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🌦️ CROYDON DAILY WEATHER
☂️ BROLLY WATCH, today, Monday 12/10/2026: Overcast and mild at around 17°C, with showers possible at any point. The best chance of rain is late morning (about 60% at 11am), with another spell likely around 8pm. Gusts up to about 23mph.
🌦️ Tomorrow, Tuesday 13/10/2026: A wet late morning, with the heaviest rain around 11am to noon, then a bright, sunny afternoon. Warm at around 21°C, feeling nearer 18°C, with gusts up to about 28mph.
☀️ Wednesday 14/10/2026: Dry and sunny, around 19°C, with a breezy afternoon and gusts up to about 26mph.
Source: Met Office. Forecasts can change, so check before you head out.
🏛️ THE HEARTBEAT: WEDNESDAY'S CABINET AND THREE DECISIONS THAT COULD TOUCH YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD
Croydon Council's Executive Mayor and Cabinet meet on Wednesday 14/10/2026 at 6:30pm in the Council Chamber at the Town Hall, Katharine Street. Three items on the agenda affect parks, adult learning and community buildings. In each case Cabinet is being asked to approve consultation, or a route towards a decision, rather than a final outcome.
🌳 Drinking and nuisance rules for every park and eight high streets. The council wants to extend Public Space Protection Orders (PSPOs) to 127 parks and open spaces, from Lloyd Park and Wandle Park to Farthing Downs, and to the district centres of Crystal Palace, Norbury, Addiscombe, Purley, Coulsdon, Selsdon, New Addington and South Norwood. It also wants to renew Thornton Heath's order, which lapses in February. A PSPO makes certain behaviour in a mapped area a criminal offence. The Mayor's introduction says the powers would help with street drinking, noise nuisance, harassment and intimidation, but the exact prohibitions have not been published and will be set out in the consultation. In Thornton Heath, officers logged 409 incidents between February 2024 and June 2026, and 384 involved alcohol. Croydon Today reports that nobody has been fined so far, because the police do not issue fixed penalty notices for breaches.
📚 Adult learning could move to outside providers. Croydon Adult Learning and Training (CALAT) employs 197 people, mostly sessional or casual tutors. The council proposes to stop teaching courses itself and instead buy them from colleges, charities and training providers. It says CALAT faces a shortfall of about £500,000 this year, and that the plan is "not a cut" to the adult learning grant. If Cabinet agrees, a 21-day consultation runs from 1 to 21 November, and buying would start from 1 December if the final decision goes ahead. If you are a learner, courses continue this term, and most classes are moving from the Clocktower to Strand House in Thornton Heath this month.
🏘️ 31 more buildings and plots join the disposal list. They include Coulsdon Community Centre, the Phoenix Centre in Upper Norwood, Lantern Hall and 14 Scout huts and camps. The Mayor says 24 of the 31 are community assets, and the council's preferred approach is to offer them to their existing users first. The report says that if terms cannot be agreed, the council keeps the building. If your group uses one of these buildings, it is worth asking whether the council has been in touch, because a transfer usually brings the running costs with it.
The same meeting also looks at the draft 2027/28 budget and its 4.99% Council Tax rise. Papers are on the council's democracy site.
Sources: Croydon Today on the PSPO plan, Croydon Today on CALAT, Croydon Today on the disposal list, citing Croydon Council's Cabinet papers.
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📅 TODAY: MONDAY 12/10/2026
🍂 Tiny Harvest, 10am, Christ Church, 114 Lower Addiscombe Road. Check the organiser's post for details. Source: East Croydon Community Organisation
🎲 Monday Night Games, 6:30pm, The Ludoquist, £8. Source: Croydon BID
🤝 Domestic Abuse Forum, 7pm, St Mildred's Church, 30 Bingham Road. Source: East Croydon Community Organisation
❓ Big Fat Quizbox, 7pm to 9pm, BOXPARK Croydon, from £2.93 to £11.52 depending on the ticket. Source: Croydon BID
Times can change, so please check each organiser's listing before you travel.
🗓️ WEEK AHEAD: SAVE THE DATE
🏗️ Whitgift plans drop-ins: Wednesday 14/10/2026, 4pm to 6pm, East Croydon station, and Thursday 15/10/2026, 1pm to 3pm, North End. Inside Croydon reported on 5 October that the developer now wants a data centre as well as up to 4,000 homes, and the Wednesday session is billed as a chance to find out more. Sources: East Croydon Community Organisation, Inside Croydon, Croydon Today
🧵 Introduction to Bobbin Lacemaking, Wednesday 14/10/2026, 6pm to 9pm, Museum of Croydon, £10 (£15 for two), booking required. Source: Museum of Croydon
🪡 Crafting Croydon with Elly Platt, Thursday 15/10/2026, 6:30pm to 8:30pm, Museum of Croydon, from £4, booking required. A hand-sewing workshop making textile art from upcycled fabrics, inspired by Croydon's buildings. Source: Museum of Croydon
🎷 Live Jam Session by SoulCulture, Thursday 15/10/2026, from 7pm, The Dog, 24 Surrey Street, free. Source: Croydon BID
🎹 Lunchtime recitals at Croydon Minster run on Fridays at 1:10pm this term, so bring a packed lunch. The Minster has not published individual dates. Source: Croydon Minster
👻 Spooky Quiz Night, Saturday 17/10/2026, 6:30pm, The Ludoquist, 63-67 High Street, £2 a head. Source: The Ludoquist
🎭 Lightstreams, Saturday 17/10/2026, 7pm, Stanley Arts, £17, ages 14 and over. Lumenis Theatre's play about migrant social care workers, with content warnings on the venue's page. Source: Stanley Arts
📚 Goblin Market: Comics and Zines, Sunday 18/10/2026, noon to 5pm, Stanley Arts, free, with drop-in workshops, trinket trades and an animation screening. Source: Stanley Arts
🗳️ Croydon BID ballot closes Wednesday 21/10/2026. Town centre businesses are voting on the BID's 2027 to 2032 business proposal, and the ballot opened on 21 September. Source: Croydon BID
🧡 COMMUNITY WATCH: LAST CHANCE TO DOUBLE YOUR GIFT TO THE NIGHT SHELTER
The Big Give campaign for the Croydon Together night shelter closes at 6pm today, Monday 12/10/2026, and gifts are doubled while the match fund lasts, so a £10 gift becomes £20. Croydon Voluntary Action needs £90,000 to reopen the shelter this winter for up to 20 people, and £45,000 of that is pledged match funding. When Croydon Today checked on 1 October, £13,320 had been raised, so the total will be higher now.
If you would like to volunteer, contact CVA on 020 8253 7070 or [email protected]. If you are worried about someone sleeping rough, you can alert the outreach team through StreetLink.
Source: Croydon Today, citing the Big Give campaign page
📰 NEWS AND NOTES
🚸 School-run road safety: an analysis of Department for Transport figures for 2021 to 2025, carried out for vehicle-recycling firm Scrap Car Comparison, counted 483 collisions within 250 metres of 62 Croydon schools during school-run hours. That is 7.79 per school, second only to central London in the firm's ranking. Inside Croydon also cites TfL figures showing road casualties in Croydon fell 8% between 2017 and 2025, against 27% across London. Inside Croydon's report is a commentary piece critical of the Mayor's transport plans, and it includes no council response. It says Cabinet considers the council's Transport and Parking Strategic Direction this week. Source: Inside Croydon
👗 Crystal Palace Hub Sustainable Fashion Week runs for a fortnight and is now in its second week, with fashion shows and swap shops around Crystal Palace. Source: Inside Croydon
🎭 Croydonites Festival returns from Wednesday 4/11/2026 to Saturday 21/11/2026, with comedy, theatre and art at venues including Stanley Arts. Tickets are on the festival website. Source: Inside Croydon
💡 DID YOU KNOW? SIR DAVID LEAN WAS BORN IN CROYDON
Between 1942 and 1984, Lean directed 16 films that between them won 26 Oscars, including The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia. The volunteer-run David Lean Cinema at the Clocktower has just relaunched its website and given itself a new logo and tagline, "See the world. One film at a time." The cinema says the new mark takes its proportions from the cinema screen.
Source: Inside Croydon
🏫 SCHOOL CORNER AND PTA NOTICEBOARD
🧸 Half term runs 26/10/2026 to 30/10/2026. Early planning: Kids Play Free at PLAYBOX (up to two children aged 15 or under free with each paying adult) runs 24/10/2026 to 30/10/2026, the free Croydon Archives Open Day is on Saturday 24/10/2026 from 11:30am to 4:30pm, and Dinosaur Adventure Live is at the Ashcroft Theatre on Monday 26/10/2026, £19.75. Source: Croydon Today
✂️ The Museum of Croydon has free drop-in craft clubs at the Clocktower: make a paper camera on Wednesday 28/10/2026, 2pm to 3:30pm, and creepy crafts on Friday 30/10/2026, 11:30am to 1pm. Both are suggested for ages five and over. Source: Museum of Croydon
🎇 Park Hill Schools' Association Fireworks, Friday 13/11/2026, gates 5:30pm, Park Hill Junior School, £8 in advance. Source: Park Hill Schools' Association
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🏪 BUSINESS SHOUTOUT: PORTLAND SALT & PEPPER CAFÉ
Independent cafés give a high street its heart, and South Norwood's Portland Road has one worth a visit. Portland Salt & Pepper Café is at 216 Portland Road, London SE25 4QB. Next time you are passing, pop in, say hello and support a local Croydon business.
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