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Croydon youth workers’ legacy mission to tackle Quadrathlon
A group of men from a Croydon-based youth organisation will be setting off at dawn tomorrow on one of the country’s toughest endurance challenges – covering almost 60 miles by swimming across a Scottish loch, cycling through the mountains of … Continue reading
Norbury charity’s boxing clever with £80,000 from Wates trust
Be Inspired, a Croydon-based group dedicated to tackling youth crime and supporting young people, has received an £80,000 grant from the Wates Family Enterprise Trust. The grant will be used to help develop Be Inspired’s “Generation Change” programme, which delivers … Continue reading
Posted in Be Inspired, Boxing, Business, Charity, Crime, Norbury, Wates Group
Tagged Be Inspired, Boxing, Norbury, Norbury Park, Wates, Wates Family Enterprise Trust, Wates Group
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When people talk, things happen and they get things done
CROYDON COMMENTARY: Businessman TIM WATES believes that even a small shift in engagement with each other can make a big difference to the borough’s future Across Croydon, many community groups, volunteers and businesses are rolling up their sleeves to make … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Charity, Community associations, Croydon Commitment, Crystal Palace FC, Education, Knife crime, Lives Not Knives, Serious About Youth, Tim Wates, Wates Group
Tagged Croydon, Croydon College, Croydon Voluntary Action, Crystal Palace FC, Fairfield Halls, Lives Not Knives, Palace for Life Foundation, Serious About Youth, Tim Wates, Wates, Wates Group
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70% success rate as Construkt helps to build a better future
The Construkt programme, now celebrating its 10th year, has a 70% success rate in launching participants into construction-related careers and further training. The people behind it says that in its first decade, it has diverted more than 350 young people … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Charity, Serious About Youth
Tagged Construkt, Louis, Paul Matthews, Rommell Wallace, Serious About Youth, Wates
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Croydon youngster who found route from court to construction
One of the country’s leading development and building companies is working with Croydon College, local charities and not-for-profits to offer apprenticeships and work experience opportunities that are life-changing The life of Louis Bienaime is an example of how to start … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Charity, Community associations, Croydon College, East Croydon, Education, Wates
Tagged East Croydon, Lives Not Knives, Serious About Youth, Wates
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Social initiative has sports club punching above their Wates
A community sports group based in Norbury Park is having its boxing gym fitted out by property maintenance firm Wates as a “social value initiative”. Gloves Not Gunz is a boxing club which aims to prevent and divert young people … Continue reading
Youth charities to benefit as Wates finish off 2 Ruskin Square
The Government Property Agency has appointed Wates to carry out the fit-out of 2 Ruskin Square at East Croydon, with the building firm undertaking to work with local youth and anti-crime groups while they are working on the project. Ruskin … Continue reading
Posted in Business, East Croydon, Property, Ruskin Square
Tagged 2 Ruskin Square, Apollo House, East Croydon, Government Property Agency, GPA, HMRC, Home Office, Lunar House, Ruskin Square, Wates
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No tears shed by council or tenants as Axis makes its exit
Without any fanfare, and conspicuously no statement of great achievements by Croydon’s Mayor, the borough’s £21m per year repairs contractor that was mired at the centre of the Regina Road scandal has been quietly replaced It was perhaps a surprise … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Housing, K&T Heating, Mears, Wates
Tagged Alison Butler, Axis, Croydon Council, K&T Heating, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Mears, Regina Road, Robert Ward, South Norwood, Wates
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