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How businesses profited at expense of the Borough of Culture
BOROUGH OF VULTURES: £1.3m of arts funding provided by the Mayor of London was misused by Croydon’s Tory council to boost local businesses, but delivered a year-long flop, judging by official audience figures. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Croydon’s year as … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Borough of Culture 2023, Business, CODA, Croydon BID, Croydon Council, Croydonites Festival, Dance, Fairfield Halls, Kristian Aspinall, London Mozart Players, Mayor Jason Perry, Music, Stanley Halls, Theatre
Tagged Andy Stranack, Borough of Culture, Borough of Vultures, CODA, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon BID, Croydon Clocktower, Croydon Council, Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association, David Lean Cinema, Develop Croydon, Fairfield Halls, Kristian Aspinall, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Tory, White Label
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How Croydon’s ‘Culture Club’ was turned into a business clique
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
Posted in Art, Borough of Culture 2023, Business, Croydon BID, Croydon Council, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, Pubs, Restaurants, Surrey Street
Tagged Apsara Arts, Borough of Culture, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon BID, Croydon Council, Develop Croydon, Fern, giraffes, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Mr Fox, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Carnival, Tory, White Label
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£1.5m being spent on our Borough of not-very-much Culture
We are now well into the third month of Croydon’s year as the Borough of Culture. Waddyamean, you haven’t seen any publicity or signs of anything special being staged? Neither have we, so we sent KEN TOWL off to see … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Borough of Culture 2023, Business, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Ken Towl, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, Museum of Croydon, Music, Sadiq Khan, Theatre
Tagged Borough of Culture, Croydon, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Four Communications, Grey Label, Heritage Music Trail, Jo Gumb, Katharine Glass, Ken Towl, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, Mayor Sadiq Khan, Oliver Lewis, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Stanley Halls, Stormzy, White Label
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Year of Culture set to begin with an Oratorio of Hopelessness
CROYDON IN CRISIS: If, like us, you have been scouring the listings pages to find what’s planned for Croydon’s year as London’s Borough of Culture, you’re likely to be disappointed. But some of the PR deals surrounding the event have … Continue reading
Posted in Andrew Stranack, Art, Borough of Culture 2023, Community associations, Croydon BID, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Jo Negrini, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor of London, Music, Oliver Lewis, Sadiq Khan, Theatre, Tony Newman
Tagged Andy Stranack, Borough of Culture, Boxpark, Caterina Loriggio, Conservative, Croydon, Desmond Dekker, Fairfield Halls, Four Communications, Jo Negrini, Justine Simons, Kristian Aspinall, Labour, London, Mayor Jason Perry, Mayor Sadiq Khan, Oliver Lewis, Tony Newman, Tory, White Label
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Red faces after doomed supermarket is shortlisted for award
Red faces at Grey Label, the marketing agency that organises the “Croydon Business Excellence Awards”, where they have managed to shortlist as “Best Employer” a business that is about to make its 70 workers redundant. As exclusively revealed by Inside … Continue reading
Massive 247-flat scheme proposed for Purley Station site
Developers with ties to the Croydon Establishment move in on suburban town centre with a proposal for five blocks of flats that would cover the pitch at Wembley Stadium three times over Purley town centre, already the site of dozens … Continue reading
Posted in Paul Scott, Planning, Property, Purley
Tagged Croydon Business Awards, Purley, Purley Station, Regent Land and Developments, White Label
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Croydon uses four agencies to help on trip to South of France
KEN LEE, our foreign travel on someone else’s budget correspondent, reports on the proliferation of consultants who are getting their expense accounts paid for out of Croydon Council Tax at MIPIM’s junket next week Senior officials from Croydon Council and … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Business, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Housing, Jo Negrini, Planning, Property, RIF, Tony Newman
Tagged 31Ten, 3Fox International, Croydon, Croydon Council, Develop Croydon, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, MIPIM, Richard Simpson, Tony Newman, White Label
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Grey Label take Croydon to MIPIM and organise a ‘racket’
Just look what is being done in the name of Croydon Council this week in the sunny South of France at the MIPIM “booze and hookers’ fest” conference in Cannes. Croydon, according to the latest bit of marketing bullshit from … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Tony Newman
Tagged Croydon Council, Grey Label, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, MIPIM, Tony Newman, White Label
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International marketing firm handed contract for Platform
Grey Label, the Croydon-based marketing firm which has, inexplicably, somehow got a stranglehold on lucrative council and developers’ promotion contracts in and around the borough, has lost its deal for one of the town centre’s key developments. The Croydon firm … Continue reading
White Label’s “no Cannes do” with conference publicity
Whoops. Looks like another clanger dropped by White Label, the PR agency that is ubiquitous in Croydon Council business.
Posted in Business, Cane Hill, Cherry Orchard Gardens, Croydon Council, Housing, Jon Rouse, Planning, Property, URV
Tagged Cannes, Council Tax, Croydon, Croydon Council, London, London Borough of Croydon, MIPIM, White Label
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PR agents sign up Tesco as cut-price festival sponsors
Tesco, the unwitting purveyors of horse meat with a long-time reputation for doing things on the cheap, and now the proud owners of an “express” store in a South Croydon landmark pub despite local opposition have “generously” agreed to sponsor … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Community associations, Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, Croydon South, Environment, Fairfield, Parking, Property, Pubs, Restaurants, South Croydon, Waddon, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Brighton Road, Croydon, London, London Borough of Croydon, South Croydon, Tesco, White Label, Whitgift Foundation
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South End residents and businesses look to oust Tesco
The first meeting of a new residents group for people living and working in and around the South End area of South Croydon made a strong case against allowing Tesco to open another Express store, using the Whitgift Foundation-owned Swan … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Business, Church and religions, Croydon Council, Fairfield, Housing, Local media, Parking, Planning, Property, Pubs, Restaurants, South Croydon, Vidhi Mohan, Waddon, Waste incinerator, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Council, Grant Shapps, London, London Borough of Croydon, South Croydon, White Label, Whitgift Foundation
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