Apply for primary school places
Parents of children who are starting school in September 2018 have only a few more days to complete and submit primary school applications for their children.
Families with a child aged four or who will be four on […]
January 2018
Top marks for Croydon primary schools
Two Croydon primary schools – Beaumont Primary School and St Giles School – are celebrating after receiving glowing Ofsted reports, following the borough’s upward trend.
These latest inspection reports continue the improvements seen across Croydon’s primary schools, with […]
Car park now open 24 hours to public
Croydon Council has converted a staff car park into one for 24-hour public use to boost drivers’ options in the town centre.
As of 7am yesterday (Monday 8 January), Wandle Road surface car park, an open-air site underneath […]
Visit Croydon’s one-stop shop for a happier and healthier 2018
Making New Year’s resolutions can be daunting, but the JustBe Croydon website (www.justbecroydon.org) has been created to provide residents with information, advice and support to make it easier to ditch unhealthy lifestyle habits and kick-start 2018 […]
New exhibition celebrates 150 years since foundation of Croydon School of Art
Art lovers are invited to a special exhibition to mark the 150th anniversary of the foundation of Croydon School of Art.
The free exhibition is on display in the Museum of Croydon Exhibition Gallery until 14 April and […]
Provider announced for devolved Work and Health Programme in south London
The new provider of a £14m Work and Health Programme that aims to help south London residents who have previously been excluded from the world of work back into employment, has been announced today.
Reed in Partnership is […]
Croydon foster carer ‘humbled’ to receive MBE
The chair of Croydon Foster Carers Association has said he was ‘shocked’ and ‘humbled’ to receive an MBE in the New Year’s Honours list 2018.
For the last 16 years Martin Williams and his partner have looked after several […]
Croydon Means Business in 2018
The arrival of the new year has marked the start of 12 months of events, lobbying and celebration of local enterprise as the inaugural Croydon Year for Business gets under way.
Croydon Means Business 2018 aims to support […]
Croydon in post-Grenfell funding warning to Government
Councils face an “unprecedented funding gap” in improving tower block fire safety unless the Government helps them pay for it, the first council retrofitting sprinklers since the Grenfell tragedy has warned.
Croydon Council has requested a face-to-face meeting […]