CR5 Issue 170 July 2019

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BRADMORE GREEN & COULSDON LIBRARIES COULSDON LIBRARY FREE For Children Craftytime. Fridays 3.30-4.30pm. 4-7 year olds. Storytime. Saturdays 3-4pm. 4-7 year olds. LEGO sessions. 7-12 year olds use the fun and interactive LEGO Education programmes. Advanced booking required. Monday 1st, 15th & 29th and Tuesday 9th & 23rd. 4-5pm. FREE for Adults Talk about Croydon Council’s Live Well service for anyone looking to improve their health and well-being. Tuesday 2nd July 2-3pm. Booking required. Talk about end of life care planning and coming to terms with loss and bereavement. Carol Trower from St Christopher’s Hospice. Friday 5th July 10.30-11.30am. Booking required. Adult reading group. 2nd Thursday of the month 2-3pm. The group will discuss The Long Song by Andrea Levy. Thursday 11th July. Free one hour one-to-one IT help sessions on Saturdays. 10am-11am and 11am-12pm. Please pre-book. Coulsdon Library at 167 Brighton Road, Coulsdon, CR5 2NH, Tel 020 3700 1007; coulsdonlibrary@croydon.gov.uk Opening Hours Monday 9am-6pm, Tuesday 9am-6pm, Thursday 9.30am-6pm, Friday 9am-7pm and Saturday 9am-5pm. It’s free to join the library and nearly everything is free to borrow. Croydon Libraries are available 24/7:- We have a digital library of audio and e-books to download as well as digital magazines. https://www.croydon.gov.uk/leisure/libraries/online-library FREE Croydon Libraries’ Summer Reading Challenge (SRC) for 4-11 year olds! Read library books, answer easy questions about the books and win prizes! Saturday 13th July-Saturday 14th September. Ask at your local Croydon library for SRC opening times. BRADMORE GREEN LIBRARY FREE For Children Crafternoon. Tuesdays 3.15-4.15pm. 3-11 year olds. Storytime. Wednesdays 2.15-2.45pm. Under 5s. Rhymetime. Fridays 11-11.30am. Babies and toddlers. 7-12 year olds use the fun and interactive LEGO Education programmes, WeDo or StoryStarter. WeDo shows how to make models which can be programmed to move; creative stories can be inspired with StoryStarter. Advanced booking required. Every Monday 4-5pm. For Adults NatWest Community Banker, Clare Oldfield, will give a useful and informative Friends Against Scams talk. Monday 8th July from 10.30-11.30am. Booking required. Monthly coffee morning. 1st Saturday of the month 10-11.30am. Free one hour one-to-one IT help sessions. Please contact the library to book. There are jigsaws for loan at the library. Please ask staff for details. The library has a free car park. Bradmore Green Library, Bradmore Way, Coulsdon, CR5 1PE, Tel 020 3700 1003; bradmoregreenlibrary@croydon.gov.uk Opening Hours Monday 9.30am-6pm, Tuesday 9am-6pm, Wednesday 9am-6pm, Friday 9am-7pm and Saturday 9am-5pm. 84 Log into www.cr5.co.uk your local community website!
Local libraries under threat of closure By Chris Philp, Member of Parliament for Croydon South Croydon Council has been planning to close four of Croydon’s libraries: Bradmore Green (in Coulsdon), Purley, Sanderstead and Shirley. The decision was in a report that the council had commissioned from a group of consultants. The consultants who wrote the report singled out the four libraries as sites for ‘relocation’ and ‘releasing space’. This means closures, either permanently, or until large parts of the libraries are redeveloped for other uses. The plans have received approval at the council’s cabinet level. Further information about the report was later found in the meeting papers. This led to a request from Cllr Helen Pollard for a copy of the full report, which is how the plans to close the libraries were made public. The report specifically targets libraries in the south of the borough and Shirley. I am opposed to this. The council should not be hitting front-line services like libraries, instead it should be cutting waste. Croydon Council’s total budget accounting from all income sources, known as Core Spending Power, is actually going up – by £8.2m (or an above-inflation 3%) this year. The council should spend this extra money on protecting frontline services like libraries, not waste it by letting capital projects go hugely over-budget and by a huge over-reliance on expensive agency staff at the Town Hall. Bradmore Green library in Coulsdon has specifically been singled out for relocation. This is despite the report admitting that the current building is appropriate in size and only needs minor improvements. The report also admits that the library is the significantly easier for residents in Old Coulsdon to reach than other libraries. Shutting the current library and relocating it elsewhere after an uncertain amount of time would be a real loss for a lot of residents, especially those who find it difficult to travel further. Coulsdon library however has been highlighted for redevelopment to incorporate housing, or to be relocated if there are “significant benefits”. This puts both Coulsdon’s libraries under threat of extended closer, or even being moved out of the area entirely. I have set up a petition opposing the plans to close or move our libraries. Libraries lie at the heart of our community and are an essential resource for residents of all ages and incomes, in every part of Croydon. I hope that as many residents as possible sign the petition, so that the council has to realise how strongly we all value our libraries. You can sign my petition at https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/saveourlibraries Thank you- Chris Philp To advertise call Lucy on 01737 557888 or 07703 209292 85
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