Annual general meeting and celebrations

Here at Transition Town Tooting we love a chance to celebrate - and we don't mind a good birthday cake either!
Last month was our annual general meeting and party, the perfect opportunity to reflect on the past year, look forward to the future and celebrate the now.
We had feedback from some of our main events and projects of the last year and it was lovely to hear from some new faces.

The projects represented were: Foodival (Mal), Future Tooting (Eleanor), Restart/Sewstart (Jeni), Vegetanuary (Sharon), Tooting Twirl (Lucy & Richard), Carbon Conversations (Peter), Caras (Jeni & Egle), Outdoor Learning (Sharon), Tooting Community Garden (Christine) and Green Drinks (Richard).


This list shows the diversity of our community activities - some long standing partnerships, some one-off events - and of course covers just a snapshot of the many things TTT is involved with.

We then moved to the formal part of the evening - reports from the treasurer, secretary and co-chairs and the reelection of the officers. Your chief officers remain: Sharon Gray & Jeni Walker, co-chairs; Eleanor Glen, secretary; and David Thorne, treasurer. We look forward to hearing from you!




Time for a fun activity - we asked everyone present to write down some ideas for future TTT projects or wishes for Tooting on a 'cookie' and these will be stored in our TTT Cookie Jar to be enjoyed when we have a lull in our calendar - there was certainly plenty of food for thought.

A quiz followed, put together by David, which provoked much debate and brain-straining and then we rounded off the evening with a gorgeous chocolate cake to celebrate TTT's 10th birthday, some delicious snacks and many enjoyable conversations.
Huge thanks to everyone who came and contributed to a great evening. We look forward to seeing you at next year's party, or before then at any of our TT activities. Just email us on transitiontowntooting@gmail.com to find out how you can get involved.
Sharon

Help shape a 2016 vision for Tooting

We're running a couple of fun events in the next week and you're invited!

Join us to reflect and celebrate 2015's activities and achievements and let's imagine what we might want to do for Tooting in 2016.

Come along. Everyone welcome!

• Saturday, 07 November, 10am - 1pm, at Mushkil Aasaan, Upper Tooting Rd (next to Nando's)

• Tuesday, 10 November, 7pm - 9pm, at the Trafalgar Arms, Tooting High St (back room)

If you can't make it, take some time to think about these questions and get in touch with your thoughts and ideas.

• What could TTT do in Tooting in 2016?
• How can TTT support people in Tooting in 2016?
• What ideas do you have for our projects and activities?
• How could Foodival evolve, or the community garden?

There are plenty of ideas brewing and we hope some of them become an exciting 2016 reality!

TTT SMArT Notice board update: 18th March 2014

Arts & Making Happening Right Now In Tooting, courtesy of SMArT

The newest items on the board this week are are on yellow post-its. You can email Jeni for more info on jeniannewalker@gmail.com. Alternatively just take the contact details from the post-it you are interested in.

Great news for our next Meet & Make!

Cressida from the Wandle Valley Girls Project has very kindly offered share the project with us as our feature make for April and you are invited. Attendees work will be exhibited as part of the chealsea fringe. ( work can be collected to keep at the end).

Just for this special workshop Jeni is asking for people to let her know if they are planning to come so we can be sure of numbers. Cressida will be providing transported materials, and her expertise at cost and effort so lets make the most of this fantastic opportunity! email Jeni on Jeniannewalker@gmail.com

Dates for your diary
9th April: Meet & Make - Sprout - Wandle Valley Girls Project  
14th May: Meet & Make - Sprout - Furzedown Oak project 
11th June: Meet & Make - Sprout - Activity TBC 
9th July: Meet & Make - Sprout - Activity TBC