The Shirley North Safer Neighbourhood Team has an update with the latest crime report for Shirley North.
The Safer Neighbourhood Team will continue to patrol the ward as usual. In case of an emergency, please do not hesitate to call 999.
Let’s try and be vigilant and lookout for each other.
Report crime by calling 101 or in an emergency call 999.
Remember, you can also report crime online on our website: https://www.met.police.uk/
Despite continued Council misfortunes and threats to green spaces and Bowling in Croydon, the Club at Shirley Church Recreation Ground is planning for a new season and the future.
Two new Trophies will be fully adopted this year. The Blount Cup has been acquired to celebrate the many years of service of Sylvia and Dennis Blount, and to mark the Amalgamation of Shirley Ladies and Spring Park Bowling Clubs in 2019. The format for competition is not yet fixed and at some events during the year we hope to introduce novel ways of playing including Australian rules.
There is also a new Trophy for the Pyramid Competition which will now be open to all members, with new bowlers and low handicap players getting preference in the starting positions. It can be played for late in the afternoons, in the evenings and at weekends. Coaching sessions may also return to the evenings.
Plans for 2022 include a welcome return of our Away Days to Eastbourne, Canterbury and Herne Bay and special events during the Queen’s Jubilee and the Commonwealth Games.
During the Covid years new members were often the backbone and stars of our teams which is a testament to our coaches and to the quality of our tea and cakes, which will be rolled out for anyone who wishes to drop in to TRY BOWLS.
Everyone can play and is welcome to come in at any time we are open during the summer!
We will have a special welcome on our Open Days –the first Sunday of each month starting on May 1st—no equipment needed, only flat shoes to protect the lawn.
We are situated in a corner of Shirley Church Recreation Ground, at the corner of Shirley Church Road/Spring Park Road, with our car park at the end of Spring Park Avenue.
Keep an eye on our website at Spring Park Shirley Bowling Club and our facebook page for more details.
To find out the latest news on what is being planned in your local area, check out our latest Planning Report with up-to-date information on Planning Applications including developments in:
With the all the latest information on the London Plan Supplementary Planning Guidance Consultation, all of our submissions to the Draft Revised Croydon Local Plan Review and the New National Planning Policy Framework Design Codes.
Chartered Trading Standards Institute Scams Information: https://www.tradingstandards.uk/news-policy/news-room/2022/scammers-continue-to-impersonate-trading-standards-to-defraud-public
Action Fraud: https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/
West Wickham & Shirley Baptist Church are collecting first aid items for those in Ukraine. We are joining our Ukrainian Chef, who has links in her home town of Lviv. The items we are collecting are:
Please check dates on these items.
We will be collecting these items on an ongoing basis, until necessary.
These items must be delivered to:
West Wickham and Shirley Baptist Church,
Wickham Road,
Croydon.
CR0 8EH
Thank you so much in advance.
An appeal is being launched by the UK’s Disasters Emergency Committee to help the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians fleeing the conflict.
Fifteen UK aid agencies – including the British Red Cross, Oxfam and Save the Children – are joining together to ask the public to donate.
Homes in Ukraine have been destroyed and water supplies, hospitals and schools have been hit, the DEC says.
The charities say people urgently need food, water, shelter and medical care.
The appeal will help people who have fled Ukraine, but also those who have been displaced to other parts of the country.
DEC members and local aid agencies working with them say they are operating in Ukraine and in the neighbouring countries of Poland, Romania, Hungary, Moldova and Slovakia.
They are using donations to provide trauma care along with medical treatment, food, water and shelter.
All public donations will be doubled by the UK government, up to a total of £20m.
You can donate to the DEC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal here.
