🌤️ Today, Thursday 22/10/2026: sunny intervals and a high of 14°C, with rain arriving late this evening and turning heavy overnight.

🌧️ Friday 23/10/2026: heavy rain through the day, a high of 13°C and gusts of up to 38mph. Check before you travel.

⚠️ Saturday 24/10/2026: a dry, bright morning, then rain from around midday that turns heavy through the afternoon. High of 16°C, gusts of up to 37mph.

🌦️ Sunday 25/10/2026: sunny intervals and a high of 14°C, still breezy with gusts of up to 31mph.

Source: Met Office, Croydon forecast

Croydon Council is consulting residents on changes to its Council Tax Support scheme, which reduces the Council Tax bill for households on lower incomes. The questions cover several options, including reducing the maximum award for certain groups, among them households receiving a disability benefit who are not working, lone parents with a child under five, and other working-age claimants. It also asks about income allowances, savings limits, a Council Tax band cap, a hardship fund and a transition period for any changes.

The consultation closes on 10 November. You can respond online on the consultation page. Inside Croydon notes that you need to confirm your email address after submitting, or your response will not be counted. South Norwood Community Kitchen has also published a guide to the consultation questions for anyone who would like help working through them. For the full detail of what is being proposed, please read the consultation page itself.

Sources: Inside Croydon, South Norwood Community Kitchen

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🗳️ Croydon BID ballot: voting closed at 5pm yesterday on whether Croydon BID continues for 2027 to 2032. We will share the result once it is published. Source: Croydon BID

📑 SimpleBid: Bid to Win, 4:30pm to 6:30pm, Croydon Smile Hub, 159 London Road CR0 2RJ, free. A practical workshop on finding and applying for public sector contracts and grants, open to local businesses, charities, CICs and aspiring entrepreneurs. It runs every Thursday. Source: SimpleBid

📸 Photography exhibition, Riff Raffs, George Street. A photography exhibition is listed here for today. The listing is a poster, so please check it for times and details. Source: Inside Croydon community listing

🎭 The Hound of the Baskervilles, 7pm, The Spread Eagle, £15. Source: Croydon BID

🎸 New Rose night: 50 Years of Punk Rock, 7:30pm, The Oval Tavern, 131 Oval Road. Today is the 50th anniversary of the release of "New Rose" by The Damned, and DJ Stuart Collins marks it in aid of the Civic Mayor's charities, Legacy Youth Zone and Reaching Higher. Source: event poster supplied by Stuart Collins

🎤 Karaoke Night, 8pm, The Porter and Sorter, free. Source: Croydon BID

Times can change, so please check each organiser's listing before you travel.

Half-term listings run from Saturday, so check your own school's dates. With heavy rain forecast on Friday and Saturday afternoon, Saturday morning looks like the best window for anything outdoors.

🍵 Menopause Fun Palace: art making and tea party, Friday 23/10/2026, 2pm to 4:45pm, Turf Projects, upstairs in the Whitgift Centre, opposite the pipe organ, free. See the mini art exhibition and make your own artistic response. Aimed at adults, with family welcome, and teas will be served. Source: Creative Croydon CIC

🚋 Saturday 24/10/2026, heads-up: the two-week tram closure east of East Croydon begins. See The Daily Commute below.

🎉 Whitehorse Road community garden: 10-year celebration, Saturday 24/10/2026, 11am to 5pm, Whitehorse Road Recreation Ground, Boulogne Road entrance, Selhurst, free. A children's entertainer at 11am, a pet parade at 12pm, a colourful "dopamine dressing" walk at 12:30pm, live music from local talent all day, Black History Month songs from Roz Thornton at 2pm and a share-your-skills Fun Palace from 2pm to 4pm. Source: Creative Croydon CIC

🌳 The Sensible Garden reopening, Saturday 24/10/2026, 12pm to 2pm, South Norwood High Street SE25 6EF. A tidied-up garden named in honour of Captain Sensible. Source: Stuart Collins

🧸 Pollock's Toy Museum Pop-Up, Saturday 24/10/2026, 11am to 4pm, Whitgift Centre, free. Source: Croydon BID

🎮 Next Level, Saturday 24 to Tuesday 27/10/2026, Centrale, Upper Mall, free. Four days of gaming, esports and creativity for half-term, with a BRIT School arcade where visitors can design a pixel art character, plus live podcast recording from Reaching Higher's young people and a chance to hear from people working in the industry. Source: Croydon BID

🛝 Kids Play Free at PLAYBOX, Saturday 24 to Friday 30/10/2026, PLAYBOX Croydon. Please check the listing for the offer's conditions before you go. Source: Croydon BID

🕐 Sunday 25/10/2026: the clocks go back an hour in the early hours, so you get an extra hour in bed.

🍽️ The Kids' Table, Sunday 25/10/2026, 12pm to 4pm, BOXPARK Croydon, free. Source: Croydon BID

❓ Sunday Quiz, Sunday 25/10/2026, 7pm, The Spread Eagle, £2. Source: Croydon BID

🦖 Dinosaur Adventure Live: Danger on T-Rex Mountain, Monday 26/10/2026, Fairfield Halls, £19.75. Check the listing for show times. Source: Croydon BID

🎃 Halloween: Family Fun Day, Tuesday 27/10/2026, 12pm to 4pm, BOXPARK Croydon, free. Source: Croydon BID

🖌️ MINULI Makers: My Little Pumpkin Patch, Thursday 29/10/2026, 11am, Centrale Shopping Centre, Upper Mall, £12, ages 2 to 10. Come in your Halloween costume and make your own spooky pumpkin patch. Spaces are limited, so book through Happity. Source: Happity

🎶 All Roads Lead to Croydon: An Evening with Andy Baker, Thursday 29/10/2026, free but you must reserve a ticket. Check the Eventbrite listing for the time and venue. Source: Eventbrite

🚂 Little City Croydon x Trainmaster, Friday 30/10/2026, 9:30am to 11am, Our Lady of the Annunciation Church Hall, 147 Bingham Road CR0 7EN, £15. Train tracks and role play for little ones, for the first Croydon visit from Trainmaster South London. Source: Little City Croydon

🎭 The 2026 Croydonites Festival, Wednesday 4 to Saturday 21/11/2026. See the festival site for the programme and tickets. Source: Croydonites

🎨 SoCro Art Fair returns on Sunday 8 November. Now in its fourth year, the fair brings more than 50 local creatives to Coombe Wood School, with paintings, lino prints, ceramics, stained glass, hand-spun knitwear, candles and jewellery, so it is a good place to start the Christmas present list. It runs 10am to 3:30pm at Coombe Wood School, 30 Melville Avenue, South Croydon CR2 7HY, entry is free, and there is a prize draw with 15 prizes from Aroma-Zone UK. Source: SoCro Art

🏰 Croydon's wartime evacuees at Waddesdon Manor. During the Second World War, more than 100 nursery-age children from Croydon were evacuated to the Rothschild family's Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire, where they spent time in the gardens and helped with Dig for Victory. The story is told for the first time in a display called 1939-1945: A House Interrupted, which runs until 29 November and is free with grounds admission (£14 for adults, £7 for ages 5 to 18). Do you know someone who was evacuated from Croydon, or a family story from those years? Tell us and we may share it in a future issue. Source: Inside Croydon

🤝 Know a local group doing something good? Tell us about it and we may feature it in a future issue.

🚋 The Daily Commute: no trams east of East Croydon for two weeks. From Saturday 24/10/2026 to Friday 06/11/2026, there will be no trams between East Croydon and New Addington, Elmers End or Beckenham Junction. TfL is carrying out track renewal, including at the Kent Gate Way road crossing, on about 1,000 metres of track between Arena and Elmers End, and at Sandilands tunnel. Works run 24 hours a day with replacement buses in place. Plan ahead with the TfL Go app or journey planner. Source: Inside Croydon

🚌 Fares going up on 01/11/2026. The adult bus and tram fare, including the Hopper, rises by 10p from £1.75 to £1.85, and the daily bus and tram cap goes up by 30p to £5.55. Source: Inside Croydon

Croydon Almshouses, described as the oldest charity in the borough, was founded in 1447 by Elis David (also written Elias Davy), a London merchant. That is earlier than the Whitgift Almshouses in the town centre, which are a separate charity. Since 1 October the charity has also run St Saviour's Court in Purley, which has 53 flats, alongside the 57 flats at Elis David Almshouses in Waddon. Source: Inside Croydon

🧺 Laundry House Express is a Croydon laundry and dry cleaning service that collects, washes and delivers, so there are no trips to the launderette. Wash, dry and fold starts at £19.75 for a 6kg load, with free collection and delivery across Croydon on orders over £20. Its Wash Club subscription, from £17.55 a week for 6kg, puts your laundry on repeat, and it also offers commercial laundry for hotels, care homes, salons and Airbnb hosts.

It is based at Weatherill House, 23 Whitestone Way, Croydon CR0 4WF. Please check its site for opening hours and collection slots before you book.

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