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TTT celebrated its 7th birthday at the 2015 AGM on Monday. After a Tooting Quiz, including ICU nurses from St George’s who provided a tie-breaker, we heard a review of the last year and ideas for future vision and direction. New co-chairs were elected for the next two years, congratulations to Richard & Jenny, and […]
Read More →The TTT AGM 2015 takes place next Monday 27th April in the back bit at Graveney & Meadow, 40 Mitcham Rd SW17 9NA. The night’s festivities will include a Tooting Quiz with prizes, brief updates on current TTT projects and ideas, some official business re finances and electing new officers (including co-chairs & secretary), plus […]
Read More →Do you have an electrical or electronic item that needs fixing? Something broken you don’t want to throw away? Challenge the culture of built-in obsolescence and take back control of your electronic stuff…. The Restart Project, a London-based social enterprise that encourages and empowers people to use their electrical and electronics longer, are running regular […]
Read More →Last Saturday TTT hosted Looking Out For Tooting, a workshop designed to ‘celebrate the people and groups that care for Tooting and its future’. Members of over 20 local Tooting organisations and groups took part.See the list of participating groups here, and the invitation here. We aimed to focus on four areas: 1. to meet others and […]
Read More →This post is a round-up of eight imaginative projects and developments that are happening now, in Tooting and beyond. It’s a selection of what we’ve spotted in the past month. My title comes from Paul Allen of Zero Carbon Britain at the Centre for Alternative Technology, one of the contributors to Playing for Time (see below). […]
Read More →This is a reminder that Weds 8th is the April Meet & Make! Meet & Make is a monthly invitation to ”make time for making” in our busy lives. On offer this month, at no cost, is the chance to sit and relax with the restorative craft of hand sewing, using beads. You can create […]
Read More →‘Our enormously productive economy demands we make consumption a way of life’. This is a quote from 1955 on the wall of an exhibition now showing at the Lightbox Gallery in Woking.A toilet brush is the unlikely centre-piece of the exhibition. Its description reads ‘This is a well designed toilet brush from Addis bought in […]
Read More →Good to see that there has been some debate and reflection after last week’s Electing The Future event. Low Impact’s Dave Darby in this thoughtful piece reflects on the elephant in the room – the incongruity of constant economic growth on a physically finite planet, an erroneous assumption that he feels the main political parties […]
Read More →A successful Electing the Future event was held tonight at the USSR club. Loads of interesting discussion about Tooting past, present and future with local voices including some of the parliamentary candidates standing in Tooting. Thanks to Dan Watkins, Phil Ling & Esther Obiri-Darko for attending and Fleur Anderson for standing in for an absent Sadiq Khan. […]
Read More →With the general election just around the corner, TTT is bringing local people of all ages together, along with local businesses, parliamentary candidates, scientists and artists for an open conversation about the future of our area. Electing the Future takes place next Wednesday 18th March at the United Services Club in the Balham High Rd […]
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