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Croydon’s own wire service: news releases summarized for your convenience by the Citizen team. Get inspired to write your own stories and make your own mind up about what’s going on in the news

Historic Beulah Spa to be commemorated by Mayor of Croydon

Screen25 South Norwood announces new Friday screenings this autumn

Announcing The Redux Project/Croydonites Official Crollywood Movie Location Tour – Tuesday 7th August 2018, 7 pm at St George's Walk

Striving to help the Croydon community

Turf Projects to run new summer art courses in Croydon town centre

London Learning Consortium, London Youth and Croydon Works join together to mark ERSA's UK Employability Day 2018

Free swimming for people 16 and under returns to Croydon for summer 2018

Healthwatch Croydon calls for GP practices to work more closely with homeless people

World Humanitarian Drive: striving for our community

Abdul Basit, a Croydon social activist, receives peace award in Delhi, India

Croydon Council green lights Compulsory Purchase Order on remaining land for Westfield retail centre

Businesses invited to free one-to-one support clinic

Join a panel discussion on well-being in Croydon's built environment: beyond sustainability

Seeking veterans in Croydon to help celebrate Armed Forces Day 2018

Croydon marks Dementia Action Week with a celebration of the Swinging Sixties

Announcing Croydon's first Festival of Peace, 16th–23rd June 2018

Charity launches new video to promote how it is #HelpingCroydon

Croydonites Festival of New Theatre announces its programme for 2018

A City Law Firm comes to Croydon

Croydon Council to take libraries back in house following the liquidation of Carillion

Neville Osrin appointed Chairman for London Mozart Players Orchestra Ltd

Announcing the Croydon Creative Carers' exhibition, Saturday 13th January

Kalpa West Croydon nominated in competition to find UK's best South Asian restaurant

Croydon Connect offers professional and personal development for young people

New play about perceptions of beauty and race to be premiered in Croydon

Smoothbean! coffee shop achieves Trip Advisor's Certificate of Excellence for a second year running

This is who created the "Diana mural"

Croydon’s popular craft beer festival returns 27th-29th July

Croydon dance group selected for national dance festival

London Mozart Players champions arts and community in Croydon with #LMPOnTheMove tour

Croydon Heritage Festival 2017 announces 'evolution' as its theme

Pioneering theatre of the insect world to be premiered at Croydon's Theatre Utopia

'Burnt out and under-valued': Croydon author tackles issues faced by millennials in the workplace

Local businesses bring Christmas cheer to isolated with gift hampers 10 years running

Croydon's first PrideFest to be held on Sunday 28th August

Croydon youth invited to participate in new theatre project this summer

National Trust announces Edge City Croydon

Smoothbean coffee shop in Dingwall Road announces summer evening opening

Croydon's newest music festival, Radfest, announces its line-up

Croydon poetry group will hold guided walk in the town centre on Saturday 2nd July

Croydon's sixth Environmental Fair comes to Wandle Park on Saturday 11th June

Croydon Minster to hold 30-hour 'hymnathon' to raise money to repair church organ

Trinity School in Shirley joins nationwide campaign against homophobia in sport

Breakfast Cats theatre company to perform The Complete Works of Shakespeare at the Oval

Leading gay historian to speak in Croydon

Croydon Craft Beer Festival set for Thursday 17th – Saturday 19th March 2016 in the Braithwaite Hall

Croydon to hold its first Ukelele Festival this weekend

Croydon social entrepreneur recognised in top 100 most inspiring entrepreneurs in the UK

Healthwatch responds to announcement of Croydon Clinical Commissioning Group funding shortfall for 2016-17

Acclaimed comic Rosie Wilby returns to Croydon's Spread Eagle pub theatre with 'Is Monogamy Dead?'

Communicate with us better to improve hospital discharge, say Croydon's older patients

Croydon care provider wins London Care Award

Croydon's Opportunity and Fairness Commission to launch its final report

Small businesses hindered by skills shortage

Croydon is the next stop for start-ups, says Cabinet Office minister

Festive lighting returns to Lower Addiscombe Road thanks to residents' association

LOAF, a new iPod food and recipe app, launches from 3Space Croydon

Love Buzzards announced as the headline band for new local music night, 'To Hell With Good Intentions'

Croydon marks International Transgender Day of Remembrance

'To Hell With Good Intentions' live music night announced by Croydon band, Frauds

Bashford & Co Traditional Family Butchers makes national finals in Best Butcher's Shop of the Year Awards 2015

Demand soars for space in Boxpark Croydon

Cane Hill Park developers help boost Coulsdon Yulefest

New art and design gallery opens in St George's Walk

Croydon International Film Festival returns to Matthew's Yard on Saturday 28th November

Oyster zone to extend to Gatwick Airport

Croydon Council to pay London Living Wage

Harvest gets underway at Croydon Saffron Central

Croydon's Ambition Festival nominated for two national festival awards

Plaque unveiled to honour Betty Westgate, cancer care campaigner and pioneer

Street LIVE! initiative makes busking pay in Croydon

Aerodrome Primary awarded Primary School of the Year

Croydon Council to host 'Social Saturday' on 10th October

Community invited to track the progress of crocus sativus (Croydon's namesake flower) planted across the borough

CCHA School’s Out Summer Holiday Programme

Westfield/Hammerson compulsory purchase order confirmed, Croydon Council welcomes decision

Develop Croydon summit set to bring forward plans for Croydon's devolution

My Outspace Business Centre holds networking event to mark first anniversary

Bollywood film season announced for David Lean cinema

Croydon start-up's second studio is a thing of beauty

Local Croydon Youth help keep Green green

James Whale to host Croydon Business Excellence Awards 2015

Shakespeare workshops for children to run this autumn at Warlingham Church Hall

Announcement of Wanderers fixtures at AFC Croydon

Wimbledon College of Arts’ student creates bust of Jeans for Genes Ambassador Adam Pearson

Lack of support leads to Croydon hospital admissions, say mental health patients

Croydon Saffron Central brings namesake flower back to town centre

Croydon Opportunity and Fairness Commission to hold an Open Day on Tuesday 1st September

StickyWorld website seeks to involve Croydon residents in regeneration debate

Turf gallery announces new exhibition about food and art

Croydon bowler makes Croydon Civic Awards Volunteer of the Year competition finals

Acclaimed play denouncing abuse comes to Fairfield Halls

Feel that summer lovin’ as the rooftop cinema season begins in Croydon

Croydon University Hospital nominated for national award

New pop-up coffee shop opens at Stanley Halls in South Norwood

Golden Weekend For Croydon At Youth Games

Sign up for this year's summer reading challenge

LEGO Education to put on Croydon library ‘taster’ sessions throughout summer

Boxpark Croydon launch event announced for Thursday 23rd July

New council development company to deliver Taberner House scheme

Hundreds attracted to Croydon table tennis festival

Croydon Council leader calls on PM to choose Gatwick

Maurice Glasman, director of London Metropolitan University's Faith and Citizenship programme, speaks in Croydon

Croydon children invited to learn about bees during school holidays

TURF projects announces second exhibition in its town centre gallery space

10,000 attend the restaurant quarter's South End Food Festival 2015

8,000 attend Purley Festival weekend finale event

Beats and Eats comes to Project B on Saturday 27th June

Croydon singers to take to the stage at Central Hall, Westminster, on Saturday 11th July

Be a friend in Croydon: act now and help change the future of loneliness

Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association invites local people to go Wilde In The Park this July

400 young Croydonians take part in UK's largest sit-down meal and Islamic rally

Upcycling Cardboard with Lives Not Knives, on Saturday 20th June: an event for London Technology Week

'If I ruled the world': young voices take centre stage at Croydon Heritage Festival 2015

Chairman bows out after 17 years' service to Purley and Woodcote Residents' Association

Croydonians of many faiths get on their bikes for the Interfaith Bike Ride, Sunday 14th June

Private Eye cartoonist giving talk in Croydon

Angling silver for Croydon

Croydon Council and South London Partnership announce case for devolution

Shortlist announced for Croydon Business Awards 2015

New night Stand launches at Arnhem Gallery – Sinead Hartnett, CJ Beatz and more

TURF Projects opens new art gallery in Croydon town centre

Croydon Council offers online support to people with autism

Purley Festival 2015 announces headline acts

Croydon pupils try hockey and tennis free at London 2012 venue

Give and Gain Day, 15th May 2015, offers Croydon employees the chance to volunteer in their communities

Delegates on Develop Croydon Investor Tour respond to Croydon's changing environment

'Croydon Till I Die': a series of summer events celebrating the suburbs

85 years on, Amy Johnson's record-breaking flight from Croydon to Sydney is commemorated

Skycasts: Croydon-based counselling service offers innovative youth mental health workshops

London's first regular live music night for musicians with learning disabilities to return to Croydon in May

Albert's Table announces new wine event

Coulsdon ex-soldier tackles London marathon for military charity

Bereavement seminar draws capacity attendance

Young Opportunity and Fairness Commission launches

David Lean cinema thanks its most loyal patron

Project B launch daytime café-bar

Addiscombe Carnival announced for Saturday May 25th in Ashburton Park

Traditional hustings, Speakers' Corner-style, to take place in Croydon town centre on Saturday 25th April

Nominations for Croydon's Good Stall Awards close soon

Barnardo’s says that housing and benefits system is failing homeless children stuck in Croydon B&Bs

Open buildings revealed for 2015 Croydon Heritage Festival

Croydon Opportunity and Fairness Commission to examine rise in homelessness

Croydon North constituency in the top ten for pedestrian road casualties in Britain

Thornton Road GP's marathon world record attempt in traditional dress

Royal Russell Players to stage production of 'The Wonderful World of Disoccia'

Hit Edinburgh show coming to Croydon's Spread Eagle pub theatre

New plans announced for College Green in central Croydon

Croydon's Flower Fairies artist and Park Hill Park fairy trail to feature in Heritage Festival 2015

Croydon Charity Chess Challenge, Saturday 16th May at the Fairfield Halls

Voters of Croydon encouraged to register well before election deadline

Basketball silver for Croydon school

BBC Question Time comes to Trinity School, Croydon

Croydon Council creates 'Don't Bottle It Up' website to promote awareness of sensible drinking habits

Croydon welcomes chancellor's £7m growth zone budget announcement

Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association (CODA) to stage Agatha Christie in the Braithwaite Hall

Pinot Blanc is Croydon's favourite wine

Discover Chinese art and culture at Hale Man’s art studio in the Whitgift Centre

Residents and businesses in Thornton Heath invited to have their say on improving the area

Croydon Council launches Cycle Alert initiative

Coulsdon Memorial Ground's Bowling Green reopening on 28th March

Enterprise chief backs Croydon entrepreneur

Boxpark Croydon to open early in 2016

Celebrity hairdresser to open training salon in Croydon

Chef of celebrated Croydon restaurant, Albert's Table, to take part in educational documentary

Croydon's Opportunity and Fairness Commission to hold inaugural meeting in New Addington

Merton and South-Croydon man wins 'Barista of the Year'!

Croydon College setting for ‘sci fi’ movie

NSPCC in Croydon appeals for volunteers to deliver a new service to help mothers protect their children from sexual abuse

Mayor of Croydon to open artistic celebration of Chinese New Year taking place on Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd February

Croydon's cyclists challenged to give e-bikes a try

London's first regular live music night for musicians with learning disabilities returns to Croydon in February

Cumnor House School Purley pupils take part in farm-to-fork trail

RISE Gallery to collaborate with Femme Fierce to produce street art in Croydon

Croydon's icons lead the way in this year's Heritage Festival

Croydon's World Food market relaunches for the New Year

Croydonian crowned Bacofoil Student Cook of the Year

Croydon Opportunity and Fairness Commission to launch at Stanley Halls on Wednesday 28th January

How local businesses can work for Croydon Council

Foster Care UK Croydon raises over £400 at fundraiser to help beat eating disorders

Community champions boost fly-tipping crackdown

Open day to promote free English classes for women in Croydon

SilverFit charity scheme helps Croydon's seniors get active

Croydon student to star in televised Christmas lectures

Croydon needs YOU! Volunteers wanted for the London New Year's Day Parade

Croydon students get 'treated' by classroom medics

Ambition – Croydon to host a new festival on the fringe of London

Croydon's shoppers donate more than £4k to foodbanks

Albert's Table Croydon: first tasting evening of 2015 announced

Kaiser Wilhelm's great-great-grandson to attend Croydon's Silent Night carols

Croydon Council launches Independent Visitors network to support young people in care

Arts career boost for Croydon teens

Remembering the World War One Christmas truce: 'Silent Night' at the Crystal Palace stadium

Gatwick Airport commitment underlines belief that Croydon's time is now

Croydon hotel receives international award

Wanderers football team moves to Croydon

Croydon takes centre stage in Gatwick debate

Club Soda Croydon and Bad Apple give opportunities to young DJs with learning disabilities

Johann Strauss Gala – celebrating 40 years – comes to Fairfield Halls this December

Croydon Amnesty Group calls on shoppers to 'write for rights' this winter

Wandle treasure hunt gets underway!

Students to help preserve historic train

Croydon seeks Autumn Statement boost from George Osborne

Smarta Start-up Loans welcomes entrepreneurs to Croydon's Hampton-by-Hilton hotel for its monthly loans event

Entrepreneurial initiative aimed at 16-25 year-olds due to launch in Croydon with a 50k prize fund

Two Croydon businesses get grant to create jobs

Bernard Weatherill House wins top architectural award

Liverpool University, Goldsmiths College London and Guys and St Thomas's Hospital Trust to run research project in Croydon on the value of reading

Develop Croydon hosts conference to discuss how the expansion of Gatwick could benefit Croydon

Gatwick airport expansion could provide jobs in Croydon

£1 parking in central Croydon over Christmas

New platforms proposed for East Croydon station

Street food traders show off skills at Croydon food hub

Clarence & Fredericks' kicks off Christmas with Open Day to launch festive beer

Croydon dentists rebel against price rises and patient delays

International violinist Chloe Hanslip returns to Croydon to inspire young players

Release of Martin How CD recorded at Croydon Minster

Croydon's newest gallery, RISE, opens Thursday 23rd October in St George's Walk

Need a break? Fair trade tourism comes to Croydon

Academy to open in former South Norwood Police Station

Small businesses love Croydon

Croydon's young singers tune in for choral premiere

Wine tasting in Croydon to raise awareness of Fairtrade wines

Sixth Arts and Crafts Fair to be held in Exchange Square

Croydon Community Against Trafficking (CCAT) marks Anti-Slavery Day 2014

Yulefest organisers call on community to make this year's Christmas celebration even more special than the last

BRIT School and Certitude launch student community award

Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association presents The Wind In The Willows at the Charles Cryer Theatre this autumn

An eco-friendly motor show for Croydon

Croydon firm Harris Global is first to win Gold CSR Award

Club Soda Croydon nominated to win Grassroots Giving award

Croydon Amateur Choir to sing with Blake at the Ashcroft Theatre

Croydon's Archbishop Lanfranc School and Oasis Academy pupils chosen to design team rugby shirt

Croydon Airport to take part in Open House London weekend 20th - 21st September 2014

Croydon University Centre students play leading role in transforming West Croydon's shop fronts

La vita e Croydon: Italian masterclass comes to Coulsdon

Silicon Valley, Old Street… Croydon? #TechCity's role in the growth of tech business in the UK

Live@Croydon pop-up emporium comes to Church Street

42 slides in just one day – Croydon dance company SLiDE launches fundraiser challenge

UK quality mark for Croydon College

Croydon local urges more young unemployed to use the Prince's Trust

Croydon marks centenary of WWI outbreak

Free live music event at LNK unit tomorrow

South London Jobs Fair to create opportunities for local businesses and generate employment

Riverside café opens in Wandle Park

Croydon Partnership to support West Croydon Carnival of Cultures

Whitgift Foundation launches Academy of Performing Arts

Lenny Zakatek headlines South End Food Festival Sunday 20th July

Trinity U12's crowned Surrey cricket champions

Leading charities launch new Croydon Advice Services

CEO celebrates 40 years at Croydon Accountants Bryden Johnson

Croydon artist-designed crazy golf course to open on Friday 18th July

Pop-up shop in Croydon cons customers

Croydon Council confirms Nathan Elvery as new CEO

'Love Norbury' campaign to tidy up town takes off

Croydon councillor lobbies Home Secretary to call time on domestic violence

Bumper gold medal haul almost gives Croydon Youth Games title

Head of Croydon School of Art to undertake charity swim to Isle of Wight

New schools to be built in Croydon

Croydon School of Art student sets up her own fashion label

Social network bringing community together

Lives Not Knives hosts tech day during London Technology Week

Logistics company launches course in Croydon to stop shortage of qualified drivers

Restored Wandle Park to host open-air production of A Midsummer Night's Dream by the Croydon Opera and Dramatic Association, Wednesday 30th July – Saturday 2nd August

Croydon's potential showcased to investors

World Food Market takes over East Croydon

Croydon College students collaborate to write a crime thriller in just five days

Cloud expert Pulsant builds and configures own high voltage network

Landlord-turned-film-maker shoots ghost story in historic Croydon pub

South End food festival to return to Croydon on Sunday 20th July

New Specialist STEM Academy Announced for East Croydon

East Croydon to be transformed

Opportunity to become a Friend of Waddon Ponds offered to locals by Croydon Council

Trinity school pupils display wealth of talent in summer exhibition

Private development, public amenity? Debate on the future of urban space in Crystal Palace Park to be hosted on June 28th by The Information Project group

Coulsdon bowling green starts summer classes for young players

Croydon College ranked 'good' in Ofsted report

£3,000 donation to The Fire Fighter's Charity for help during flooding

Sam Phillips wins Community Coach of the Year Award at the home of Harlequins

Royal Seal of Approval for Croydon College

Trinity Boys Choir sings in Maleficent

South London's biggest business expo returns to Croydon

Danny’s Fish and Chips in Old Coulsdon named Britain’s Best Chippy

Croydon invests in entrepreneurs of the future

New benches installed at bowling green in Coulsdon South

Croydon choir to go on tour

Croydon College students campaign for FGM charter

Croydon Citizens Advice 75th year is off and running

Inter-religious group runs event to promote reflection on faith, forgiveness and freedom

Marking International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia in Croydon

Communist Party candidate in Broad Green speaks out on the demise of local government

Taking Action On Stroke in Croydon

#Croydon #TechCity startup runs Kickstarter campaign for Raspberry Pi add-on board

Croydon Airport Society to unveil 'Tom's sign'

‘Parks in your pocket’: Mobile map of London’s parks and green spaces comes to Croydon

Croydon school recognised at nationwide communication awards

Event to raise awareness about threatened youth club

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