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Category Archives: Bishop of Croydon
Children’s charity marks 175 years with cathedral service
The Reedham Children’s Trust, a children’s charity based on Purley’s Old Lodge Lane, will celebrate its 175th anniversary next week with a special thanksgiving service at Southwark Cathedral. Between 1814 and 1854, Reedham’s founder, Dr Rev Andrew Reed, established six … Continue reading
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Tagged Purley, Reedham, Reedham's Children's Trust
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Twin towers disruption forces bishop’s staff to move offices
Even God’s work can’t tolerate the building development going on in Croydon town centre any longer. Staff working for the Bishop of Croydon have been forced to move out of their office in St Matthew’s House on George Street because … Continue reading
Minster gets new vicar but Negrini and Newman miss ceremony
The congregation at Croydon Minster, Croydon’s parish church for more than a century, has a new vicar this Sunday, following a formal service this week. Canon Andrew Bishop was named as the new priest-in-charge at the Minster by the Diocese … Continue reading
Bishop joins call to ‘honour legacy’ of the Kindertransport
Jonathan Clark, the Bishop of Croydon, has this week joined a call from nearly 50 religious leaders calling for the British Government to “honour the legacy” of the Kindertransport, which rescued thousands of Jewish and other children from the Nazis, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bishop of Croydon, Jonathan Clark
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Tory candidate in Norbury caught out lying, honest to God
KEN LEE reports on an unheralded intervention from on high on the eve of the local elections A Conservative candidate standing for election in today’s local elections has been reproached for not telling the truth over religious matters in the … Continue reading
Bishop of Croydon makes amnesty appeal on immigration
The Bishop of Croydon, Jonathan Clark, has today entered the debate on the government’s “hostile” immigration strategy by calling for the immediate release of a mother and daughter who have been interned in “inhuman” conditions at immigrants’ removal centre at … Continue reading
Chair of Croydon Foster Carers gets New Year’s Honour
Amid the rows over the benighted Nick Clegg getting a knighthood (for services to austerity and student debt?) and Theresa May desperately doling out baubles to the Tory 1922 Committee for keeping her in power, there were some gongs announced … Continue reading
We will remember them: Croydon’s Remembrance Day services
Remembrance Day, paying tribute to the sacrifices of military and service personnel in conflicts past and present, will be observed in Croydon on Sunday, at the war memorial outside the Town Hall and at Croydon Minster. Conducted by the Rt … Continue reading
Refugee decision will help traffickers, says Bishop of Croydon
The Bishop of Croydon has joined the chorus of voices condemning the Tory government’s abandonment of a commitment to take in child refugees from the civil war in Syria and the Jungle camp at Calais. The Rt Rev Jonathan Clark … Continue reading
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Croydon Minster stages 150th anniversary great fire events
Discover the story of the devastating fire which destroyed almost all of what is now Croydon Minster in 1867 with a series of special 150th anniversary events staged over the first fortnight of the new year. Sat Jan 7, 11am: … Continue reading
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Civic and religious leaders to mourn tram victims together
Croydon’s civic and religious leaders came together this afternoon to express their sympathy for the victims and the bereaved of today’s horrific Sandilands tram accident. Sunday’s annual civic service, to be held at Croydon Minster to remember the fallen in … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Bishop of Croydon, Church and religions, Commuting, Croydon Minster, Sandilands derailment, Tramlink, Transport, Wayne Lawlor
Tagged Addiscombe West, Bishop Jonathan Clark, Croydon Minster, Croydon Tramlink, Sandilands, Sandilands derailment, Trams, Wayne Trakas-Lawlor
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Remembrance Sunday service at Croydon Minster, Nov 13
Croydon’s annual Civic Service of Remembrance, held in conjunction with local branches of the Royal British Legion, will take place at Croydon Minster at 11am, on Sunday November 13. The service at the Minster will be conducted by the Bishop … Continue reading
Boswell to leave Croydon Minster after 21 years’ service
Croydon’s Establishment is about to undergo significant change, with three leading figures associated with the Whitgift Foundation leaving their jobs in the next few months. The headmasters of two of the Foundation’s large independent schools are both standing down, Trinity’s … Continue reading
Bishop says Britain should be leading in Europe, not leaving
The case for remaining in the European Union has the backing of the Bishop of Croydon, who says that Britain should adopt a greater, leading role in Europe. Jonathan Clark, who chaired Croydon Council’s Fairness Commission, has this week published … Continue reading
Bishop issues Holy Week response to Brussels bombings
Jonathan Clark, the Bishop of Croydon, tonight issued a Holy Week message which called for hope to triumph over the hate provoked by the terrorist bombings in Brussels. Hatred, Bishop Clark wrote, “leads to the success of the suicide bomber”. … Continue reading
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Tagged Bishop Jonathan Clark, Bishop of Croydon, Brussels, terrorism
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‘I wasn’t played’ says Bishop after the missed Opportunity
After a year’s work funded by £200,000 from the council, the Croydon Opportunity and Fairness Commission delivered its final report yesterday. Here, the commission chair, the Rt Rev Jonathan Clark, in an exclusive interview with STEVEN DOWNES, answers questions such … Continue reading
Fairness Commission report recommends Council Tax rise
Croydon’s Labour-run council should take full advantage of Tory Chancellor Gideon Osborne’s recent decision to allow a 2 per cent increase on Council Tax towards paying for adult social care. That’s a key recommendation in the final report of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Broad Green, Croydon Council, Fairness Commission, Hammersfield, Hammerson, Labour, New Addington, Opportunity and Fairness Commission, Selhurst, Thornton Heath, Tony Newman, Tory, Waddon, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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‘Interesting’: the best Newman can say of his Fairness report
Is this what fulfills the definition of “damned by faint praise”? After committing £200,000 from Croydon’s hard-pressed budgets towards the Opportunity and Fairness Commission, this is all Labour council leader Tony Newman could find to say about the Commission’s interim … Continue reading
Fairness Commission to stage Open Day, Sep 1
Croydon’s Opportunity and Fairness Commission is to stage an Open Day on Tuesday, September 1. “The Open Day will be an opportunity for members of the public to directly contribute to the Commission’s work,” they announced. The Commission, a pet … Continue reading
Fairness Commission’s youth competition gets just 10 entries
What do you get for £200,000 of public dosh? Not a lot, it seems, if the underwhelming response to Croydon’s Opportunity and Fairness Commission’s latest “youth engagement” efforts are anything to go by. Only 10 youngsters from across London’s most … Continue reading
Fairness Commission’s iPad prize struggles to get response
When the crunch comes in Croydon over Tory Chancellor Gideon Osborne’s cuts, Council Tax-payers may be less than delighted to find that the £200,000 being spent on the borough’s Opportunity and Fairness Commission is going largely on a contract with … Continue reading
Fairness Commission provides Blue Labour with opportunity
The consequences of the General Election result continue to roll out. Such as: What does Croydon’s Labour-run council do with its very Ed Miliband-esque Fairness and Opportunity Commission? “Fairness” is so redolent of the Milband era, it appears that Croydon’s … Continue reading
Bishop of Croydon preaches for change on the environment
In the week that the Pope published an encyclical on the crisis of climate change and the environment, closer to home, the Bishop of Croydon has also called on those in power to take urgent action to save the planet. … Continue reading
Opportunity fails to knock for Commission volunteers
It’s beginning to appear as if the Croydon Opportunity and Fairness Commission is not being regarded as much of an opportunity at all. An email has flooded into Inside Croydon’s inbox this afternoon. Its subject? “One Week to make a … Continue reading
