Andy Stranack

Last week it was a real pleasure to visit the ‘Choose Love Garden’ which has been transported from its award winning site at the Chelsea Flower Show to the ‘Good Food Matters’ site at Mickleham Way, New Addington.

It was a personal highlight for me to join the Liberty Festival across Croydon town centre last weekend. The Festival shone a spotlight on the amazing talents of the Deaf, Disabled and Neurodivergent artists from across the UK.

It was a great pleasure to join in the fun, food, performance, music and parade that all came together on Sunday 31st July at the Croydon Carnival on London Road.

It has been another busy week as the Borough of Culture continues in Croydon and we showcase new investment in sports facilities across the Borough.

It was a great joy to attend a performance of ‘Why On Earth’ at the BRIT school last week.

It was a real pleasure to be part of the series of festivals that took place at Wandle Park last week. On Thursday thousands of young people from schools across the Borough took part in the CR Talent Festival hosted by the Croydon Music and Arts Service.

It was an honour and a privilege to join with Jasmine Singh, Helen Lishmund and all the amazing team of volunteers at Selsdon Contact. Having managed the charity between 2014 -2021 I know at first hand the amazing work they do to help the elderly and isolated in the Selsdon area.

The year long celebration that is marking Croydon out as the London Borough of Culture has continued over the last couple of weeks. Cllr.

Since the review of local authority boundaries in 2018 the newly created wards of Selsdon and Addington Village, and Selsdon Vale and Forestdale were represented in Parliament by two different Members of Parliament.

Cllr Andy Stranack (Cabinet Member for Communities and Culture) was busy last week as Croydon continued to shine a spotlight on the different cultures and communities that make Croydon a great place to live.