After the long haul of communicating near and far for voting in the Aviva Community Fund last year, winning funding in January, and getting on with the planning for 2017…we’ve begun the project! Our first session with the CARAS refugee and asylum-seekers has been a Family Activity Day on Valentine’s Day..It was a familiar mother-and-children […]
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 →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 →We’d like to update you on the Rooting in Tooting project: TTT’s joint project with the Tooting charity CARAS (Community Action for Refugees and Asylum-Seekers). In our past blog posts (view them here) we’ve outlined that we have a year of diverse activities planned with CARAS. Participant groups include the CARAS Youth Club and After-School […]
Read More →BATCA Hero Hilary It was a good night for TTT and our partners at last night’s BATCA (Balham & Tooting Community Association) Community Heroes Awards. Our Rooting in Tooting colleagues at CARAS (Community Action for Refugees & Asylum Seekers), won a Team Award, while Hilary Jennings ex-co-chair and key player in TTT since 2008 was a highly commended […]
Read More →Here‘s our second blog post in response to the Climate march weekend, COP21 and Transition’s contribution Some ‘community-level’ responses LondonWe marched with the Transition bloc. Inherently local, it is affirming to feel part of a wider community form time to time. Sunday gave space for us all to talk to each other in a different […]
Read More →TTT will be joining the Transition Bloc at the march, join us :11am at the entrance to Tooting Bec Underground Station on Sunday 29th November. More information from organisers, including a route map is on the Campaign against Climate Change page here This weekend marks the beginning of the 2 week International Climate Conference in Paris […]
Read More →Tooting’s own Furzedown Low Carbon Zone (FLCZ) is joining Community Renewable Energy Wandsworth (CREW) and Repowering London to host the city’s first gathering of all local community energy groups: Community Energy in London – Question TimeFree Entry! City Hall, The Queen’s Walk, London SE1 2AA, United Kingdom6pm to 9pm on Thursday 12th November 2015 Please […]
Read More →Mena participating in the garden Earlier in the year, we had a visit by an MSc student from Edinburgh called Mena Grossmann. Mena, as she describes below, used Transition Town Tooting as a case study to explore diversity within the Transition Town Movement for her MSc research project.For us and the Transition Movement as a […]
Read More →The long-debated tax of 5 pence per single-use plastic bag becomes law from the 5th October in England, and applies to ‘free’ bags from larger shops and chains (enterprises employing more than 250 people). Smaller shops can also charge if they wish. The sums charged go into pots for charity…so there are some complex processes, […]
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