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Tag Archives: Heritage Lottery Fund
Chari-tree: re-green your neighbourhood with planting scheme
A charity sponsorship scheme launched last year, and publicised here on Inside Croydon, has directly led to 10 sponsorship requests, as more than 100 new trees have been planted around the borough in the past 10 months as a result … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon parks, Environment, Friends of Addiscombe Railway Park, Wildlife
Tagged Croydon Council, DEFRA, Heritage Lottery Fund, Portland Road, Purley, Richard Edwards, Shirley, South Norwood, Trees for Cities, Trees for Streets
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£78,000 Lottery grant puts Crystal Palace on sculpture trail
Arts group Invisible Palace has received a National Lottery Heritage Fund grant of £78,400 for their project exploring the Sculptures of Crystal Palace Park. The project is inspired by people’s responses to the remaining sculptures in the park – many … Continue reading
Croydon Airport wins on the Lottery for Zeppelin war project
The Historic Croydon Airport Trust has announced that it has received a National Lottery grant of £9,200 for its “Fighting for Air: The First World War Origins of Croydon Airport” project. With the money from the Heritage Lottery Fund, the … Continue reading
£700,000 Lottery grant to save the Great North Wood
The Great North Wood is south London’s secret ancient nature reserve and conservation group the London Wildlife Trust has just been awarded a £700,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to help restore and preserve what remains of the woodland. … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon parks, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Park, Environment, Selhurst, South Norwood, Wildlife
Tagged Croydon, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace Park, Great North Wood, Heritage Lottery Fund, London Wildlife Trust, Selhurst, South Norwood, Thornton Heath
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Living history exhibit on display at Stanley Halls: Dec 4
The Lives of Stanley Halls: Theatricals, Community and Entertainment, a touring exhibition, has its special introductory night at the South Norwood venue tomorrow night, December 4. The exhibition has been organised by the Stanley People’s Initiative and funded by the … Continue reading
Museums Association kicks out Croydon over Riesco sale
The president of the Museums Association, David Anderson, used his keynote speech at his organisation’s annual conference in Liverpool yesterday to announce that Croydon Council has been expelled from the MA and to warn that it will be barred from … Continue reading
Stanley Halls group celebrates “winning” the Lottery – twice
The Stanley People’s Initiative has received more than £18,000 in grants from the Heritage Lottery Fund to assist in establishing the long-term future of Stanley Halls in South Norwood. The Stanley People’s Initiative is a group of local people committed … Continue reading
Community group rejects Crystal Palace plan as “a fantasy”
The leadership of a respected local community group has dismissed the sketchy scheme by a Chinese businessman to build a vast new Crystal Palace over part of the park as “a fantasy”. They have also expressed the fear that while … Continue reading
Arts Council chief says Croydon “short-sighted” on Riesco
Alan Davey, the chief executive of the Arts Council of England, has today accused Croydon Council of being “short-sighted” over its pawn-shop sale of 24 items from the publicly owned Riesco Collection. Davey also promised to argue further with Tory-run … Continue reading
Priceless: Nailing the council’s lies over Riesco sale
HAMIDA ALI sets the record straight on the some of the deceits and outright untruths put forward by Croydon Council leader Mike Fisher and others to try to justify flogging off the borough’s heritage To quote Indiana Jones – it … Continue reading
Playwriting Festival lives on after Warehouse closure
The International Playwriting Festival which for the past 26 years has been staged at the Warehouse Theatre has found a new producer and a new home. Warehouse Phoenix, a company formed by members and friends of the Warehouse Theatre in … Continue reading
Croydon needs to keep a proper grasp of its history
Norbury resident SEAN CREIGHTON expresses concern over Croydon’s proposed cuts to the local studies centre, as first reported by Inside Croydon Croydon Council plans to disengage from cultural intervention as part of the next phase of its spending cuts. This … Continue reading
