Category Archives: Sussex Innovation Centre

Council hits duff note as it helps pals set up digital studio

Posted on July 26, 2023 by insidecroydon

The council is claiming a role in spending £500,000 to establish a new “creative digital lab” off the Purley Way “to help support local businesses and enable residents to upskill” – despite there being existing facilities in the town centre … Continue reading →

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Hozah parks six-figure investment from Suss Ventures

Posted on April 14, 2021 by insidecroydon

A Croydon-based technology company has just landed a six-figure investment to boost the roll-out of its innovative parking charge payment system. Hozah – hozah.com – is a parking platform that uses ANPR – number plate recognition – technology to enable … Continue reading →

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Revealed: Council’s plan for town centre is 95th-best university

Posted on May 7, 2020 by insidecroydon

GENE BRODIE, education correspondent, on the increasingly desperate-looking moves to salvage anything from the town centre regeneration Croydon Council’s “cunning plan” to dig the town centre out of the hole created for it by the Whitgift Foundation and Westfield is … Continue reading →

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Council goes toe-to-toe with College over ‘university’

Posted on March 13, 2019 by insidecroydon

Croydon College and the University of Sussex have been providing degree courses in the town centre for a decade. Now the council, with its own multi-billion development plans in tatters, has decided to come up with a scheme of its … Continue reading →

Posted in "Hammersfield", Brick by Brick, Business, College Green, Colm Lacey, Croydon College, Croydon Council, Croydon School of Art, Education, Jo Negrini, Planning, South Bank Poly, Sussex Innovation Centre, Tony Newman, Whitgift Centre | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Apprentice candidate who got fired to offer business advice

Posted on March 21, 2017 by insidecroydon

A former contestant on The Apprentice is to collaborate with the Sussex Innovation Centre, the business incubator unit of the south coast university that has a base in No1 Croydon, which will see a “start-up studio” established where small and … Continue reading →

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