With schools out for half-term, I want to wish all our pupils, families and schools a relaxing and well-deserved break after what has hopefully felt like a far more normal start to the academic year.
This half-term, children and young people will have access to fun and engaging activities across the borough.
It was fantastic to visit Croydon’s new London South Bank University (LSBU) campus at Electric House today.
Residents in Croydon are being urged to get their flu and Covid-19 booster vaccinations as soon as they are offered, to boost their immunity this winter.
Croydon Council is set to begin a consultation this month on plans to change its council tax support scheme - making it fairer and easier to administer while ensuring those most in need continue to be protected from having to pay any council tax at all.
Croydon is inviting council tenants, industry experts and voluntary sector specialists to apply for board roles to help shape housing improvements across the borough.
Croydon Council is warning residents to beware of buying fake tobacco after trading standards officers and colleagues at HM Revenue and Customs seized around 175,000 illegal cigarettes worth over £100,000.
Like all of us, I have looked on in despair at the situation unfolding in Afghanistan and the humanitarian crisis now facing the Afghan people.
Croydon’s young creative minds are invited to join the borough’s Poet Laureate, Shaniqua Benjamin, and take part in Voices of Croydon - her first online exhibition with the Museum of Croydon.
Croydon businesses will benefit from an extra £2.6m after the council successfully distributed another round of support grants to those impacted by Covid-19 lockdowns, bringing the total allocated to £93m since the start of the pandemic.