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🌦️ CROYDON DAILY WEATHER
☔ Today (Tuesday 20/10/2026): light rain on and off through the day, heaviest this morning and easing off by the evening. High of 12°C, low of 9°C, with light winds. Brolly Alert.
⛅ Wednesday 21/10/2026: cloudy, with a chance of light rain from the morning into the afternoon. High of 14°C. Breezy later, with gusts of up to 31mph.
🌤️ Thursday 22/10/2026: the brightest day of the week, with sunny intervals and a high of 15°C. Rain returns late in the evening.
🌬️ Heads-up for Friday 23/10/2026: wet and windy, with heavy rain overnight, showers through the day and gusts of up to 45mph. Check before you travel.
Source: Met Office, Croydon forecast
🗳️ THE HEARTBEAT: CROYDON BID VOTE CLOSES TOMORROW
Town centre businesses have until 5pm tomorrow, Wednesday 21/10/2026 to return their postal ballot on whether Croydon BID should continue for a fifth five-year term, covering 2027 to 2032. Ballot papers went out on Wednesday 16/09/2026, and the votes will be counted at the Town Hall on Thursday 22/10/2026.
A Business Improvement District is funded by a levy on eligible town centre businesses. To continue, Croydon BID needs a yes vote from the majority of those who vote, both by number of businesses and by total rateable value. In the last ballot in 2021, 92% of voters by number and 95% by value backed it, on a 54% turnout. Croydon BID says it invests around £1m a year in projects and services for the town centre, and council papers say it represented around 480 levy-paying businesses during its current term.
Only eligible business ratepayers get a vote, so this one is for town centre business owners rather than residents. If you run a business in the BID area and have not posted your ballot yet, tomorrow at 5pm is the deadline.
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📅 TODAY: TUESDAY 20/10/2026
🎨 The Big Make exhibition, 10am to 4pm, Croydon Urban Room, Whitgift Centre, free, open until Friday 30/10/2026. Free arts workshops run alongside it from today to Thursday 22/10/2026 for adults and children aged 14 and over, and booking is required. Sources: Inside Croydon, Croydon Urban Room
🎧 Croydon Audio Tour: Croydon's Echoes and Edifices Audio Voyage, 12pm, Fairfield Halls. This audio walk has a daily 12pm slot through to Saturday 31/10/2026. Check the listing for price and booking. Source: Skiddle
Times can change, so please check each organiser's listing before you travel.
🗓️ WEEK AHEAD: SAVE THE DATE
🗳️ Croydon BID ballot closes tomorrow, Wednesday 21/10/2026, at 5pm. The count is on Thursday 22/10/2026 at the Town Hall. Source: Croydon BID
🏛️ Full Council meeting, Wednesday 21/10/2026, 6:30pm. Check the council's website for the agenda. Source: Croydon Council meeting calendar
⚓ Croydon Sea Cadets: New Cadets Evening, AGM and Social, Wednesday 21/10/2026, 7:15pm to 9:30pm, Arnhem House Barracks, 1 Mitcham Road CR0 3RU, free. Open to prospective cadets and their families. Source: Croydon Sea Cadets
🎭 Michael Starring Ben: The Magic of Michael Jackson, Saturday 24/10/2026, 7:30pm, Ashcroft Theatre, Fairfield Halls. Tickets via Ticketmaster. Source: Ticketmaster
😂 Collywobblers Comedy with Shazia Mirza, Chris Ford and Suzie Preece, Sunday 25/10/2026, 7:30pm, The Railway, Norbury SW16 5SD, £8, 18+. Source: Skiddle
🎃 MINULI Makers: My Little Pumpkin Patch, Thursday 29/10/2026, 11am, Centrale Shopping Centre, £12, ages 2 to 10. A half-term Halloween craft session. Source: Happity
🎶 With Love From South, Thursday 29/10/2026, The Village Table, part of Black History Month. Source: Inside Croydon listing
🎃 Dirty Shoes at The Oval Tavern, Saturday 31/10/2026, a Halloween night out. Source: Inside Croydon listing
🧡 COMMUNITY WATCH
🎨 SoCro Art Fair returns on Sunday 08/11/2026. The fourth SoCro Art Fair brings more than 50 local creatives to Coombe Wood School, CR2 7HY, from 10am. Entry is free, with visitor registration online. Sources: SoCro Art, visitor registration
🤝 Know a local group doing something good? Tell us about it and we may feature it in a future issue.
📰 NEWS AND NOTES
🎓 CALAT classes are on the move. During October, most Croydon Adult Learning and Training classes are relocating from Croydon Clocktower to Stand House in Thornton Heath, with a smaller teaching presence kept in central Croydon for courses that need a central location. The council says it is contacting all affected learners with location details, and describes the move as part of a review of the service's future. Local outlets also reported on 8 October that outsourcing the service could put 197 roles at risk. If you are enrolled, watch your inbox for your class location. Source: Croydon Council
🚋 The Daily Commute: tram closure from Saturday. 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 while TfL renews the track. Works run 24 hours a day, with replacement buses in place. Use the TfL journey planner or the TfL Go app before you set off. Sources: Inside Croydon, TfL journey planner
🏪 BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: ADDISCOMBE DIY
Need a key cut, a washer for that dripping tap or just the right screw? Addiscombe DIY on Lower Addiscombe Road is the kind of proper local hardware shop that's getting harder to find. They stock everything from plumbing bits to everyday DIY essentials, and they cut keys too.
📍 187 Lower Addiscombe Road, CR0 6RA, a short walk from Addiscombe tram stop
🕗 Monday to Saturday, 8am to 6pm
📞 020 8654 2880
Pop in before you head to a big-box store. Shopping local keeps shops like this on our high streets.
Source: local business directory listings. Hours can change, so please check with the shop before you go.
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