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Mayor Perry spends £140,000 on gym equipment for Monks Hill
Politics, they say, is all about priorities. So while Croydon Mayor Jason Perry takes away the £13,000 per year grant to the Selsdon Centre for the Retired and increases their rent, after hiking everyone’s Council Tax by 15%, up the … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Mayor Jason Perry, Quest Academy, Schools, Selsdon and Addington Village, Selsdon Vale and Forestdale
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Kirsty MacColl, Mayor Jason Perry, Monks Hill, Monks Hill Comprehensive, Monks Hill Sports Centre, Quest Academy, Selsdon, Selsdon High School, There's a Guy Works Down The Chip Shop Swears He's Elvish, Wilfried Zaha
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£250 per day fees paid to lead on borough’s Heritage Trail
CROYDON IN CRISIS: One arts company in the borough appears to have won the Lottery for its role in the less-than-inspiring flagship project for the Borough of Culture. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES The project lead working on the Music Heritage … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Borough of Culture 2023, Business, Croydon Council, Education, Museum of Croydon, Music, Queens Gardens
Tagged Borough of Culture, Croydon, Croydon Council, Heritage Music Trail, Jacqueline du Pre, Jamie Reid, Kirsty MacColl, London Borough of Croydon, National Lottery, National Lottery Heritage Fund, Queens Gardens, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Stormzy
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It’s hard to find signs of the borough’s musical heritage trail
So just what do we get for the £220,000 of Lottery cash splurged on Croydon’s Music Heritage Trail? We sent LOUISA GAUTREY along to road-test the trail and its accompanying app As a teenager who listens to a wide range … Continue reading
