – all are welcome. To get a flavour of the kind of things we  discuss see HERE the first graphically recorded meeting notes, from our last meeting on the 20th March. This move towards the pictorial – done by Jeni Walker – was inspired by Alice Maggs’ graphic documentation of Carbon […]

In the post below on ‘Community Approaches to the Green Deal’, we mention the video that was being made to accompany the project.Now it’s finished and ready to enjoy on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNRx6tNFG8U  It’s seven minutes long – do have a look, and keep an eye out for the local locations and stars!The partners in […]