Londoners are invited to enjoy the last of the summer by attending a two-day celebration of the city and its diverse cultures being staged next weekend.
Community celebration: backed with National Lottery money, more than 200 events are being staged across London next weekend
From Friday September 12 to Sunday September 14, 200 community groups – based across every London borough – will host events as part of the Mayor’s Community Weekend.
The Weekend comes thanks to a partnership between The National Lottery Community Fund and Sir Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London.
More than £400,000 of National Lottery funding has been awarded to groups to host community-led activities.
Events planned for Croydon include performances in Central Parade, New Addington, a “Mayor’s community get together” in Lloyd Park and “a community reimagines its library” in Sanderstead, where Croydon Mayor Jason Perry has recently closed its public library.
Over the Mayor’s Community Weekend, visitors can expect a range of activities where they can make lasting memories – including street parties or picnics in a park to bring neighbours together.
The weekend also builds on the Mayor’s Loved and Wanted campaign, which was launched earlier this year to remind Londoners that no matter their background or circumstances, they belong in London. Through art, community projects and public messaging, Loved and Wanted is helping to show that every Londoner is valued and plays an important role in the future success of the capital.
City’s strength: London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan
Sir Sadiq said: “The Mayor’s Community Weekend is a fantastic opportunity to join together and celebrate the people and places that make our capital so special. From street parties to garden gatherings, there are free community events taking place across London – showcasing that our city’s greatest strength is our diversity.
“I’m proud to support community groups across every borough to host these great events and remind all Londoners that you are Loved and Wanted in our city, as we build a better London for everyone.”
National Lottery players raise more than £30million a week for good causes across the country. Thanks to them, last year The National Lottery Community Fund was able to distribute more than half a billion pounds (£615.4million) of life-changing funding to communities. More than 80% of The National Lottery Community Fund’s game-changing grants are for less than £20,000 – going to grassroots groups and local charities at the heart of their communities.
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We await news of P-P Perry’s dubious activities this week!
Our country is, and always has been, a wonderful mix of people from different backgrounds and cultures. This diversity has made us what we are and it is something we should celebrate.
Just a fact-check. Our society is totally different compared with pre-WW2. Today 41 percent of Londoners are foreign-born, an unprecedented fact. This presents all with a challenge for what Tony Bliar and Co call ‘community cohesion’.
A lot of things are different compared to before 1939 Chris.
For a start, there was a British Empire on which the sun never set, and we bossed those foreigners around and gave them what for, by Jingo!
And there was no crime in them days, you could leave your door unlocked and everyone knew their place. Or some such bollocks.
About a third of the people you are being xenophobic about are overseas students paying to study here or people working here on time-limited visas. The others are mostly bloody foreigners, coming over here, with their skills and work ethic, doing the jobs we can’t or won’t do.
Will you be joining the troublemaking convicted thug with the Irish passport who calls himself “Tommy” and his fanatical flag-waving fascists at the big march up town tomorrow?
I don’t know why you picked WW2, our society is completely different to ten years ago when we were still in the EU.
And that was different to the society before that, and the one before that, and so on. Free societies change. The only societies that don’t change are ones governed by strict rules telling people how to live and excluding anyone who is different. If you want to live like the Amish or the Taliban then that is your choice, but I suspect that most people don’t want to live in some authoritarian system trying to re-create a non-existent past.
I also don’t understand why you think where someone was born is relevant. I wasn’t born in London. Why is that a challenge for you?
https://insidecroydon.com/2015/09/04/i-dont-come-from-round-here-i-am-a-migrant-too/
Begs the question, is Christopher Myers a Londoner, born and bred? His Linkedin profile tells us he was educated at Kent College in Canterbury, where he studied “Englist Literature”. Is he in reality a Kentish Man or a Man of Kent?
Like I said, it’s a challenge for us all. The extreme left always brands anyone who points out the challenges as a raving xenophobe. No wonder society is more divided than ever..
Raving xenophobe!
If you can show how to delete that effing profile, please tell me. It’s a beeping handicap.