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How Croydon’s ‘Culture Club’ was turned into a business clique

Posted on March 22, 2024 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: As the borough’s £1.5m year of culture is staggering to its conclusion, we reveal how the owners of a Surrey Street pub were handed £28,000 for… nothing. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES As Croydon’s year as London’s Borough … Continue reading →

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Croydon 2023: the Penn Report, dog attacks and those giraffes

Posted on December 29, 2023 by insidecroydon

THE YEAR IN REVIEW Part 2 – May to August If there was one good thing to come out of Croydon Council this year, then it must have been the Penn Report. Katherine Kerswell, the council’s chief executive, had held … Continue reading →

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The cost of Croydon’s Music Heritage Trail: £750 per download!

Posted on December 15, 2023 by insidecroydon

BOROUGH OF VULTURES: Fewer than 500 people have bothered to use the special app intended to guide them around the town centre’s historic music locations. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES “Have we already fucked it up?” According to official meeting minutes … Continue reading →

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Taking Liberty with the arts in a way that celebrates us all

Posted on September 8, 2023 by insidecroydon

KEN TOWL takes hope, and much joy, from last week’s Liberty Festival, where deaf, disabled and neurodivergent artists injected some much-needed culture into the borough. Photos by PAUL FULLER The Liberty Festival, which landed in Croydon last weekend, represented the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Ashcroft Theatre, Borough of Culture 2023, Comedy, Dance, Fairfield Halls, Ken Towl, Music, Poetry | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Jason Perry’s Croydon: a place with all the wrong priorities

Posted on September 1, 2023 by insidecroydon

Inside Croydon’s loyal reader was strolling along the High Street in the town centre this morning and captured this wonderful scene Our reader dropped us a note in which they say, “Think this illustrates nicely Jason Perry’s Croydon. “Two workers, … Continue reading →

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Perry is director of company handed £50,000 culture grant

Posted on August 30, 2023 by insidecroydon

EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES One of the biggest single grants handed out by Croydon Council for Borough of Culture projects has gone to a company where Mayor Jason Perry is a director. While several long-established, recognised community arts groups had … Continue reading →

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