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 →We’re very excited about TTT’s ninth annual Tooting Foodival which is all about Celebrating Local Food Together as a Community. We’re planning the details now – here’s a snapshot preview.Plenty more information to come later on. ‘Local food plus local community’ is the weekend’s theme: I Grew This! (Foodival 2015) Saturday 10th Sept activities run […]
Read More →Yesterday we officially opened the Dragon Bean bench at the Community Garden Summer Picnic! Gentle finishing touches last week For the past twelve months Fio Adamson has been guiding a participatory sculpture project in the Community Garden. About to cut the ribbon & unveil the bench Now, can Fio rest….? Working with many pieces of […]
Read More →In the final local growing sessions in Balham, Tooting and Wandsworth we celebrated progress and looked at what comes next now the programme is complete. We discussed harvesting and preparing food (and bringing any surpluses to the Tooting Foodival), and asked about what the participants might need next in their growing journey. Suggestions so far: ‘local […]
Read More →On the 30th June CARAS Youth Club members travelled to the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show to help with the build of the Border Control Concept Garden. It was a fascinating visit – to see the TTT blog post, click here.Now the garden is finished and open to the public. The Youth Club paid […]
Read More →In 2015 TTT helped facilitate a research project by the University of Westminster all about the impact of urban heatwaves – for the details please see past blog posts by clicking here on Urban Heat. TTT worked with the researchers and with many local partners in Tooting: voluntary and community groups plus borough-level and statutory […]
Read More →Here’s the report from the seventh weekend of our Growing Tooting ‘grow your own food’ local fortnightly classes. We’ve been offering these in Balham, Tooting and Wandsworth since April. The common themes this week have been exploring more ambitious planting schemes, visiting other local gardens, and looking at forest gardening. So: here’s a group planting […]
Read More →Last weekend we enjoyed the sixth crop of fortnightly ‘triple-header’ Growing Tooting workshops – one each in Balham, Tooting and Wandsworth. (Plus there’s the fourth series: an extra Wandsworth group running on the intervening weekends).As ever, thanks to Martin for the energy and co-ordination! What did we do this week?As a comprehensive gardening topic we […]
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