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Category Archives: South Norwood Community Kitchen
Helplines and financial aid that can help through winter
The volunteers at the South Norwood Community Kitchen is dealing with impact of homelessness and in-work poverty on a daily basis. Here, they offer an at-a-glance guide to the help and emergency services that are available to those experiencing some … Continue reading
Fighting fund’s £1,000 donation helps at heart of community
Earlier this month, Croydon Council withdrew its ludicrous High Court injunction against this website. Inside Croydon pledged that any money raised by readers for the #KerswellBallsFund, its legal fighting fund, that was not needed for the court case would be donated … Continue reading
SWLLC Temporary Accommodation lunch, Socco Cheta, Dec 1
Posted in Community associations, Housing, Regina Road Residents' Support Group, Socco Cheta Community Hub, South Norwood Community Kitchen, South West London Law Centres
Tagged Regina Road Residents' Support Group, Socco Cheta, South Norwood Community Kitchen, South West London Law Centre, SWLLC, Temporary accommodation
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The 21 charities and voluntary groups helping out this winter
The innovative community group at the South Norwood Community Kitchen has recently begun operating out of the Socco Cheta hub on Portland Road, offering their regular Saturday lunches but now also running a “pay-what-you-can-afford” café at lunchtimes on Tuesdays to … Continue reading
Mayor condemned for ‘cruel’ treatment of street homeless
When other local authorities are looking to provide ‘warm banks’ for the poor and winter shelters for the homeless, Croydon’s cash-strapped council is seizing vulnerable people’s possessions in their effort to tidy up their swanky offices. By STEVEN DOWNES Tory … Continue reading
Posted in Bernard Weatherill House, Charity, Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon Nightwatch, Housing, Mayor Jason Perry, Property, South Norwood Community Kitchen, Stuart King
Tagged Bernard Weatherill House, Boris Johnson, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Emma Gardiner, Fisher's Folly, Homelessness, London Borough of Croydon, Mario Creatura, Mayor Jason Perry, SNCK, South Norwood Community Kitchen, STUART KING, Tory
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Town centre PSPO will just drive problems out to the suburbs
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The Conservative Mayor’s proposals for a new Public Space Protection Order in the town centre will just displace anti-social behaviour, while failing to help the targets of the on-the-spot fines, says RIA PATEL, pictured left, a Green Party … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Business, Community associations, Crime, Croydon Council, Fairfield, Mayor Jason Perry, Policing, Pubs, Ria Patel, South Norwood Community Kitchen, Waddon
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Mayor, Fairfield, Green Party, Labour, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of Croydon, PSPO, Public Space Protection Order, Ria Patel, South Norwood, South Norwood Community Kitchen, Tory
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Labour councillors accused of high street ‘social cleansing’
A community action group has responded angrily to Labour councillors in South Norwood signing up to a police scheme intended to clear the area of street drinkers Volunteers at the South Norwood Community Kitchen have characterised the plans as “social … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Charity, Christopher Herman, Community associations, Crime, Croydon Council, London-wide issues, Louis Carserides, Mayor Jason Perry, Policing, Socco Cheta Community Hub, South Norwood, South Norwood Community Kitchen, Stella Nabukeera
Tagged Christopher Herman, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Labour, Louis Carserides, SNCK, Socco Cheta, South Norwood, South Norwood Community Kitchen, Stella Nabukeera, Steve Reed OBE
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Community Kitchen’s cooking up a storm in South Norwood
Something quite awe-inspiring is happening in South Norwood. After six years of what they describe as community activism through food, cooking up and delivering tens of thousands of meals to the elderly, the poor and anyone who wanted some decent … Continue reading
‘Council must freeze its unnecessary 4.1% rent increase’
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Ahead of a protest on Monday night, EMMA GARDINER, pictured right, calls on Town Hall leaders to abandon their proposed council rent hike until all their properties meet the habitable homes standard A long-awaited independent survey recently published … Continue reading
