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Rutherford School Christmas Fair, South Croydon, Dec 14
Posted in Activities, Charity, Education, Garwood Foundation, Schools, South Croydon
Tagged Christmas, Garwood Foundation, South Croydon
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Something for the weekend – our latest news panel podcast
Here’s our latest Croydon Insider news podcast, a politician-free zone where a panel of Croydon figures delve into the news that really matters to you. Our guests for our November episode are David Morgan, Croydon Minster archivist and author of … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Community associations, Coulsdon, Croydon Council, Croydon Insider, Croydonites Festival, Garwood Foundation, Inside Croydon, Schools, Socco Cheta Community Hub, South Norwood Community Kitchen, Under The Flyover, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Anna Arthur, Brian Finegan, Coulsdon, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydonites, Croydonites Festival, David Morgan, Dr Ross White, Garwood Foundation, Hammersfield, South Norwood, South Norwood Community Kitchen, The Croydon Insider, Under The Flyover, Westfield, Whitgift Centre
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Welby’s resignation could yet have consequences in Croydon
The alleged cover-up of the Church of England’s abuse scandal is echoed in the handling of events at £55,000 per year private school in Croydon, where there was a Met Police investigation last year. By STEVEN DOWNES The Archbishops of … Continue reading
Posted in Bishop of Croydon, Charity, Christopher Ramsey, Church and religions, Croydon Minster, Rosemarie Mallett, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
Tagged Addington Palace, Archbishop John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury, Catfishing, Church of England, Croydon, Dinal De Alwis, Dr Kevin Ralley, John Smyth, Justin Welby, Makin Review, Old Palace, Rt Rev Dr Rosemarie Mallett, St Mary's Church, Suicide, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
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Help the Garwood Foundation with its Space To Thrive appeal
Inside Croydon is proud to have nominated the Garwood Foundation for its 2024 charity appeal, encouraging our readers to donate, support and engage with the South Croydon-based charity’s vitally important work at a crucial time in its history. Founded in … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe East, Addiscombe West, Charity, Community associations, Education, Garwood Foundation, Schools, South Croydon
Tagged Addiscombe, Bramley Hill, Croydon, Dr Ross White, Garwood Foundation, Inside Croydon, Jean Garwood, Jean Garwood House, Melville Avenue, Rutherford School, South Croydon
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11/11: We will remember them
Edward Thomas was south London’s war poet. Born in Lambeth, he went to Battersea Grammar School, and became a newspaper literary critic after university. He only began writing his own poetry in 1914, and he signed up for the army … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Education, History
Tagged Armistice Day, Croydon, Edward Thomas, Remembrance Day
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Council in secret deal to lease medical centre site as a car park
EXCLUSIVE: Coulsdon residents have been waiting a decade for a promised medical facility in the town centre. In March, the council announced it had sold the site to the NHS. In the summer, local MP Chris Philp promised work on … Continue reading
Posted in Business, CALAT, Community associations, Coulsdon, Coulsdon Town, Croydon Council, Croydon NHS Trust, East Coulsdon Residents' Association, Health, Ian Parker, Matthew Kershaw, Old Coulsdon, Parking
Tagged Conservative, Coulsdon, Coulsdon CALAT, Coulsdon Medical Centre, Coulsdon Town, Croydon, Croydon NHS Trust, Ian Parker, Kia Coulsdon, Matthew Kershaw, Mayor Jason Perry, Tory
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College given ‘Good’ rating after Ofsted inspectors’ return visit
A year and a half after being rated as “Inadequate” following an Ofsted inspection, when the leadership was warned “about the risks associated with radicalisation and extremism” on its campus, Croydon College, together with Coulsdon Sixth Form College, has had … Continue reading
Children’s theatre receives £50,000 grant for new play garden
Wimbledon, the spiritual home of British tennis, strawberries and cream, Pimm’s and Henman Hill, has donated £50,000 to the nearby Polka children’s theatre to instal special sensory play equipment in their garden. The Wimbledon Foundation Garden at the theatre has … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Education, Merton, Outside Croydon, Schools, Theatre, Uncategorized
Tagged London, Polka Theatre, Wimbledon, Wimbledon tennis
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Stolen car and missing notebooks could delay Raye’s album
Croydon’s chart-topping singer Raye has issued a public appeal – after her car was stolen together with notebooks containing precious lyrics for her next album. Earlier this year, Raye – Rachel Keen when she was when a child at Coulsdon … Continue reading
Posted in Art, BRIT School, Music, Raye, Woodcote High
Tagged Coulsdon, Croydon, Raye, The BRITS
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Three large private schools will cut fees to reduce sting of VAT
Education correspondent GENE BRODIE on how one of Croydon’s biggest eceonomic sectors is adjusting to the horrors of having to charge tax At least three of Croydon’s largest private schools plan to reduce their fees from next January, to take … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Halls, Croydon High, Education, Old Palace, Schools, Whitgift School
Tagged Andrew Halls, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Croydon, Croydon High School, Labour, Old Palace of John Whitgift School, Rachel Reeves, Royal Russell School, The Budget, VAT, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
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Falling rolls sees class reductions at Thornton Heath primaries
Falling birth rates and reducing numbers of children applying for places at the borough’s primaries have forced Croydon Council into a rethink over the size of some of the borough’s schools. Two primary schools in Thornton Heath, Beulah Junior and … Continue reading
Charity in appeal for volunteers to help as Schoolreaders
Schoolreaders, a national charity dedicated to improving children’s literacy, is seeking volunteers to provide vital reading support to primary school children. One-quarter of children are leaving primary school each year unable to read to the expected standard. This means they … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Education, Schools
Tagged charity, primary schools, Schoolreaders, schools
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Ofsted comes calling: will Kerswell’s council pass the tests?
Staff at Fisher’s Folly have been warned to be on their best behaviour, as septuagenarian corporate director Debbie Jones makes her last hurrah, and evermore ridiculous CEO Katherine Kerswell declares: ‘Let them eat cake!’ The last-but-one time there was a … Continue reading
Posted in Children's Services, Croydon Council, Debbie Jones, Education, Jo Negrini, Katherine Kerswell, Schools
Tagged Children, Croydon, Croydon Council, CYPE, Debbie Jones, Fisher's Folly, Jo Negrini, Katherine Kerswell, London Borough of Croydon, Ofsted, Ofsted inspection, Young People and Education
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Paralympian Bayley gives his best shots at Legacy Youth Zone
Strictly Come Dancing performer and professional ping-pongist Will Bayley paid a surprise visit to Croydon’s Legacy Youth Zone in Whitehorse Road this week. It was Bayley’s first public appearance since he won a table tennis silver medal at the Paris … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Charity, Education, Selhurst, Wates
Tagged Legacy Youth Zone, Paralympic Games, Paris Paralympics, Selhurst, table tennis, The BRIT School, Wates Group, Will Bayley
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State schools’ rugby tournament to kick off at John Fisher
A two-day festival of rugby, featuring the top state school teams from across England, is being staged at John Fisher School’s playing fields at Plough Lane this weekend. The event has been “years in the making”, according to Tom Street, … Continue reading
Boris Johnson’s former aide given Whitgift Foundation top job
It was an intervention 12 years ago by the then Mayor of London that got Croydon’s biggest landowners into a disastrous £1.4bn gamble with Westfield. Now they are turning to BoJo’s ‘revered’ aide to get them out of the mess. … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Charity, Old Palace, Property, Roisha Hughes, Schools, Trinity School, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
Tagged Christopher Houlding, Croydon, Hammersfield, Martin Corney, Old Palace, Old Palace of John Whitgift School, Old Palace School, Roisha Hughes, Trinity School, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
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Council’s ‘totally unacceptable’ BHM effort is off to late start
Croydon’s Tory-controlled council’s miserable efforts to reflect and celebrate Black History Month have been branded “totally unacceptable” and “woeful”, with no publicity or materials distributed to what is left of the borough’s public libraries. The council’s propaganda bunker swung into … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Black History Month, Community associations, Croydon BME Forum, Croydon Council, Education, History, Libraries, Mayor Jason Perry
Tagged BHM, Black History Month, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon BME Forum, Croydon Council, Katherine Kerswell, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, South Norwood, South Norwood Library, Tory
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Victorian-era dinosaurs win £5m from Heritage Lottery Fund
Crystal Palace Park’s regeneration plan has been handed a £5million grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to ensure that the historic dinosaurs and other Victorian features in the park don’t become… well, history. Planning approval for £17.75million of regeneration … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Croydon parks, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Park, Crystal Palace Park Trust, Education, Environment, Friends of Crystal Palace Park, History, Victoria Pinnington
Tagged Bromley Council, Crystal Palace, Crystal Palace Park, Crystal Palace Park Trust, Friends of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs, National Lottery, National Lottery Heritage Fund, Victoria Pinnington
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Sacked ‘superstar’ headteacher refuses to resign MOPAC post
Questions have been raised with senior figures at City Hall over whether the “superstar” headteacher of a secondary school in Coulsdon who was dismissed for gross misconduct can continue in an influential role with MOPAC – the Mayor of London’s … Continue reading
Coulsdon school’s ‘superstar head’ loses unfair dismissal case
An unfair dismissal case brought against Woodcote High School by a “superstar head teacher”, which claimed he was victim of race discrimination, has been dismissed. The case was brought by Paul Mundy-Castle, a former Great Britain basketball international and London’s … Continue reading
Posted in Coulsdon, Education, Schools, Woodcote High
Tagged Coulsdon, Croydon, Paul Mundy-Castle, South London Employment Tribunal, Woodcote High School
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No money, no plan, no honesty: Mayor still closing 4 libraries
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Residents, library campaigners and members of the council’s scrutiny committee have all seen through the council’s dodgy recommendations for reducing the borough’s library service. And with the council running at £42m over-budget for this year, further closures … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Community associations, Croydon Council, Education, Kristian Aspinall, Libraries, Mayor Jason Perry, Old Coulsdon, Property, Sanderstead, Shirley North, Shirley South
Tagged Alasdair Stewart, Bradmore Green Library, Broad Green Library, Conservative, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, Kristian Aspinall, Labour, Libraries, Libraries consultation, Mayor Jason Perry, Public libraries, Rowenna Davis, Sanderstead Library, Shirley Library, Stephanie Wilson, Tory
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Suited and booted: Norbury Alli’s donations and No10 access
WALTER CRONXITE, political editor, profiles the former Stanley Tech pupil who has risen to become a millionaire media mogul and the Labour Party’s biggest donor The clue is in his Lordship’s title. But the “Free Gear Keir” cronyism storm was … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Harris Academy South Norwood, Norbury, Schools, Steve Reed MP, Streatham and Croydon North
Tagged Angela Rayner, Bob Geldof, Charlie Parsons, Croydon, Croydon North, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Keir Starmer, Lord Alli, Lord Waheed Alli, Norbury, Norwood Grove, Planet 24, Rachel Reeves, Siobhain McDonagh MP, South Norwood, Stanley Tech, Steve Reed OBE, Streatham and Croydon North, Sue Gray, Tony Bliar, Waheed Alli
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