We’re continuing to facilitate workshops as part of the Gardens of Refuge project with refugees and asylum-seekers who use the local services of CARAS in Tooting. This is the project for which our partnership won funding from Aviva – via the public voting so many people joined last autumn. The emphasis of Gardens of Refuge […]
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 →On Saturday 12th December TTT offered our fourth annual Resparkle! seasonal crafts session at Tooting Library – this time combined with Jeni Walker’s monthly Meet & Make. The aim was to teach children and adults how to make interesting, fun and attractive decorations or presents using household materials – newspaper, drinks cartons, scrap textiles. Here’s […]
Read More →Two long-running TTT crafts projects which mix creativity and attractive recycled materials are coming together on December 12th at Tooting Library. Reduce, Re-use, Resparkle! has been offered with our partners Tooting Library at Christmas for the past four years. Meet & Make is community artist Jeni Walker’s monthly project for local upcycling and making. On […]
Read More →You may know that TTT is part of a network of Transition Towns round the world – community groups of all shapes and sizes who are each taking local action on environmental and social sustainability. TTT’s motto is Making Change in How We Live, Where We Live, in Light of Climate Change. That encourages a […]
Read More →On Sunday August 2nd we focused on Shelter. Each family Field Day safari has a theme that’s about enjoying the local outdoors, creativity and also low-carbon living. We’ve explored Travel, Water, Nature and more…and had a lot of fun together, and discovered parts of Tooting we didn’t know at all. What did we do?In the […]
Read More →A group of a dozen of us from Tooting went to the Time to Act march on Saturday in London. Why march? To express yourself, to be counted, to meet friends and strangers, to witness change in the making, to represent others, simply to be there. Making and feeling the weight of your message […]
Read More →Tomorrow: Saturday 20th DecemberTTT crafts with recycled materials, Tooting Library, 2:00 to 4:00Our free drop-in seasonal craft making workshop upstairs at the beautiful Tooting Library, 75 Mitcham Road, SW17 9PD. All welcome, all ages, all tuition and materials providedPractical and fun session to illustrate making beautiful things from waste – and reduce carbon. Photos from […]
Read More →TTT’s ’12 tweets to Christmas’ We’re going to tweet every day from now until Christmas Eve on practical, creative, seasonal & interesting sustainability themes. Here is the welcoming tweet:Today we begin @tttooting‘s 12 tweets to Christmas, built on our email newsletter last month ow.ly/FMPV5 Join in! And here is tweet number one:No.1 in @tttooting‘s 12 […]
Read More →In the past fortnight we have hosted two year groups of 50 children each with staff and parents from Gatton School for two special mid-November outdoor learning sessions, Tooting style. Year Four actively searched the garden’s diverse habitats for minibeasts as part of a curriculum day on the natural world. They found worms, woodlice, centipedes, […]
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