Tag Archives: Whitgift Foundation

Carers Centre users claim to be excluded from CQC inspection

Posted on May 27, 2025 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: An internal council memo warns staff to be on their best behaviour in Fisher’s Folly while inspectors from the Care Quality Commission are on the premises this week, looking into the borough’s adult social care provision. EXCLUSIVE … Continue reading →

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Foundation sells Old Palace site to Serenity special schools

Posted on May 23, 2025 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Old Palace girls’ school closes in July, with the owners having sold the site, but for less than the £7m guide price. EXCLUSIVE By STEVEN DOWNES The Old Palace private girls’ school site will likely become home to … Continue reading →

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10% off Croydon book that Captain Sensible says is ‘stonking’

Posted on May 16, 2025 by insidecroydon

The paperback edition of Croydonopolis has just been released, and Inside Croydon subscribers can purchase it with a special discount code “A Journey to the Greatest City That Never Was” proclaims the cover of Will Noble’s Croydonopolis, which traces the … Continue reading →

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CQC inspectors are being ‘nobbled’ by the council, carers claim

Posted on May 9, 2025 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Carers accuse council and their new contractors of trying to distort the findings of a supposedly independent quality inspection. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Croydon’s carers, already reeling from the changes imposed on their services by Mayor Jason … Continue reading →

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Carers First move to axe managers’ jobs from Croydon centre

Posted on May 7, 2025 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Mayor Jason Perry promised a seamless transition and no job cuts – but now two senior managers at the Croydon Carers’ Support Centre have been told they are to be made redundant. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Carers … Continue reading →

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Trinity boys’ school confirms that it will go co-ed from 2027

Posted on April 28, 2025 by insidecroydon

EXCLUSIVE: Almost two years since the Whitgift Foundation shocked the Croydon community by deciding to close its fee-paying girls’ school, Old Palace, the charity has decided to re-balance its education provision by converting one of its other large independent schools … Continue reading →

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Enter the Almshouses and travel back in time four centuries

Posted on April 20, 2025 by insidecroydon

SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: There will be an opportunity later this year to take a sneak peak back in time, to 400 years ago. DAVID MORGAN recently visited one of Croydon’s oldest buildings, that trace their history back to the time of … Continue reading →

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Landowner wants public cash to help delayed Westfield project

Posted on April 8, 2025 by insidecroydon

EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES The Whitgift Foundation is in talks with the Mayor of London and central government for another multi-million-pound bail-out for Croydon, this one likely to centre around building around 3,000 homes in the town centre. That’s according … Continue reading →

Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Business, Centrale, Charity, Housing, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, North End Quarter, Old Palace, Planning, Property, Roisha Hughes, Schools, TfL, Tom Copley, Trinity School, Under The Flyover, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 7 Comments

Carers file mass complaint to CQC over council’s failures

Posted on March 25, 2025 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Registered carers have written to the independent watchdog to investigate the council’s bungled procurement process, dozens of them volunteering to be interviewed as part of an upcoming inspection. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Croydon’s carers, feeling betrayed by … Continue reading →

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Carers’ Centre staff now face redundancy under new provider

Posted on March 7, 2025 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Valued workers based in George Street look set to pay with their jobs so that Mayor Perry can dodge criticism. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES Just days after Mayor Jason Perry denied he was performing a U-turn when … Continue reading →

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People’s protests force Perry into U-turn over Carers’ Centre

Posted on February 28, 2025 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Mayor forced to change cost-cutting plans after just a fortnight, following his confrontation on Katharine Street, a choral protest at the Town Hall and more than 2,000 signatures on a petition. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES The Croydon … Continue reading →

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Perry confronted outside Town Hall over Carers’ Centre closure

Posted on February 25, 2025 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Senior council official tells meeting held in George Street that he and his staff ‘had no knowledge about the closure of the centre or new service provider’. PLUS: Protests planned for Wednesday night against more service cuts … Continue reading →

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Hindu fellowship buys Old Palace prep school site for £7.5m

Posted on February 24, 2025 by insidecroydon

The new owners of what was once Croham Hurst Primary are BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha, who want to use the site for educational purposes, while making it available for community use, as GENE BRODIE, our education correspondent, reports The Whitgift Foundation … Continue reading →

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Hundreds sign petition to protest at Carers’ Centre closure

Posted on February 18, 2025 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Mayor Perry accused of ‘shallow hypocrisies’ as the borough’s carers question whether council has conducted proper equalities impact assessments over the switch of contracts from local charities A petition set up by users and supporters of the … Continue reading →

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‘Council is gas-lighting us over support services’ say carers

Posted on February 13, 2025 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: The Carers’ Centre on George Street becomes the latest casualty of Mayor Perry’s cuts, as consultants hired by the council for £1m are thought to be behind the cost-trimming changes Hard-pressed residents who use the Croydon Carers’ … Continue reading →

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Carers ‘devastated’ as new council deal sees ‘sanctuary’ close

Posted on February 12, 2025 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: The hollowing out of the borough continues with the announcement to staff this morning that the Carers’ Centre is to close next month, after the council handed a service contract to another provider. EXCLUSIVE by STEVEN DOWNES … Continue reading →

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Housing association CEO takes lead role at Whitgift Foundation

Posted on February 3, 2025 by insidecroydon

For the first time in more than 400 years, the Whitgift Foundation is to be led by a woman. “That’s if you don’t count Queen Elizabeth I,” confided a wag at the Whitgift Almshouses, where the charity and multi-million-pound property … Continue reading →

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Buyers found for two former private schools in South Croydon

Posted on January 29, 2025 by insidecroydon

EXCLUSIVE: The slow saga of the closure of Old Palace School may be about to take a significant step over the future of its former prep school, while Coombe House by Lloyd Park, offered at £6m, is ‘sold subject to … Continue reading →

Posted in Charity, Housing, Oakwood, Old Palace, Planning, Property, Schools, South Croydon, Whitgift Foundation | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 7 Comments

Foundation sets £7m price tag on Old Palace’s listed buildings

Posted on December 17, 2024 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: The Whitgift Foundation, the borough’s biggest landowner, is now flogging off the Tudor palace home of the charity’s founder. It might not be an ‘easy’ sale. By STEVEN DOWNES “For sale with vacant possession”. The estate agent’s … Continue reading →

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Trinity names Caden Cheong as this year’s Steinway scholar

Posted on December 12, 2024 by insidecroydon

Caden Cheong, a Sixth Former at Trinity School, has been named as this year’s Steinway Scholar. The annual Trinity-Steinway Scholarship supports talented pianists by providing tuition at The Royal College of Music, professional-level performance opportunities and attendance at an international … Continue reading →

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It’s pod-tastic! Croydon Insider looks at 2024’s biggest stories

Posted on December 9, 2024 by insidecroydon

The Croydon Insider is back, with the latest episode of our news discussion panel podcast thingy… And the last pod-tastic episode of 2024 looks back on the Croydon news of the past 12 months in the company of former BBC … Continue reading →

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Ghostly convocation that is hardly a good omen for the Palace

Posted on December 8, 2024 by insidecroydon

SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: As we head into the season of ghostly stories and things that go ‘bump’ in the night, DAVID MORGAN has a tale for troubled times in Croydon… The tram rattled along Church Street and came to a halt … Continue reading →

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Foundation now looking for buyer for Whitgift’s old palace

Posted on November 16, 2024 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: Little more than a year since the shock announcement that it would be closing its girls’ fee-paying school, and still mired in a financial hole caused by delays over the redevelopment of the town centre, the borough’s … Continue reading →

Posted in "Hammersfield", Allders, Business, CPO, Education, Old Palace, Schools, Trinity School, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Whitgift Centre, Whitgift Foundation, Whitgift School | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 10 Comments

Waiting for Westfield leaves us Urban Room for improvement

Posted on November 14, 2024 by insidecroydon

With not a moment to lose, KEN TOWL dashed down to the Whitgift Centre to try to discover what the multi-national developers might have in store for the town centre, amid their models made of cereal packets and design briefs … Continue reading →

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Westfield wants to build five times as many flats in town centre

Posted on November 13, 2024 by insidecroydon

CROYDON IN CRISIS: The one-time shopping mall developer is shapeshifting its business towards residential property, but appears in no hurry to action any of its promises after more than a decade of blight to North End. By our housing correspondent, … Continue reading →

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