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An afternoon of fixing and mending! On Saturday 12th November Transition Town Tooting and Restart held an event to get people reusing their broken things. Local connecting hub Mushkil Aasaan hall was a hive of activity with many people so keen they turned up early! The Restart project is a London-based social enterprise that encourages and empowers people […]
Read More →Brilliant success at the voting stage: Aviva Community Fund has just confirmed that we’re through to the finals for the Gardens of Refuge project! We now do some further application steps by December 7th, and then there’s judging and then the results are announced January 10th ’17. Great news & thanks for all the […]
Read More →We’re proud to share where we reached when voting closed yesterday on the Gardens of Refuge campaign with CARAS. Over 600 people supported the project online.We believe we came THIRD, with over 6200 votes. WHICH IS WONDERFUL!Our formal ranking will be confirmed on 22nd Nov by Aviva & we’ll communicate wider after then. If we’re in […]
Read More →This week is the home straight for voting online for funding support for Gardens of Refuge at the Aviva Community Fund. It will come down to our tally of votes at the end of 18th November, and of course the other ‘Aviva projects’ are also doing a push this week. Please vote by Friday 12:00 for […]
Read More →This autumn TTT is delighted to be able to contribute to events to share our learning from Rooting in Tooting (our joint project with the refugee and asylum seeker community served by CARAS)It’s brilliant to be meeting new people and groups, and sharing in different ways: thank you for the invitations! We certainly don’t ‘have […]
Read More →Come and join us on Saturday November the 12th for an afternoon of fixing and mending! Whether it’s electrical or electronic items that you don’t want to throw away or a sewing machine that is broken or you’re not sure how to use. Have a favourite piece of clothing that needs mending or altering and […]
Read More →Lovely Green Drinks in Tooting last night at The Selkirk, thanks for hosting! We got to know the London National Park City initiative better and asked how we would raise London’s green cover from 48% (current) to 51%???? Our answer is…, Parklets! Green up the base of trees, hand over 1 car parking space to […]
Read More →There are new posts on our Foodival blog (click on that link) which follow up on two of the fun events at this year’s Tooting Foodival: celebrating local food together as a community.One post gives Minestra Supper Club’s recipe based on Elisabetta’s pasta-making demonstration.The other shares all the how-tos of our grow-you-own home seed-sprouting crusade.Do enjoy […]
Read More →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 […]
Read More →Don’t miss the Foodival 2016 Soup Disco at Tooting Market this evening. Low food mile sustainable veg peeled, chopped and cooked up into a community feast to the sound of classic dance beats. You couldn’t make it up! Well you can if you come tonight … Optional checklist: peeler, glitter, apron, platform shoes, wig, chopping board, friend, […]
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