Between 2011 – 2018 Transition Tooting led several rounds of Carbon Conversations – involving over 80 local residents. The facilitated workshops enabled individuals to explore the areas of our lives where we can reduce our own carbon emissions: travel, food, domestic energy, consumption and waste. A quote from a participant: “The beauty of Carbon Conversations is the optimism, […]
Read More →JOIN US on September 20th for our COMMUNITY STITCHING – Upcycled Fashion Show – be inspired by the work of local sewing groups and learn how to upcycle. Spring Update The group is really flourishing with about a dozen of us meeting above Oxfam every Friday morning.Alongside variously themed sessions, for a few months we […]
Read More →What a fantastic afternoon of fixing we had in our new Balham venue – St Mary’s Church. Our trusty fixers tackled coffee machines and grinders, toasters, amplifiers, radios, hedge trimmers and even a keyboard! Check out these fantastic pictures of some of the day’s successful fixes…. We were especially thrilled as three new fixers joined […]
Read More →A warm invitation to join us at our 2022 *Annual Celebratory Extravaganza Saturday April 30th – 2 – 4.30 pm Mushkil Aasaan, 222 Upper Tooting Road, London SW17 9LN Our last ‘in-person’ ACE was held back in March 2019 – how much has happened since then in your life, our community and the world – […]
Read More →On Saturday 5th February the Seed and Vegetable swap group had it’s first live seed swap event. This event was to enable local gardeners to meet, have a chat with each other, bring seeds to share with others and pick up seeds they would like to grow. They were also able to have a go […]
Read More →As part of Repairfest, on Friday 12th November, TTT hosted an enjoyable sewing box workshop for women refugees from CARAS, in the hospitable surroundings of Mushkil Aasaan. Most of the materials for the workshop were sourced from the Work and Play Scrapstore. Supplies included a variety of small boxes, fabric, ribbons, braids and felts, as […]
Read More →We had a fantastic time at Tooting’s very own Fashion Show and Parade – Fixing Fashion – celebrating fashion that is pre-loved, upcycled, mended or handed down and kinder to our planet. Read all about it and check out the images below (thanks to photographer Bryony @findmeintooting!) It was a fantastic celebration of Tooting, the […]
Read More →Local community experimenters Gemma and Jeni trundled the Listening Cart back to school to capture the inner thinking of The Children (whom they believe are indeed our future). Together they looked at repair, what it means to different people and how it might connect us to others through the shared need to fix, not throw […]
Read More →from 24th November at Tooting Market A highlight of our Repair Fest 2021 is a photography exhibition offering a window into a selection of local businesses in the community where you can get items, fixed, stitched, welded, and repaired. By changing the habit of throwing things out, and by choosing to repair we save money […]
Read More →Oasis Wandsworth and ‘My Old Girl and Me’ relive their glorious union for this immensely popular and fun upcycling workshop. Monday 29th November, 2-4 at Tooting Market, bookings can be made via Eventbrite
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