Tooting Together

The Brick Box/Tooting Market project (Activity One)

• Brick Box have been delivering day and night time events under this programme since September 2011 (continuing their earlier work begun in April 2011)
• Recent events include a week long "dinner extravaganza" organized from 11 to 16 December 2011. Brick Box offered every day different food and matching music for a memorable night out.
• Refurbishment of the central space in Tooting Market has begun 

Development of Tooting Life website  (Activity Three)

• Visit www.tootinglife.com
• Pilot project will train 50 businesses to add content to their own page
• Lots of work completed on back-end functions of the site
• New look site launched Friday 4 November 2011
• New Content Management System will allow for easier navigation and administration
• Initial expressions of interest obtained from Tooting's business community
• Individual business pages are being created at the moment, and training is about to start

Gallery project (Activity Four)

• The Pop-Up Christmas Cinema organized by Tooting Arts Club was a great success. From December 9 to 18, the local community was able to view various heart-warming movies whilst eating delicacies.
• The Construction Gallery is now on its way. The new venue, set up by POST artists, will host locally created art and events. It will open its doors to the public from mid-January 2012 to the end of March 2012.

Tooting, Furzedown and Balham Artists Trail (Activity Five)

• 10,000 copies of publicity leaflet produced
• Banner promoting the Artists Trail installed at Tooting Broadway
• A successful event delivered (formal evaluation to follow)

Wandsworth Museum Mini-Exhibition (Activity Seven)

• In partnership with Wandsworth Museum, Rosie Whitney-Fish and Colleagues will deliver an exhibition called Dear Lido including archive material about Tooting Lido as well as documentation from Dear Lido, a series of performances choreographed by Rosie Whitney-Fish.
• The exhibition will be hosted during half-term week (15-18 February) at Construction Gallery, set up by POST artists (see Activity Four).

Banners (Activity Nine)

• Lamp columns have been tested, and the Welcome to Tooting banners have been redesigned.
• The new and colourful banners have been displayed by Tooting Broadway station. More are yet to come elsewhere in the neighbourhood.

Resources

Max Yvetot has been appointed to assist Tooting Town Centre Manager Audrey Helps (overall Programme Manager) with delivery of the Round One Tooting programme

An additional office has been secured. The new space is at the disposal of the delivery partners involved in the Outer London Fund Project. This office is conceived as a place to work, to hold meetings and to forge even stronger networks with one another.

All the above, as well as many other preparations in relation to Round One Tooting projects, have only been made possible thanks to the financial support from the Mayor of London's Outer London Fund. We would also like to thank the GLA's delivery team Design for London for their ongoing support and guidance.