Category Archives: Community associations

Choir records a classic as fund-raiser in memory of Elianne

Croydon Voices, a community choir, has recorded their version of the soul classic Stand By Me in memory of Elianne Andam, the schoolgirl killed in Croydon last week.

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Hundreds turn out to protest against plan to close nurseries

Children as young as three or four are being threatened with the consequences of the crass mismanagement of the local council and the failed £1bn property gamble by the borough’s biggest land-owners. By education correspondent GENE BRODIE It was all … Continue reading

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Yellow Rattle community sowing, Crystal Palace Park, Oct 20

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Scouts Tabletop sale, Sainsbury’s Westow Street, Oct 8 and 15

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Old Palace parents cancel protest in respect for murdered girl

A campaign launched less than a week ago to fight for the future of Old Palace School has cancelled plans to stage a protest tonight, out of respect for the schoolgirl murdered in Croydon yesterday. Elianne Andam, the 15-year-old who … Continue reading

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Mayor Perry has 48 hours to save Love Lane’s playground

Croydon’s first elected Mayor, Tory Jason Perry, is showing himself to be just as useless and unreliable as Labour’s discredited Tony Newman, one of his predecessors in the role as council leader. The failures of both third-rate politicians could now … Continue reading

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Thousands sign petition in campaign to save Old Palace School

There were tears in the playground at the Old Palace primary on Melville Avenue last Friday, from young girls and some teachers, as the news seeped through that their school had been condemned to closure by the Whitgift Foundation. Inside … Continue reading

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Perry’s latest money-making wheeze? Big Brother parking

Croydon’s vandal-backing Mayor, Jason Perry, who showboats his opposition to ULEZ in public, now wants to hit motorists in Croydon in the pocket with his own money-grabbing parking app. Perry’s new fans from the anti-15minute city mob will be outraged. … Continue reading

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Riddlesdown Art Showcase and sale, Mitchley Hill, Sep 24

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Community campaigns join forces to fight for nursery schools

Parents’ groups call on £84,000 per year Croydon Mayor to provide assurance that none of the borough’s maintained nurseries will be closed Two volunteer community groups have joined forces to organise public opinion against the latest proposed cuts to services … Continue reading

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Squatters do a bunk as bailiffs smash Brick by Brick’s doors

Seven bailiffs, acting as “Representatives of the Owner”, wasted no time in descending on Brick by Brick’s former offices in George Street on Saturday afternoon to evict the squatters who had been occupying the building for almost two weeks. A … Continue reading

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Save Crosfield and Selhurst nurseries, SNCK, Sep 30

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Charity Quiz Night, St Peter’s, South Croydon, Oct 14

 

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Canning & Clyde RA Quiz Night, Addiscombe, Oct 7

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Apple Day at Addiscombe Railway Park, from 2pm, Sep 17

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Free money! Trust for London offering racial justice grants

The Trust for London, with funding from the City Bridge Trust, is offering grants to black Londoners from its racial justice fund. Black Londoners are more than twice as likely to be in poverty than their white counterparts. “We want … Continue reading

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Historic England tries to future-proof dinos with 3D models

Twenty-nine interactive 3D models of the surviving Crystal Palace Victorian dinosaur sculptures have been created by Historic England, in collaboration with the Friends of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs. The models let you get up close and personal with the Grade I-listed … Continue reading

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Central Hill Estate Open House Festival, Crystal Palace, Sep 17

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Book and Cake Sale, St Peter’s Church, South Croydon, Sep 16

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Squatters take over Brick by Brick’s abandoned office building

Perhaps this is the start of a people’s fightback against the Croydon Establishment. A group of squatters calling themselves “Reclaim Croydon” has moved in to the abandoned offices of Brick by Brick in the town centre, to show the high … Continue reading

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Purley Scouts start Croydon’s first ‘drey’ for little Squirrels

The 29th Purley Scout Group is launching Croydon’s first Squirrels group, a brand-new branch of the Scout movement for children aged four and five. Squirrels offers the best Scouts has to offer – learning by doing and getting into the … Continue reading

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Croydon police investigated over black man’s death in custody

This latest probe by the watchdog follows the misconduct hearing announced earlier this week for two other Met officers over the arrest and hand-cuffing last year of an innocent black schoolboy Two Croydon police officers are under criminal investigation for … Continue reading

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Lawyers start to look into Croydon’s temporary accommodation

A public meeting today with public interest lawyers could represent the start of a potentially long campaign to get better living conditions for hundreds of families currently housed in three former office blocks on London Road between Thornton Heath and … Continue reading

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Here is the news, illustrated talk, Crystal Palace, Sep 11

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Table Top Sale, St Andrew’s Southbridge Road, Sep 9

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