Category Archives: Events
The BATCA (Balham And Tooting Community Association) Community Awards have been announced, with eleven individuals and teams recognised for their service to the community.
Though the celebration evening planned for tonight, Thursday 19th March, could not go ahead, BATCA would proudly...
Work and Play Scrapstore (WaPS) – the Tooting-based re-use charity which promotes artful re-use of of donated surplus/waste materials – is rebuilding the second of the two Towers of Summerstown, brick by brick, with the help of its members.
The fun begins on Tuesday January 28th, 2pm-5pm,...
Jan, 23, 2020
Jane Burdett has long had a passion for improving the experience for patients and families in the General Intensive Care Unit at St George’s Hospital. Jane founded Molly’s Smile Fund after losing her 19 year old daughter in 2015 after a short, gruelling battle with a rare blood...
Nov, 21, 2019
Following Tuesday’s Hazelhurst Road V2 75th Commemoration, we wanted to share the moving speech by local historian Geoff Simmons, letters read by Lynda Cazeaux, and a poem by John Byrne.
Speech by Geoff Simmons, read at the commemoration
The summer of 1944, 75 years ago...
£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...
The Tooting Chapter of The Ahmadiyya Muslim Association is to host its annual Peace Symposium in Tooting on Sunday 17th November 2019.
More than 150 guests will attend the event, including parliamentarians, police officers, faith and civic leaders, as well as representatives from numerous charities...
We moved back into league action with our 100% record on the line away to promotion hopefuls Harlow Town. It was always going to be one of the tougher away trips and so it panned out. We took the lead on the stroke of half time with a strike from Razzaq Coleman but Harlow soon equalised a...
Tootopia returns on 20-22 September 2019 for another end-of-summer neighbourhood festival!
Tootopia is Tooting’s neighbourhood festival championing local food, drink and culture! With roots in 2012, Tootopia rebranded in 2015 and since then, has grown to become one of South West London’s...
For the second year, the Royal College of Art (RCA) has teamed up with WAOH to offer bursaries to five young artists aged 16 - 25. As well as providing them with a mentoring session at the RCA, WAOH offers the recipients a fantastic platform to showcase their work at the RCA’s...
Tooting Foodival is a celebration of locally grown produce cooked by local cooks for the community. This year it will be taking place on Saturday 14th September, 11am to 5pm, at Mushkil Assan at 222 Upper Tooting Road and on Hereward Road.
Last year the festival had over 700 people indulge in the ...
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Aug, 12, 2019
On Sunday, everyone is welcome to come along and enjoy the space – no need to book.
Bring a picnic, and they'll provide activities, green space, shade and plenty of cool water! They’ll also be offering a particular welcome to families with young children or babies – ...
Jul, 25, 2019
The new football season is just around the corner and Tooting & Mitcham FC are raring to go! Here’s Roger with his season preview...
Here we are again – the Women’s World Cup, the Cricket World Cup and Wimbledon are out of the way, so the football season must be on the...
A message from Kate Allan, Secretary of the Balham and Tooting Community Association (BATCA), on Saturday’s fantastic Community Fun Day!
Perfect weather, a great crowd and loads to do made this a very special day.
Everyone was there – young people, families, community groups,...
Jul, 15, 2019
Plans for London's first mosque knife bank are to be revealed at a special event in Tooting this Saturday 6 July. This follows Wandsworth's second fatal stabbing in the last two weeks.
Bishops, imams, therapists, youth workers and former prisoners are coming together at the Tooting Knife Crime ...