Friends of Tooting Common’s annual Pumpkin Parade will be on Sunday 25 October, from 4pm to 5pm, in the area by the cafe. Please see poster attached.
This should again be a very enjoyable event. Everyone is very welcome!
Friends of Tooting Common are concerned about dangerous cycling by certain bikes, particularly electric bikes, travelling too fast on the Common, particularly on the Culverden path and other parts of the shared pedestrian/ cycle path. We have been in correspondance on this with Councillor Paul White, Cabinet Member for the Environment on Wandsworth Council. The full correspondance is here:
Further to this correspondance, while we welcome the Council’s recognition of the problem of dangerous cycling, the enforcement exercises being undertaken by the Parks Police and the apparent intention to consider further measures, we think that the Council’s current approach, and certainly any clear timescales for introducing further measures, are not sufficient to deal with this serious issue. Our concerns remain. We will be raising the issue with the Council again, and are monitoring the position.
If you have any comments on this subject, please email them to fotcinformation@gmail.com
Tuesday 20 October – Litter pick. Meet at the cafe at 11am
Thursday 22 October – Walk “Around Emmanuel Field”, starting at 11am at the Woodfield Pavilion
Sunday 25 October – Litter pick. Meet at the cafe at 11am
Sunday 25 October, Pumpkin Parade, 4-5pm by cafe.
Tuesday 3 November – Litter pick. Meet at the cafe at 11am
Sunday 8 November – Litter pick. Meet at the cafe at 11am
Sunday 8 November – FOTC Annual General Meeting: 2.30pm at St Anselm’s Church Lower Hall, 9 Tooting Bec Road
For more information, please email fotcinformation@gmail.com.
Friends of Tooting Common carries out frequent litter picks on the Common. The next pick will be on Tuesday 20 October, starting at 11am at the cafe on the Common. Please bring a pair of sturdy gloves.
Following that, the next pick will be on Sunday 25 October, starting at 11am at the cafe.
Friends of Tooting Common run photo competitions for Tooting Common. Photos can be of any aspect of Tooting Common, particularly one which brings out its distinctive character.
The winner of FOTC’s photo competition for January to March 2026 is Lois Vallely, for the excellent photo attached.
Congratulations to Lois!
FOTC are running a photo competition for the Common for April to June 2026. Please send photos for this by 30 June to fotcinformation@gmail.com, and entitle the email “FOTC photo competition”.
A number of people post photos of the Common on the FoTC Facebook group, particularly of trees and plants.
We (FOTC) draw these together every few months and post them here. The most recent set of photos is here:
We hope these photos help celebrate the Common, particularly for people who aren’t often able to get out onto it.
Many thanks to all of the photographers, and particularly to Roy (Vickery) for his very informative posts, and for sharing his botanical expertise with us. Many thanks also to Eamonn (Richardson) for drawing these photos together.
Some photos for previous months are:
FOTC April/May 2020
We hope this will provide a longer-term record of how the Common looks at different times.
Alongside circulating these photos, we also run regular photo competitions for the Common. (See separate blog post on this.)