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Category Archives: Sara Bashford
Wandsworth sets up private company to run Croydon libraries
Not for the first time, developments over the privatisation of Croydon’s public library service have been reported from Wandsworth Town Hall long before our public servants in Taberner House have got around to imparting any news to the council tax-payers … Continue reading
David Lean Cinema Campaign announces latest free season
Croydon volunteers are showing council-inspired initiatives the right way of doing things on the big screen as well as with summer fairs. Last year, Croydon Council hi-jacked the name of the David Lean Cinema and transferred its use from an … Continue reading
Sutton shows its neighbours the power of volunteering
With Croydon Council failing to back any local summer fairs or concerts, ANDREW PELLING joined thousands of other residents from the borough at yesterday’s environmental fair in Carshalton Croydon used to be blessed with large community events in its parks, … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Charity, Church and religions, Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, Education, Environment, Gardening, Health, Jon Rouse, Music, Outside Croydon, Paul Burstow MP, Richard Ottaway MP, Sara Bashford, Selsdon & Ballards, St Helier Hospital, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP, Walks, Waste incinerator, Wildlife
Tagged Cancer Research UK, Croydon, Croydon Council, London, London Borough of Croydon, New Addington, Sutton
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Worrying signs of neglect in Croydon’s under-threat libraries
Croydon’s public libraries are under-staffed, under-stocked and being deliberately run-down ahead of privatisation. And few library users are even aware of what is going on. That’s the stark assessment of a professional library worker and campaigner following a visit to … Continue reading
Posted in Broad Green, Croydon Council, Education, Libraries, Sara Bashford, Thornton Heath
Tagged Broad Green, Croydon, Croydon Council, England, London, London Borough of Croydon, Thornton Heath, Tory
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Council plans to privatise libraries are rejected as “lazy”
The opposition group on Croydon Council has threatened to torpedo the on-going privatisation of the borough’s library service by refusing to commit to continue working with any outside organisations which may win the year-long bidding process to take on the … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Libraries, New Addington South, Sara Bashford, Timothy Godfrey
Tagged Croydon, New Addington, Wandsworth
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Local derby marks football’s return to Croydon Arena
The romance of football is very much on show in the lower levels of the English game that Croydon FC and AFC Croydon Athletic compete in. Rising from the ashes left by the involvement of the club’s owner, Mazhar Majeed, … Continue reading
What’s in a name? For Croydon Council, about £3m
According to PIGGY ASHCROFT, our council wants to make a crisis out of a drama, with designs on the Warehouse Theatre‘s name and hard-won reputation as well as its multi-million pound endowment from developers Croydon Council wants to go into … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Art, Cinema, Croydon Council, David Lean Cinema Campaign, East Croydon, Fairfield Halls, Jon Rouse, Property, Ruskin Square, Sara Bashford, Theatre, Warehouse Theatre
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, East Croydon station, Fairfield Halls, London Borough of Croydon, Ruskin Square, Warehouse, Warehouse Theatre
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American firm limps away from race to run Croydon’s libraries
LSSI, the American library services company which seemed set to get a juicy public money contract to run the libraries in Croydon and Wandsworth, has pulled out of the procurement process, Inside Croydon can reveal. LSSI is the second specialist … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Education, Libraries, Sara Bashford, Schools, Tim Pollard
Tagged Civica, Croydon, Croydon Council, Library, London Borough of Croydon, LSSI
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Warehouse supporter accuses council of “devious” plan
Croydon Council has been accused of having “a devious plan” to grab millions of pounds of development grants by closing the Warehouse Theatre. The accusation comes in a hard-hitting letter in The Stage newspaper from George Savvides, a Warehouse supporter … Continue reading
Civica pulls out of libraries bid because of risk to its “brand”
And then there were four. Civica, one of the five companies bidding for the Croydon and Wandsworth privatised libraries contract, has pulled out of the process citing “potential risk to the Civica brand of taking on a contract which is … Continue reading
Pollard agrees to extend consultation at Question Time event
The deputy leader of the Conservative group that controls Croydon Council has given an undertaking that the consultation period for the Upper Norwood Joint Library will be extended. Councillor Tim Pollard told residents at Tuesday evening’s council Question Time staged … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Clare Hilley, Croydon 8/8, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Leisure services, Libraries, Sara Bashford, Simon Hoar, Tim Pollard, Tony Harris, URV, Waddon, Waste incinerator
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, London, London Borough of Croydon, Question Time, Viridor, Waddon
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Croydon Council and the cuts: playing a numbers game
There is a myth perpetuated by Croydon Council, especially since May 2010 to justify its dogmatic policies of cutting staff, services and grants, be they weekly rubbish collections, timely road repairs, street lights, the summer music festival and Mela, David … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Business, Croydon 8/8, Croydon Council, David Lean Cinema Campaign, Fairfield Halls, Jon Rouse, Libraries, Nathan Elvery, Sara Bashford, Theatre, URV, Warehouse Theatre
Tagged Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, David Lean Cinema, Fairfield Halls, London Borough of Croydon, Taberner House, Warehouse Theatre
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Council cock-up stops comments on library consultation
Local library campaigners are demanding that Croydon Council explains yet another cock-up with its website, one which has undermined the already shoddily organised consultation on the future of Upper Norwood Joint Library. Croydon Council’s website was offline yesterday, “for maintenance”, … Continue reading
Dear Mr Edwards. If there’s anything you want to know, just ask
Inside Croydon thoroughly approves of and admires the online Freedom of Information tool, WhatDoTheyKnow.com, and we would encourage anyone to make use of it if they have a serious question about some aspect of a public body that, for some … Continue reading
No favourites on Croydon’s short-list for library sell-off. Oh no
There’s absolutely no suggestion whatsoever that Croydon’s expensive process (£250,000) to privatise the borough’s libraries is in some way offering a commercial advantage by favouring potential contractors who already have existing relationships with Croydon. Oh no, not at all. Inside … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Education, Jon Rouse, Libraries, Sara Bashford
Tagged Book Token, Conservative, Croydon, Essex, Library Systems & Services, London, LSSI, Wandsworth
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Boris fails to convince as he tries a bid for the sporting vote
There must be votes in sport. This morning, we received this press release, written and paid for by Council Tax-payers’ money at City Hall, issued on behalf of the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson. The Mayor of London Boris Johnson … Continue reading
Posted in 2012 Olympics, Activities, Boris Johnson, Commuting, Croydon Council, Ken Livingstone, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Rugby Union, Sara Bashford, Sport, Transport, West Croydon
Tagged 2015 Rugby World Cup, Boris, Boris Johnson, Bullingdon Club, England, London, London Assembly, Olympic Games
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