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, […]
Read More →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 […]
Read More →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 […]
Read More →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 […]
Read More →We’re reporting back every six weeks on the Gardens of Refuge Project. That’s our local project running throughout 2017 with refugees and asylum-seekers living in and nearby Tooting, alongside our project partners CARAS and The Grange.Our previous summary at the end of May can be read here.In June and July we’ve worked with the CARAS […]
Read More →We’re sharing our monthly update about Gardens of Refuge.Gardens of Refuge is our 2017 partnership project with CARAS and The Grange to provide therapeutic and positive experiences for people of refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds who live in South-West London.There are four interrelated project strands to share:> Carpentry project with the Youth Club > Family Activity […]
Read More →On Sunday 17th July, Jeni Walker and Richard Couldrey continued with the 4th year of our annual pattern of work with the National Citizen Service through “The Challenge” – a personal development and social integration programme offered to 15 – 17 year olds which includes a project focused day with a Charity or Community Group. […]
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 →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 →Our new ‘Rooting in Tooting’ project has been developed with the Tooting charity CARAS (Community Action for Refugees and Asylum-Seekers). We’ve written two posts so far, please scroll down this blog to read them. You’ll see that our pilot project in May and June was enjoyable and positive. For Those in Peril on the Sea […]
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