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Newman breaks manifesto promise over Boxpark festival
Tony Newman’s Labour council has broken one of its 2014 manifesto commitments, after diverting £160,000 of public money from its intended free annual music festival to pay towards private business Boozepark’s opening shindig next month. The council-run Ambition Festival was … Continue reading
Posted in 2014 council elections, 2018 council elections, Ambition Festival, Art, Ashcroft Theatre, David Lean Cinema Campaign, Fairfield Halls, Music, Riesco Collection, Theatre, Timothy Godfrey, Tony Newman, Warehouse Theatre
Tagged Boozepark, Boxpark, Conservative, East Croydon station, Fairfield Halls, Labour, Mayor, Sadiq Khan, Tony Newman, Tory
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Fairfield Halls CEO was paid in full prior to administration
The financial collapse of the charitable body which managed the Fairfield Halls did not prevent its chief executive, Simon Thomsett, receiving his salary payments in full right up to last Friday. Thomsett, who had worked at Fairfield Halls for six … Continue reading
London Mozart Players make the move to Upper Norwood
The London Mozart Players are moving offices next month to St John the Evangelist in Upper Norwood. With the temporary closure of the Fairfield Halls, the current location of their administration office, “this move will see the LMP become a … Continue reading
Council’s shock non-announcement: Murray handed culture job
The sheer predictability of Croydon Council over its internal stitch-ups on senior jobs is so crass that sometimes even they appear embarrassed by it. Paula Murray has been confirmed as Croydon’s culture director in a permanent capacity. Hitherto the deputy … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Ambition Festival, Art, Ashcroft Theatre, Boxpark, Business, Croydon Council, East Croydon, Fairfield Halls, Jo Negrini, Music, Paul Scott, Paula Murray, Stanley Halls, Theatre, Timothy Godfrey
Tagged Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Fairfield Halls, Jo Negrini, Labour, Paula Murray, Timothy Godfrey
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Murray being lined up for full-time £80,000 director job
Cash-strapped Croydon Council is ploughing on with plans to recruit a full-time “culture czar” on a salary of around £80,000 a year, despite having had a recruitment freeze on more mundane council jobs for the past six months. Oddly, no … Continue reading
Carers’ information day, Fairfield Halls, Jun 8
Posted in Activities, Fairfield Halls, Health, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Fairfield Halls, Whitgift Foundation
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Command performance will be Mozart Players’ royal celebration
The Earl and Countess of Wessex are to be the guests of honour at the final classical music concert to be held at the Fairfield Halls before its temporary closure for refurbishment. The Halls were opened in 1962 with a performance … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Fairfield Halls, London Mozart Players, Music
Tagged Croydon, Earl of Wessex, Fairfield Halls, London Mozart Players
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Fairfield’s Last Night of the Proms to go out with a bang
The Fairfield Halls’ last week of performances before it undergoes a two-year, £30-million refit is to be marked with a rousing and dramatic concert from the one of the venue’s regular musical fund-raisers, The Last Night of the Croydon Proms, … Continue reading
Theatres Trust offers to review £30m Fairfield Halls scheme
In a letter to Croydon Council, the Theatres Trust has welcomed many of the proposals for refurbishing the Fairfield Halls, which is due to close in July for a £30 million refit. But in the letter the Trust’s planning adviser Ross … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Ashcroft Theatre, Fairfield Halls, Kate Vennell, Music, Theatre
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Tory
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Croydon facing traffic gridlock caused by new Westfield plan
The revised plans for a gigantic supermall submitted last week by Westfield and Hammerson threaten to send central Croydon into a state of traffic gridlock for years to come. The shopping centre developers’ scheme could hit hard the plans for … Continue reading
Car park gallery will force drivers to use Hammersfield spaces
Bit by bit, the Whitgift and Westfield takeover of the town centre continues, aided and abetted as usual by our pliant councillors. It has been announced – via a news report in Architects’ Journal – that part of the Fairfield … Continue reading
Charity comedy show ticket sales undermined by Fairfield
Charity workers in Croydon are worried that they have been caught in the cross-fire between the Fairfield Halls and the Town Hall in the bitter dispute over the arts venue’s future, with what ought to be one of the borough’s … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, Fairfield Halls, Kate Vennell, Patricia Hay-Justice
Tagged Crystal Palace, Fairfield Halls, Kevin Day, Patricia Hay-Justice
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Croydon’s free Jobs Fair offers £5m-worth of business
Hundreds of jobs and business opportunities are up for grabs at this year’s South London Jobs Fair, being staged at the Fairfield Halls on June 23 – where entry to the event is free. Last year, around a hundred people … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Business, Fairfield Halls
Tagged Fairfield Halls, South London Jobs Fair
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Newman’s £18m ‘cast-iron guarantee’ that bucks the market
WALTER CRONXITE on how a Labour-run council that says it is committed to housing the homeless meanwhile needs to maximise profits from a property development at College Green The people of Croydon should be worried. Tony Newman has offered what … Continue reading
Fairfield’s Vennell: The phasing argument is ‘no longer useful’
Kate Vennell, the chair of the charity board which runs the Fairfield Halls, has today dismissed any further calls for a phased redevelopment of Croydon’s arts venue, which is due to close in July to allow a £30 million council-funded … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Fairfield Halls, Kate Vennell, Timothy Godfrey
Tagged Conservative, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Kate Vennell, Labour, Timothy Godfrey, Tory
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Mayor’s fundraising comedy night, Fairfield Halls, Apr 17
Posted in Comedy, Fairfield Halls, Patricia Hay-Justice
Tagged Fairfield Halls, Kevin Day, Mark Steel, Patricia Hay-Justice
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Part-time culture director to get £39,000 for six months’ work
BELLA BARTOCK, our arts correspondent, discovers that splitting the time of a Brighton council executive is raising questions at both ends of the A23 The council’s new executive in charge of culture, Paula Murray, will be paid £39,000 for her … Continue reading
Boris’s farewell tour at the Fairfield goes out with a whimper
The hottest ticket in town? WALTER CRONXITE toddled along to the Fairfield Halls last night and found a faded star who had forgotten his lines So that’s how eight years of Boris’s London reign ends – a public meeting in … Continue reading
Done deal: Fairfield Halls £30m redevelopment starts in July
The Fairfield Halls will close this summer to undergo a £30 million redevelopment, after the venue’s managment board finally agreed to the investment scheme proposed by the Halls’ owners, Croydon Council. The council’s plans – based on a secret consultants’ … Continue reading
