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Awards were made in the following categories:
Environment
Jean Millar, Balham environment champion
Tooting Community Garden, Growing and learning space open to all
The Arts
Jatinder Verma MBE, Founder of Tara Arts Theatre
Jayson Singh and Weavie Stevie, Community artists at the Work and...
Black History Month is being celebrated across Tooting with the following events. Do you have an event you’d like to add? Please email details to tooting@localnewsie.co.uk
St George’s Hospital will be be posting profiles of BAME staff members on their website to find out what...
Sarah Collins of First Touch NNU in Tooting celebrates Jeannie Walls, who helped launch First Touch in 1998...
First Touch charity, which was originally called The Friends of the Neonatal Unit at St George's, started in 1998. The charity has grown and continues to evolve and change to respond ...
Sarah Collins of First Touch NNU in Tooting celebrates the New Year with info on how they fund specialist training for their neonatal nursing team.
Today we are back in sunny Tooting after time away over the festive season. And in the spirit of 'New Year/New Us' we thought we would update ...
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Awards for 2019 were presented to the following members of the community: local police officers PCSO Alistair Baker, PC Nick Brett, PC Ali Qureshi, PCSO Xuan Dang, SC David Williamson, SC Ryan Beasley, PC Darius Jancy and PSCO James Whiting; local community champions Mr...
£3,750 was donated to the St George’s Hospital Charity from the proceeds of the Community Fun Day held in Broadwater Road, Tooting on 13th July 2019, at a ceremony at Gatton Muslim Primary School on 7th November.
The Fun Day is organised by the Al Risalah Trust schools, St...
More than 3,000 people across London with Type 1 diabetes have received life-changing diabetes monitors through the NHS Long Term Plan.
The innovative device, which is the size of a £2 coin and worn on the arm, means people with Type 1 diabetes do not have to carry out multiple finger-prick...
Sarah Collins of First Touch NNU in Tooting on how they mark Baby Loss Awareness Week and how they look out for siblings of babies at the neonatal unit.
October 9th to 15th is Baby Loss Awareness Week, a time for bereaved parents and families across the world to commemorate their...
Figures released today to mark the end of Sickle Cell Awareness Month (September) show that black people in Wandsworth are responding to the urgent need for donors.
Over the past year, 15% more black people have started donating blood in Wandsworth. There is a donor centre on the site of St...
Dr Nigel Kennea, Consultant Neonatologist who helped to care for Sonny, said: “I’m delighted that the team has been recognised for the care it provided at such a difficult time. It’s really amazing work from everyone in our multi-disciplinary team, including the doctors,...
You can imagine how wonderful it is for nursing staff and doctors to see the progression of some of the tiny and vulnerable patients that they have cared for, often for many months. One of the ways that we facilitate this is by funding the annual Christmas Party for neonatal graduates, held at the...
In 2016, a passionate father set himself the task of completing over 67,000 burpees by adding one rep every single day for a year to help raise money for St George’s Hospital in Tooting, after they saved the lives of his twin sons.
Having completed his challenge, Craig Peters then went ...
On Sunday 1 September, Ronald McDonald House Tooting hosted their very own house party as part of a nationwide celebration to mark the 30th birthday of Ronald McDonald House Charities UK.
Ronald McDonald House Tooting provides eight bedrooms and is just one of the 11 Houses across the UK providing an...
Congratulations to Charlotte Day, one of the midwives at St George’s in Tooting, on the birth of her baby boy Milo!
On Wednesday 14 August, Charlotte left work after delivering a baby at 7.30pm. Just seven hours later at 3am, she returned to the hospital in labour with her own baby!
A total of...
Anthony lost a lot of blood at the scene and doesn’t remember much about his accident.
Anthony said: “I threw myself off the saw. I don’t know whether it was my brain playing tricks on me, but it was like an out of body experience; I could see myself and see what I’d...