Coming to Croydon
- Albert Einstein – Relativity Speaking, Spread Eagle, Nov 12-15
- Oval Tavern Folk Club, Nov 14
- South Croydon business breakfast, Nov 15
- Croydon Assembly, Ruskin House, Nov 15
- Wandle Park community garden work day, Nov 16
- Streatham-Croydon women’s rugby training, Frant Road, Nov 16
- NCT Croydon Christmas Fair, St Mark’s Purley, Nov 16
- Personal safety training for volunteers, Nov 17
- David Lean Cinema, Effie Gray, Nov 20
- Norwood Society Talk: Lambeth’s Archives, Nov 20
- Choose Your Own Documentary, Spread Eagle Theatre, Nov 21-22
- David Lean Cinema, Lilting, Nov 22
- Streatham-Croydon women’s rugby training, Frant Road, Nov 23
- David Lean Cinema, Wakolda, Nov 27
- The Last Sense of Sudden, Spread Eagle Theatre, Nov 27-29
- Ghost Stories for Christmas, Spread Eagle Theatre, Dec 3
- Fog Horn Funnies, Spread Eagle Theatre, Dec 6
- Coulsdon Yulefest, Dec 6-7
- Oval Tavern Folk Club, Dec 7
- South Croydon business breakfast, Dec 13
- Friends of the Earth Green Beanfeast, Dec 15 (book by Dec 1)
- South Croydon business breakfast, Jan 24
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It seems that every other programme on TV is some sort of poverty porn but I’ve yet to see one that shows anyone at the lower end of the social scale in a good light. They all seem to tow the DWP line of stigmatizing anyone on any kind of benefit as workshy and undeserving
Appreciate your concerns, Peter. We share them.
That is why before we published this, we conducted some basic editorial checks and obtained from the producers undertakings that this was not just another Benefits Street-style poverty porn programme.
There’s always an element of “they would say that, wouldn’t they?” to such undertakings.
But then, the readership of Inside Croydon is discerning and, with certain notable exceptions, intelligent enough to make their own decisions. Anyone applying to participate in the programme will need at all times to consider their own best interests.
Or have we, in 2014, reached a point where such a caveat needs to be stated for the hard of thinking?