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Summer special offer: listen to our latest Croydon Insider FREE
Our special summer edition of the Croydon Insider podcast is available now – and completely free of charge. With a special line-up of guests – all Inside Croydon readers or contributors – in this episode we discuss a vast range … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Insider, Gabriel MacArthur, Gardening, Inside Croydon, Nadia Azizuddin
Tagged Banstead, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon Insider, David Morgan, Gabriel MacArthur, Hammersfield, Inside Croydon, London Borough of Croydon, Lorna Maye, Mayfield Lavender Farm, Nadia Azizuddin, The Civilised Savage, The Croydon Insider, Under The Flyover, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Charities team up with a festival of football for primary pupils
Palace for Life, Crystal Palace FC’s charity arm, is taking part in a community summer school being staged in South Croydon next week, with club coaches staging a football festival as the grand finale for more than 150 children from … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Charity, Crystal Palace FC, Education, Palace for Life Foundation, Roisha Hughes, Schools, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
Tagged Crystal Palace FC, Football, Haling Park, Japanese, Palace for Life Foundation, Science, South Croydon, Sport, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
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Inspectors rate Whitgift care home as ‘Requires improvement’
Whitgift House, the care home on Brighton Road in South Croydon run by the Whitgift Foundation, has been rated as “Requires improvement” following its most recent inspection by the Care Quality Commission. The CQC found “breaches of legal regulations” and … Continue reading
End-of-year report: Whitgift Head finds room for improvement
Visiting our al fresco studio Under The Flyover is Toby Seth, the headmaster of Whitgift School. Seth has just completed his first year in charge at the large independent school in South Croydon, a year in which their under-15s won … Continue reading
Charity lost £2m last year over closure of Old Palace School
The Whitgift Foundation’s ‘Impact Report’ for last year shows its two boys’ fee-paying schools among the country’s top 10% of independents, as the costs of closing its girls’ school will continue until 2028. By STEVEN DOWNES The closure of Old … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, CPO, Education, Fiona Fletcher Smith, Old Palace, Roisha Hughes, Schools, Serenity special school, Trinity School, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
Tagged Archbishop John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury, Croydon, Fiona Fletcher-Smith, Hammersfield, Knight Frank, Old Palace of John Whitgift School, Old Palace School, Old Town, Roisha Hughes, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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We’re glad all over! The Croydon Insider looks back on Leipzig
The Croydon Insider returns to its more eclectic look at recent local news, with a visit from the website’s football correspondent to share his experience of travelling to Leipzig for the European Conference League final. Plus, the panel discusses how … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 council elections, Andrew Sinclair, Annabel Smith, Croydon Council, Croydon Insider, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Education, Inside Croydon, Ken Towl, Old Palace, Schools, SEND, Tom Bowell, Trinity School, Under The Flyover, Whitgift School
Tagged Andrew Sinclair, Annabel Smith, Croydon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Crystal Palace FC, Ken Towl, Leipzig, Oliver Glasner, SEND, Special Educational Needs and Disabilities, Steve Parish, The Croydon Insider, Trinity School, Under The Flyover, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School, Yusuf Osman
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Whitgift Foundation makes 41 ‘life-changing’ bursary awards
£200,000 That’s the value, at least, to the family of one boy of a bursary to attend Whitgift or Trinity independent schools in Croydon through from Year 7 this September all the way to the Upper Sixth. It’s a life-changing … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Education, Old Palace, Roisha Hughes, Schools, Trinity School, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
Tagged Croydon, Fiona Fletcher-Smith, Old Palace School, Old Palace School of John Whitgift, Palace for Life Foundation, Paul Cleal, Roisha Hughes, Shirley Park, South Croydon, Trinity, Trinity School, Westfield, Whiftgift School, Whitgift, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Perry’s goons abandon threats against George Street homeless
Council security contractors may have failed to follow the law over their ‘thuggery’ and ‘bullying’ of what they called an ‘encampment’ in the town centre. By STEVEN DOWNES and KEN TOWL Threats of enforcement action against what the council described … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Community associations, Croydon BID, Croydon Council, Fairfield, Mayor Jason Perry, North End Quarter, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Centrale, Community Patrol, Community Protection Notice, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon BID, Croydon Council, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Parkguard, Tory, Whitgift Almshouses, Whitgift Foundation
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Council heavies move in on vulnerable people on George Street
Under-trained security officials, paid for with public money, are doing the bidding of Mayor’s favoured business group in ‘authoritarian thuggery and bullying’. By STEVEN DOWNES Croydon Council has been accused of being tactless, uncaring and of persecuting homeless people, after … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, Centrale, Community associations, Croydon BID, North End Quarter, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Centrale, Community Patrol, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon BID, Croydon Council, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Parkguard, Tory, Whitgift Almshouses, Whitgift Foundation
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Perry’s cut-price carers support provider is failing to deliver
This is what “success” looks like under Jason Perry, Croydon’s failed Mayor. It is now little more than a year since the Tory Mayor decided to end years of successful collaboration and hard work by dedicated local charities and volunteers … Continue reading
Posted in Adult Social Care, Business, Carers First, Charity, Croydon Council, Mayor Jason Perry, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Carers First, Carers Support Centre, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Carers Support Centre, Croydon Council, George Street, London Borough of Croydon, Mayor Jason Perry, Tory, Whitgift Foundation
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£40m Trinity School expansion given planning green light
The council’s planning committee has given a green light to a £40million development to expand Trinity School in Shirley Park to ready the independent boys’ school to go fully co-educational by 2031. The scheme is the first major re-build since … Continue reading
Posted in Alasdair Kennedy, Business, Charity, Education, Jason Cummings, Old Palace, Planning, Schools, Shirley South, Trinity School, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Alasdair Kennedy, Clive Fraser, Croydon, Jason Cummings, Mark Johnson, Old Palace of John Whitgift School, Old Palace School, Roisha Hughes, Shirley, Shirley Park, Shirley South, Trinity School, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
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Town’s oldest building opens its doors for local history month
Croydon’s oldest building is opening its gates to the public for expert guided tours, as part of local history month in May. Thousands walk past the Whitgift Almshouses in Croydon town centre every day, but few give it a second … Continue reading
Whitgift crowned national schools rugby champions once again
Whitgift School has once again won the national schools’ rugby cup. The under-15s squad triumphed 32-26 last week in a hard-fought final at Ealing against defending champions Northampton School for Boys in the Continental Tyres Schools Cup.
Trinity pupil wins best child actor in WhatsOnStage awards
A first-year pupil at Trinity School in Shirley has been named best child actor of the year in the WhatsOnStage Awards for his performances at the National Theatre’s Land of the Living. Anton Vehring is 11 years old. He made … Continue reading
Westfield consult public for 6th time and deliver more delays
Paris-based multi-bilion developers URW today begin another public consultation over the future of the town centre – Consultation No6 – which means that their latest planning application, already two years late, won’t see the light of day until long after … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Business, Centrale, CPO, Croydon Council, Housing, Mayor Jason Perry, North End Quarter, Planning, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre
Tagged Allders, Allders Car Park, Allies and Morrison, Centrale, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hammersfield, London, Mayor Jason Perry, North End Quarter, The Croydon Project, Unibail Rodamco Westfield, URW, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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Britain’s biggest children’s book festival is coming to Croydon
Croydon youngsters are to be offered a free day of “bookish fun” at the Ashcroft Theatre in the summer as part of the annual London Schools Literature Festival. The Whitgift Foundation is sponsoring the day’s activities, which will be organised … Continue reading
Trinity submits planning application for £40m co-ed conversion
Less than a year after announcing the £30,000 a year fee-paying school would start offering places to girls, plans have gone in for works that will see its expansion to 1,400 pupils. By STEVEN DOWNES Plans for a £40million extension … Continue reading
Posted in Alasdair Kennedy, Business, Charity, Education, Old Palace, Planning, Schools, Trinity School, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
Tagged Alasdair Kennedy, Croydon, Old Palace of John Whitgift School, Old Palace School, Shirley, Shirley Park, Trinity School, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School
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Charity formed last October buys two Old Palace buildings
The Rise School of Excellence has paid £750,000 for two buildings on the site of the former girls’ fee-paying school, as Croydon’s biggest landowners, the Whitgift Foundation, continue to dispose of their properties. By GENE BRODIE, education correspondent The piecemeal … Continue reading
Posted in "Hammersfield", Business, CPO, Education, Old Palace, Roisha Hughes, Schools, Serenity special school, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
Tagged Archbishop John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury, Croydon, Hammersfield, Knight Frank, Old Palace of John Whitgift School, Old Palace School, Old Town, Rise School of Excellence, Roisha Hughes, Serenity Special School, Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation
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