Category: TaxPayers’ Alliance

Croydon leading the list of local boroughs with executives paid over £100K, according to report.

The TaxPayers’ Alliance have issued their 2021 Town Hall Rich List of council employees in the UK in receipt of over £100,000 in total remuneration.  The list covers the financial year 2019-20, and since then we have seen Croydon Council issue a Section 114 notice, declaring de facto bankruptcy.  It’s not hard to see why the council ended up in this position when despite years of complaining about a lack of funding, and years of maximum council tax increases, Croydon Council still had 19 people earning over £100,000 a year, with six people whose remuneration exceeded the salary of the Prime Minister.

To put this in context, neighbouring Bromley had just 9 staff whose remuneration exceeded £100,000.  Sutton had 10 staff, Merton 9, Tandridge 2, and Reigate & Banstead 6.  Whilst our inner London neighbours Lambeth had 18 and Lewisham 15 (both fewer than Croydon), Barnet a similar sized borough made do with just 9 staff on over £100K.

Private sector organisations often benchmark salaries against other similar organisations.  Indeed, within the council, schools are required to benchmark themselves on a range of financial measures against others similar schools.  We wonder if it has ever benchmarked their own executive salaries, and if it has, what conclusions they drew?  We can see why Croydon Council’s external auditors Grant Thornton described the situation at the council as follows:  “There has been collective corporate blindness to both the seriousness of the financial position and the urgency with which actions needed to be taken”.

The current council leader, and others in the cabinet were in the cabinet at the time these bumper salaries were being paid out.  What were they doing to control council expenses?  Of course we now know those councillors were in receipt of the highest average allowance in London.

Many things have changed at Croydon Council but the latest figures still show 16 people being paid over £100,000 and two on more than the nation’s Prime Minister.  Deep cuts are being made to front line jobs and services, can we say that is being reflected in the salaries of those at the top?

As council tax bills are landing in people homes, the people of Croydon who will pay for the mismanagement of the council budget have the right to ask, why we are being expected to once again pay more, when the those at the top of the council seem to be so well rewarded.

Croydon Council Pay over £100,000, 2019-20:

Council	Name	Job title	Salary	Sub total	Pension	Total
Croydon	Jo Negrini	Chief executive	£189,165	£189,165	£29,193	£218,358
Croydon	Guy Van Dichele	Executive director (interim) of health, wellbeing & adults	£197,171	£197,171	£11,983	£209,154
Croydon	Shifa Mustafa	Executive director, place	£156,060	£156,060	£24,085	£180,145
Croydon	Jacqueline Harris-Baker	Executive director of resources and monitoring officer	£153,936	£153,936	£23,795	£177,731
Croydon	Robert Henderson	Executive director of children, families & education	£148,886	£148,886	£22,986	£171,872
Croydon	Hazel Simmonds	Executive director of gateway, strategy & engagement	£137,700	£137,700	£21,252	£158,952
Croydon		Undisclosed		£157,500		£157,500
Croydon	Lisa Taylor	Director of finance, investment and risk and interim S151 officer	£124,393	£124,393	£19,216	£143,609
Croydon		Undisclosed		£137,500		£137,500
Croydon		Undisclosed		£137,500		£137,500
Croydon		Undisclosed		£137,500		£137,500
Croydon		Undisclosed		£132,500		£132,500
Croydon		Undisclosed		£117,500		£117,500
Croydon		Undisclosed		£117,500		£117,500
Croydon		Undisclosed		£117,500		£117,500
Croydon		Undisclosed		£117,500		£117,500
Croydon		Undisclosed		£117,500		£117,500
Croydon		Undisclosed		£102,500		£102,500
Croydon		Undisclosed		£102,500		£102,500

Full Report: https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/taxpayersalliance/pages/17258/attachments/original/1617382775/Town_Hall_Rich_List_2021_Doc.pdf?1617382775

Council-by-council breakdown of data: https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/taxpayersalliance/pages/17258/attachments/original/1617382651/Town_Hall_Rich_List_2021_Dataset.xlsx?1617382651

As Croydon goes bankrupt you don’t need to worry about its councillors going short.

The TaxPayers’ Alliance have published a review of local authority councillor allowances – Councillors’ allowances 2020 – TaxPayers’ Alliance.  The report shows people who live just miles apart from each other may be represented by councillors who have similar workloads but are entitled to vastly different allowances.  This is true for the residents of Croydon.

In 2018-19 Croydon’s Councillors received a relatively modest basic allowance £11,407 for these ‘unpaid’ roles, although it should be noted this is the second highest rate in London.  What’s more alarming is when you average the total cost it comes to £21,784 per councillor.  Croydon councillors were the 11^th most expensive of 398 councils across the country and the highest costing in London.

In the same time period neighbouring Sutton (£12,135) and Bromley (£12,111) were both much cheaper coming in 168^th and 169^th in average cost per councillor.  Croydon’s comparatively lavish allowances were being paid whilst the council’s external auditors Grant Thornton were, as recently reported, warning about low reserves and poor financial controls.  You have to wonder how they could justify these allowances whilst asking taxpayers for ever increasing amounts of money.

Since then the council has issued a Section 114 notice and gone into de facto bankruptcy.  After cutting services and making over 400 job cuts Croydon’s councillors have finally shared some of the burden.  On the 16^th December Croydon’s councillors voted to reduce £300,000 from councillor pay from April 2021.  Whilst this is a welcome reduction it will still likely leave Croydon’s councillors in the top 20% best rewarded in the country and top 6 highest rewarded in London.  We ask, does this really reflect the damage Croydon Council’s poor administration has wrought on services in the borough?  Do the people of Croydon think their councillors who oversaw only the second council bankruptcy this century, deserve to be the in the top fifth for reward?

Drastic financial restructuring is needed at Croydon Council.  Services will be cut, regressive council taxes will increase, and likely more employees will lose their roles.  We commend Croydon’s Councillors for cutting £300,000 from their allowances, but this must only be a start.  Along with dramatic cuts for the citizens and staff, councillors should step up to the plate and aim to come in no higher than the average cost per councillor in London, still high for a bankrupt council but a reasonable sacrifice.

We ask Councillors Hamida Ali, and Jason Perry to work on further reducing allowances in Croydon.  Until then whatever else you worry about, as Croydon goes bankrupt, you don’t need to worry about its councillors going short.

“The staggering amount Croydon councillors were paid in allowances last year” – Story in MyLondon https://www.mylondon.news/news/staggering-amount-croydon-councillors-were-19497661

Croydon Council issued a Section 114 notice on Wednesday (11 Nov) afternoon “due to the severe ongoing financial challenges facing the authority.”

News of this is being widely reported including by the BBC – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-54897296

“The Section 114 notice bans all new expenditure at Croydon Council, with the exception of statutory services for protecting vulnerable people”

“£17.7m of the £27.9m of the “new savings” presented to Croydon’s cabinet on 21 September and the full council meeting on 28 September were “incorrectly identified as new savings”

“Croydon’s financial pressures are not all related to the pandemic”. It is under a government review amid claims of “irresponsible spending”

Whilst we have been by no means alone.  In the 2 and a half years the Croydon Constitutionals have been running we have regularly reported on what we have seen as irresponsible spending by the council. 

These concerns have been validated by the recent audit report:

• “There has been collective corporate blindness to both the seriousness of the financial position and the urgency with which actions needed to be taken”
• http://croydonconstitutionalists.uk/why-did-they-not-find-out/

Mike wrote a summary of the problems for the TaxPayers’ Alliance:

• Croydon Council – a tale of mismanagement https://www.taxpayersalliance.com/croydon_council_a_tale_of_mismanagement

All of this spending didn’t improve services for the people of Croydon:

• Failing in payments made for Covid – “Croydon Council has found itself in the bottom 10% of payments made by number and by amount” http://croydonconstitutionalists.uk/taken-for-grant-aid/
• Investing in Surrey Street Market for worse results – “In the period 2016-2018, permanent traders fell 21% to 23, and causal traders fell 24% to 19. That’s £91,666 of council taxpayers’ money spent per trader lost” https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20190509001746/https://thecroydoncitizen.com/economics-business/can-surrey-street-survive-help-council/

With the TaxPayers’ Alliance and some cross party support we’ve highlighted the high rates of executive pay at the council:

• April 2020 – “In Croydon the report shows we have 23 people who earned over £100,000 last year and 3 who earned more than the Prime Minister…. The London Borough of Barnet, which is about the same size as Croydon makes do with just 7 staff on over £100K” http://croydonconstitutionalists.uk/pitch-for-as-much-as-they-think-they-can-get-away-with-and-then-think-what-to-spend-it-on-highlights-from-croydon-council/
• Our campaign for sensible Town Hall salaries – http://croydonconstitutionalists.uk/support-our-campaign-for-sensible-town-hall-salaries-tpa-in-selsdon/ with support from representatives of The Foundation Party, The Christian Parties Alliance, The Libertarian Party UK, and the Brexit Party http://croydonconstitutionalists.uk/executive-pay-at-croydon-council/
• TPA Town Hall Rich List Roadshows http://croydonconstitutionalists.uk/the-taxpayers-alliance-town-hall-rich-list-roadshow-croydon/

Poor commercial property investments have caught up with the council. Rather as we expected them to:

• Croydon Council – Just do your job right http://croydonconstitutionalists.uk/just-do-your-job-right/

We didn’t think Croydon Council got value for money for residents:

• “In 2017, payments over £500 from the Cultural Growth Fund totaled £465,733.46 – almost twice the total spent on providing this basic-but-critical service repairing our roads” https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20190508195443/https://thecroydoncitizen.com/politics-society/taxing-conversations-croydon/
• “They spent £200,000 on fixing potholes but £1.1 million on the Surrey Street Market. For five years we could have doubled the pothole spend” https://www.croydonadvertiser.co.uk/news/croydon-news/spend-croydons-money-fixing-potholes-1910633
• “The £5,000 spent at the Oval Tavern was an expensive round” http://croydonconstitutionalists.uk/croydons-cultural-growth-fund-and-community-ward-budgets/
• “Tony Newman and other leading members of the council often complain about the funding that the council receives, the need to protect services, and austerity – as they have done here, here, here and here. However, the case for a lack of funding is somewhat undermined when you can find £160,000 for Boxpark” https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20190508195548/https:/thecroydoncitizen.com/politics-society/price-taking-pride/

We have asked them to tax us less and even found ways to save money:

• “we call on Councillor Tony Newman and Croydon Council to spread some joy in 2019 and make a New Year’s resolution to start looking after Taxpayers money” http://croydonconstitutionalists.uk/press-release-a-less-taxing-resolution/
• “Our proposals would bring down the increased tax take by 10% to a 2.69% increase in council tax. This would give more money back to stretched family budgets and remove the impression of a council treating taxpayers like fools” http://croydonconstitutionalists.uk/press-release-as-much-as-they-think-they-can-get-away-with/

Don’t just take our word for it we’ve also interviewed Councillor Robert Ward, Councillor Jeet Bains who also spoke with us about planning in Croydon, Councillor Mario Creatura, Chris Philp MP, former Chairman of the Croydon Conservative Federation Alasdair Stewart and council candidate Jayde Edwards.

Things can change in Croydon and Mike spoke about the campaign for a Democratically Elected Mayor of Croydon at one of our events.

For more of our articles and podcasts on the council go to http://croydonconstitutionalists.uk/category/croydon-council/

The decade after the financial crisis has seen many front line public sector and most private sector employees receive below inflation pay rises, with many suffering years of stagnant earnings.

Not so for those at the top of City Hall, delivering value for money from the public purse is of no barrier for their earnings.  The TaxPayers’ Alliance have published their City Hall Rich List 2020 which reveals:

• 654 people employed by the GLA and its subsidiary bodies in 2018-19 received more than £100,000.  154 received over £150,000.
• Transport for London alone has 518 employees on over £100,000.  With 114 on more than £150,000.
• 28 employees received remuneration in excess of a quarter of a million pounds in 2018-19.

Taxpayers have to fund this on top of all the other costly burdens of living in London., with the Mayor having increased the band D council tax precept by just under nine per cent in 2019-20.

London taxpayers are paying Limousine prices for what all too often turns out to be a Reliant Robin service from City Hall.  This is on top of the burden from London’s Borough Councils.  Croydon Council employs more than 23 staff on over £100,000 a year.  Hardworking Taxpayers need a fair deal that protects them as well as rewards staff.

We know the economy has taken a serve hit from Covid 19 and the lockdown.  We ask that City Hall and its subsidiary bodies share the burden with those who pay their wages.  We think it’s reasonable to ask that no new employee in the Metropolitan Police, Greater London Authority, London Fire Brigade or the Mayoral team, be paid more than the Prime Minister.  Those in post were employed in good faith and must retain their salaries, but surely it is not unreasonable in these troubled economic times to say a Deputy commissioner in the London Fire Brigade or a Transformation director in TFL does not need to be paid more than the person running Britain!

We calculate that if this were already the case, just capping the salaries of the top 20 highest paid staff in TFL would save over £3.9 million a year.  A good start to helping council tax payers.

TaxPayers’ Alliance full report – https://www.taxpayersalliance.com/city_hall_rich_list_2020

Coverage in South London Press – https://pages.pagesuite.com/5/b/5be8a065-97de-4289-ae5e-fa5db3d8aed6/page.pdf

Article main image: Daring Donna

The TaxPayers’ Alliance’s annual Town Hall Rich List has been released. You can read it in full here.  This shows council employees who received total remuneration in excess of £100,000. The latest is 226 more people than in 2017-18, and the highest number since 2013-14.

Councils talk of austerity and keep ramping up council tax rises.  In Croydon the report shows we have 23 people who earned over £100,000 last year and 3 who earned more than the Prime Minister.  This is up from the 19 people who earned over £100K the previous year.  The London Borough of Barnet, which is about the same size as Croydon makes do with just 7 staff on over £100K and only 1 earning more than the Prime Minister.  Neighbouring us, Sutton has just 11, Merton 9, Lambeth 16, Bromley 20, Tandridge 1, and Reigate and Banstead 4, on more than £100K.  All below Croydon.  Details of those employees earning over £100K are below.

Name	Job title	Salary	Compensation for loss of office	Sub total	Pension	Total
Jo Negrini	Chief Executive	£188,700		£188,700	£28,494	£217,194
Guy Van Dichele	Executive Director (Interim) of Health, Wellbeing & Adults	£215,444		£215,444	£    –	£215,444
	Undisclosed	£202,500		£202,500		£202,500
Shifa Mustafa	Executive Director, Place	£153,000		£153,000	£23,103	£176,103
Richard Simpson	Executive Director of Resources and Section 151 officer	£143,892		£143,892	£21,550	£165,442
	Undisclosed	£152,500		£152,500		£152,500
Eleni Loannides	Executive Director (Interim) Children, Families and Education	£150,000		£150,000	£    –	£150,000
	Undisclosed	£142,500		£142,500		£142,500
Jacqueline Harris-Baker	Director of Law and Monitoring Officer/Executive Director of Resources and Monitoring Officer	£120,080		£120,080	£18,132	£138,212
	Undisclosed	£127,500		£127,500		£127,500
Barbara Peacock	Executive Director, People	£ 67,837	£   53,808	£121,645	£4,228	£125,873
	Undisclosed	£122,500		£122,500		£122,500
	Undisclosed	£122,500		£122,500		£122,500
	Undisclosed	£117,500		£117,500		£117,500
	Undisclosed	£107,500		£107,500		£107,500
	Undisclosed	£107,500		£107,500		£107,500
	Undisclosed	£107,500		£107,500		£107,500
	Undisclosed	£107,500		£107,500		£107,500
	Undisclosed	£107,500		£107,500		£107,500
	Undisclosed	£102,500		£102,500		£102,500
	Undisclosed	£102,500		£102,500		£102,500
	Undisclosed	£102,500		£102,500		£102,500
	Undisclosed	£102,500		£102,500		£102,500

If the council isn’t splashing the cash on high paid executives they are spending it on cultural events and local community groups.  Many of these are good causes some less so.  The council publishes their spending over £500.  We’ve reviewed the spend in 2019 and found some particular lowlights like the £105,666 spent on Consultancy Fees for a cost called ‘Brick by Brick Overheads and Admin’.  It total £333,364 was dished out by local councillors in 2019 in amounts over £500 as part of their Community Ward Budgets.  Much of this goes to local residents’ associations and clubs, many very worthy, but are these the core services we pay our Council Tax for? 

We don’t think you should pay for our weekends, or for that matter we should pay for yours.  We like Croydon’s Pride event, Mike of this parish has attended all of them.  He would like to thank you for subsidising his day out, but would rather you hadn’t been forced to.  In 2019 a total of £59,360 was paid out to Croydon Pride between Community Ward Budgets and the Culture Growth Fund, a huge amount of money for this 1 day event!  The Culture Growth Fund payments over £500 totalled  £754,669 of which, £160,000 went to pay for the expensively priced Boxpark, and Dance Umbrella (no we hadn’t heard of them either) received £29,000 of your taxes.  Croydon with Talent Ltd received £20,000 and once again The Oval Tavern received £5,000 for we assume a very expensive round.  Details below.

CULTURE GROWTH FUND

Vendor Name	Amount
Boxpark	£160,000
Think Events (London) Ltd	£63,000
Croydon Pride Ltd	£54,000
A Fairweather – Fairweather Productions	£33,000
Dance Umbrella	£29,000
BH Live	£26,832
Cellar Door Promotions Ltd	£24,550
Redacted	£23,075
Croydon with Talent Ltd	£20,000
London & Partners Ventures Ltd	£20,000
Scanners Inc	£20,000
Gowling WLG (UK) LLP	£19,044
Sam-Culture Ltd	£18,750
The Brit School	£17,500
Turf Projects_	£16,768
Redacted	£14,235
Beeja	£10,000
Sound Diplomacy Limited	£10,000
31 Percent Wool/Croydonist	£8,000
CROYDONITES FESTIVAL OF NEW THEATRE	£7,500
Syrus Consultancy CIC	£7,500
Good Wolf People Ltd	£7,500
Croydon Voluntary Action	£7,500
New Addington Peoples Carnival_	£7,500
Drunken Chorus Arts Collective	£7,500
London Mozart Players	£7,500
Kinetika Bloco Ltd	£7,200
White Hut Studios	£7,000
Slide Dance	£6,450
Play for Progress	£5,830
WSP UK Ltd	£5,500
Rap Club Productions C.I.C.	£5,445
Alasdair Brown	£5,018
The Oval Tavern	£5,000
Emergency Exit Arts	£5,000
Gifted Enterprise C.I.C	£5,000
Gye Nyame Development Foundation	£5,000
Crystal Palace Festival Group	£4,684
Open City Architecture	£4,400
Artist Studio Company	£4,063
Zoo Co Outreach	£4,000
South Norwood Community Festival	£3,750
Drum the Bass	£3,750
Matthews Yard Croydon Ltd	£3,580
Advice Support Knowledge Information	£3,500
Cellar Door Promotions Ltd	£2,800
Crisis UK	£2,582
Subrang Arts	£2,500
Tour Design Limited	£1,500
FMM Pop Up	£1,450
Made in Croydon	£1,293
Reaching Higher	£1,243
Fergus Ford Photography	£1,100
Croydon Town Centre Bid	£1,000
Well Versed Ink CIC	£1,000
FMM Pop Up	£870
Conditions Studio Programme	£828
Turf Projects	£780
Amplified Theatre	£750
Red Quadrant	£550
Total	£754,669

COMMUNITY WARD BUDGETS

Vendor Name	Amount
The Chartwell Cancer Trust Ltd	£30,192
REDACTED	£18,114
LOVE NORBURY	£12,297
Purley Youth Project	£7,000
Stanley People’s Initiative	£6,736
CROYDON BME FORUM (CWB)	£6,000
SOUTH NORWOOD COMMUNITY FESTIVAL GROUP	£5,500
Sanderstead Residents Association	£5,308
SECHC	£5,119
We Love SE25 – The South Norwood Town Team	£5,000
White Hut Studios (CWB)	£5,000
Howard Primary School	£4,941
Pinewood Scout Centre	£4,894
SCOTS ESTATE NORBURY RESIDENT	£4,500
Solid Rock Academy	£4,500
CACFO UK (CWB)	£4,000
White Hut Studios	£4,000
Reaching Higher	£4,000
Thornton Heath Business Partnership	£4,000
Croydon Commitment	£4,000
St John the Divine PCC	£3,973
Addiscombe and Shirley Park Residents Association (ASPRA)	£3,500
London Mozart Players	£3,500
St. Dominic’s Church (CWB)	£3,333
Westcotec Ltd	£3,280
Westcotec Ltd	£3,280
Croydon Bme Forum	£3,050
The Upper Norwood Library Trust	£3,000
All Saints Kenley	£3,000
Greenvale Primary School	£2,802
CBNWA (CWB)	£2,750
KENLEY MEMORIAL HALL (CWB)	£2,600
People for Portland Road	£2,600
Willow Learning for Life Ltd Community Interest Company	£2,500
Thornton Heath Community Action Team	£2,500
CLOCFG	£2,500
DCC of St Edmunds Sanderstead	£2,500
South Croydon Business Association	£2,500
Elite Development FC	£2,500
CROYDON VOLUNTARY ACTION (CWB)	£2,500
CROYDON SUPPLEMENTARY EDUCATION PROJECT (CWB)	£2,500
YuleFest (CWB)	£2,467
Bangladeshi British Society Croydon	£2,400
Good Wolf People (CWB)	£2,400
Croydon Pride (CWB)	£2,320
The Shrublands Trust (CWB)	£2,300
LONGHEATH GARDENS, LONG LANE & MILFORD GARDENS RESIDENTS’ ASSOCIATION (CWB)	£2,225
LLMRA	£2,149
PURLEY BURY TENNIS CLUB (CWB)	£2,000
Riddlesdown Tennis Club	£2,000
Brighton Road Baptist Church	£2,000
Croydon Community Against Trafficking	£2,000
Bromley & Croydon Women’s Aid	£2,000
CROHAM HURST GOOD NEIGHBOURS	£2,000
Ciro Donadio (CWB)	£2,000
Thornton Heath Business Partnership (CWB)	£2,000
Rotary Club of Purley_	£2,000
Croydon District Scout Council	£2,000
Selsdon Residents Association (CWB)	£2,000
Redacted	£1,875
St George’s Shirley PCC (CWB)	£1,867
THE FRIENDS OF ASHBURTON PARK	£1,861
The Shrublands Trust	£1,760
285 (Coulsdon & Purley) Sqdn ATC	£1,757
Africans Unite Against Child Abuse (Afruca)	£1,750
Woodcote High School	£1,683
West Croydon Methodist Church	£1,555
Community Family Worker	£1,500
GUIDING HANDS ORGANISATION CIC	£1,500
GBS RE CROYDON HLTH SRVS NHST (CWB)	£1,500
Forestdale Primary School	£1,500
GAGE CIC (CWB)	£1,500
Park Run	£1,500
St George’s Shirley PCC	£1,500
Croydon Indians Group Ltd	£1,500
Gye Nyame Development Foundation	£1,482
East Croydon Community Organisation	£1,480
THE FESTIVE LIGHTING COMPANY(CWB)	£1,463
Friends of South Norwood Country Park (CWB)	£1,333
Stanley People?s Initiative (CWB)	£1,333
Crystal Palace F C Foundation (CWB)	£1,267
Friends of Norbury Park	£1,216
Community Garden Thornton Heath	£1,200
J J Martin (Catering Appliance Superstore) Ltd	£1,180
SELSON VILLAGE CLUB (CWB)	£1,158
Rising Stars Support CIC	£ 1,083
PLAY PLACE INNOV8 CIC (CWB)	£1,020
Crystal Palace & Norwood Chamber Commerce	£1,000
Nightwatch	£1,000
Friends of Lloyd Park Croydon	£1,000
Fairchildes Academy Community Trust t/a Fairchildes Primary School	£1,000
Surrey Beekeepers Association	£1,000
Friends of Stambourne Woods	£1,000
Citizen Welfare Organisation Ltd	£1,000
All Heads Recognized Ltd	£1,000
White Hut Studios  (CWB)	£1,000
SOUTH NORWOOD AND WOODSIDE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION	£1,000
Another Night of Sisterhood CIC	£1,000
St Gertrude’s Church	£1,000
CROYDON BOROUGH NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH ASSOCIATION	£1,000
Whyteleafe F C	£1,000
Croydon Food Bank	£1,000
Croydon Pet Hospital	£1,000
Friends of Littleheath Woods	£1,000
CROYDON DISTRICT SCOUT COUNCIL (CWB)	£1,000
Kenley Memorial Hall	£1,000
7th Purley Scout Group	£1,000
Rotary Club of Purley	£1,000
Evolve Housing & Support	£1,000
Palace for Life Foundation (CWB)	£1,000
OLD COULSDON CENTRE FOR THE RETIRED	£950
Festivelighting	£950
Black Stock Target Communications (CWB)	£900
Norbury Green Residents’ Association (CWB)	£900
CHRISTIAN FAMILY CONCERN (CWB)	£836
St Aidan’s Catholic Primary School	£800
Grangewood Bowling Club	£750
Foundation 47 (CWB)	£750
New Addington Pathfinders (CWB)	£750
New Addington Christmas Lights Appeal	£700
ELMWOOD JUNIOR SCHOOL (CWB)	£700
Croydon Voluntary Association for the Blind (CWB)	£650
African Youth Development Association (CWB)	£605
Croydon Hearing Resource	£600
Well Being You Ltd	£595
Friends of Littleheath Woods (CWB)	£575
Mind In Croydon	£575
LONDON MOZART PLAYERS (CWB)	£550
2nd Selsdon & Addington Scout Group	£531
Thornton Heath Community Action Team	£500
SOLIDROCK ACADEMY (CWB)	£500
The Children and young People’s Gardening Project (CWB)	£500
Imagine Independence (CWB)	£500
Winterbourne Nursery & Infant School (CWB)	£500
Circle of parents 2 friends (CWB)	£500
Another Night of Sisterhood CIC (CWB)	£500
Thornton Heath Community Action Team (CWB)	£500
Pollards Hill Residents Association (CWB)	£500
The Friends of Park Hill Park (CWB)	£500
CAGE CIC (CWB)	£500
Croydon Borough Neighbourhood Watch Association (CWB)	£500
44th Croydon Air Scout Group	£500
Croydon Cricket Club of India	£500
Waddington Way Residents Association	£500
Friends of Grangewood Park	£500
St Peters Parochid Church Council	£500
WE-STAP	£500
Active Living Support CIC	£500
Pinspired Ltd (CWB)	£500
Friends of Bradmore Green	£500
KAREN JEWITT (CWB)	£500
Public Spaces	£347
Total	£333,364

If you want to know more about the national picture, listen to Harry Fone the Grassroots Campaign Manager of TPA on with Mike Graham on Talk Radio.