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Tag Archives: CCC
Mayor goes ahead with meeting for anti-immigrant group
Mayor Jason Perry is ignoring appeals from minority groups and a refugee support organisation and is going ahead with plans to attend a meeting tonight organised by a group which includes racists and Islamophobes. The Croydon Communities [sic] Consortium has … Continue reading
School governor using social media to spread race hate
What sort of school could possibly want to have an unapologetic racist on its governing body? GENE BRODIE, our education correspondent, reports that some on the far-right are trying to ‘normalise’ their conduct by infiltrating community organisations Earlier this week, … Continue reading
Police Borough Commander: ‘I won’t attend a CCC meeting’
Chief Superintendent Jeff Boothe, the first black officer appointed by the Metropolitan Police to be Croydon’s Borough Commander, has confirmed that neither he nor any other officers will be attending meetings organised by the controversial Croydon Community Consortium. Boothe is … Continue reading
Posted in Andy Tarrant, Hamida Ali, Jeff Boothe, Mark Watson, Policing
Tagged CCC, Conservative, Croydon Community Consortium, Elizabeth Ash, Hamida Ali, Jeff Boothe, Labour, Peter Morgan, Tory, UKIP
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Council-funded group promotes Tory campaign against 20mph
A “community” group that claims to be “apolitical” and which has received thousands of pounds of grant funding from the council, has promoted the campaign making the case against the council’s policy of introducing 20mph zones across the borough. It … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Hamida Ali, Mark Watson, Nathan Elvery, South Croydon Community Association, Tony Newman
Tagged 20mph zones, CCC, Conservative, Croydon Communities Consortium, Croydon Council, Elizabeth Ash, Hamida Ali, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mark Watson, Nathan Elvery, Peter Morgan, Tony Newman, Tory, UKIP
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UKIP supporters to face demands for legal costs from council
Croydon Council has begun legal proceedings against a UKIP-dominated group which has refused to return thousands of pounds in an unspent grant. Council officials have decided to pursue the group’s committee members for the costs incurred for recovering that money. … Continue reading
Council CEO: ‘Time for debate is over. Give us our cash back’
The borough’s elected councillors were advised not to attend the annual meeting of the Croydon Communities [sic] Consortium last month because of a possible legal dispute for the recovery of thousands of pounds of public money. The CCC has been … Continue reading
‘Agitators’ to ask CCC: ‘Where’s the council money gone?’
The Croydon Communities Consortium holds its annual meeting on Thursday evening, just eight months since the council-funded body staged its previous AGM. It is doing so after refusing to make audited accounts available ahead of the event, and with its … Continue reading
Ash to ashes: unions boycott UKIP-dominated talking shop
Croydon’s trades unionists are being asked to boycott all future meetings of the “Croham Clux Clan” – what presents itself as a community talking shop sometimes also known as the Croydon Communities [sic] Consortium, or CCC. This follows an order … Continue reading
Posted in Andy Tarrant, Community associations, Croydon Council, Mark Watson, Peter Staveley, Policing
Tagged CCC, Croydon Council, Elizabeth Ash, Hyacinth Bucket, UKIP
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Borough police chief tells officers not to attend CCC events
Croydon’s police have been instructed not to attend further meetings of the controversial Croydon Communities [sic] Consortium. The order comes from the Borough Commander, Andy Tarrant, and has occurred in the midst of CCC being involved with a series of … Continue reading
UKIP candidate given job by council-backed ‘talking shop’
The Croydon Communities [sic] Consortium, which received a £5,000 grant from the then Tory-run Croydon Council to stage “apolitical” meetings, has appointed the leader of a local branch of UKIP as its new deputy chairman. This appointment follows the previous … Continue reading
‘I was singled out and heckled. I was the only black man there’
When GLEN HART attended a meeting of what is supposed to be a council-funded community group, he was abused for daring to ask questions. But he was even more shocked when he saw that he was the only black man … Continue reading
Council-funded ‘community group’ gets closer to the council
More questions have arisen about the independence from Croydon Council of the council-funded “Croydon Communities Consortium”, after Inside Croydon had sight of an email to the CCC’s chairwoman, Elizabeth Ash, from David Freeman. Freeman works in the office of Nathan … Continue reading
Posted in Anthony Brooks, Community associations, Crime, Croydon Council, CVA, Fly tipping, Libraries, Refuse collection
Tagged Anthony Brooks, Bernard Weatherill House, CCC, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Communities Consortium, Croydon Council, Croydon North, Croydon South, Elizabeth Ash, Fisher's Folly, London Borough of Croydon, Moriarty, Save Croydon Libraries, Tory
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