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Warehouse Theatre closes, thanks to comedians on council
The Warehouse Theatre, stripped of its £30,000 annual grant from Croydon Council, is now facing closure. There is an appeal to try to raise money from the theatre’s supporters in a bid to re-open the venue, but there is also … Continue reading
Croydon replaces £765 per day interim with… another interim
Inside Croydon’s regular reader will remember how we were the first to reveal the £765 per day fees paid by Croydon Council to Paul Davies, the long-time “temporary” executive who was the interim head of procurement, even on those occasions … Continue reading
Whatever it is that I’m told to say, I agree with it
For the Bank Holiday weekend, we thought you might enjoy this, the “latest YouTube sensation”, apparently. The rictus grimace delivered by Mr Shorten after his first response is particularly telling, we suggest. It might spring to mind the next time … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, Croydon Council, Outside Croydon
Tagged Bank Holiday, Council Tax, Croydon, England, London, London Borough of Croydon, Taberner House, YouTube
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Dear Mr Edwards. If there’s anything you want to know, just ask
Inside Croydon thoroughly approves of and admires the online Freedom of Information tool, WhatDoTheyKnow.com, and we would encourage anyone to make use of it if they have a serious question about some aspect of a public body that, for some … Continue reading
Council paid interim’s £1,650 invoices for work on riots report
An “interim” at Croydon Council was invoicing up to £1,650 a time during the period he was working on Croydon’s “independent” report into last August’s riots, Inside Croydon has discovered. An invoice paid by Croydon Council, uncovered by Inside Croydon … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Croydon 8/8, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Dudley Mead, London-wide issues, Malcolm Wicks MP, Margaret Mead, Policing, Riots Review Panel, Sean Fitzsimons, West Croydon
Tagged Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, London, London Borough of Croydon, Malcolm Wicks, Taberner House, Whitgift Foundation
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More on procurement: Croydon’s “urgent” £500,000 contract
Let’s hope that Bernard Weatherill House, the monument to delusion at Croydon Council, at the centre of their £450 million urban regeneration scheme, will have revolving doors. Because no sooner does Chief Exec Jon Rouse and his lacky, Nathan Elvery, … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Jon Rouse, Nathan Elvery, URV
Tagged Cannes, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Human Resources, Jon Rouse, London Borough of Croydon, Nathan Elvery
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“Procurement” or how Croydon recruits while axing staff
There’s a recession on, isn’t there, with jobs and council services being cut across the board? Not in Conservative-controlled Croydon, where a dedicated website is being used to recruit 10 staff in management roles for one department, most of the … Continue reading
Latest Cannes trip gets Rouse his moment in The Sun
Maybe openness, transparency and accountability to public scrutiny does work. Since Inside Croydon was launched nearly two years ago, we have often returned to the council’s spending on its annual jolly to the South of France for £248,000 per year … Continue reading
