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SPORT . . . . . Girls invited to register for RugbyEngland rugby coach visiting local club . . . . girls and boys invited to play . . . (Click here for more details)
WAITROSE ASK CUSTOMERS TO CHOOSE LOCAL GOOD CAUSES TO RECEIVE £1,000 A MONTH
Purley's nearest Waitrose Supermarket in Sanderstead has launched a 'Community Matters' scheme to support local good causes and asked customers to decide where the money is spent.
Each month the branch will donate £1,000 between three local good causes such as new goal posts for a youth club or redecorating an old people's home.
Customers can nominate good causes on forms available in the store.
At the checkout customers will receive a token and place it the box of the good cause they wish to support. The more tokens a cause gets, the bigger the donation they receive.
PURLEY BUILDERS GO INTO LIQUIDATION WITH BIG LOSSES . . . . . HAPPY VALLEY AWARD . . . . . LOCAL GOOD CAUSES GET MONTHLY WINDFALL FROM WAITROSE
Picture: The Happy Valley at Old Coulsdon has won a national Green Flag award which credits it with being one of the best parks in the country. The 101 hectare site comprises woodland, meadows and nature trails and is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
MILFORD HOMES LTD GOES INTO LIQUIDATION . . . .
Local builders Milford Homes Ltd have been taken over by liquidators and a creditors meeting to be held on September 8 is expected to reveal large losses. Milford built the flats in the Brighton Road by Purley Hospital and gave £50,000 to improve the playground facilities in the Purley Rotary field, and also included affordable housing in the development, as a 'planning gain' payment.
Already there have been redundancies at the company, but a spokesman said that current building sites in Cullesden Road, Purley, and Birdhurst Avenue, South Croydon, would be completed.
PURLEY SAFER NEIGHBOURHOOD TEAM
This month's crime update from Sgt Trevor Jenner. . . . . police on cycles, lead thefts, burglaries, vehicle crime, advice and call for volunteers (Click here for more details)
MORE PURLEY NEWS, NOTES AND BLOGS
Purley Charity Dinner . . . . . . Rotary Club looking for Work Study Group participants . . . . . Telephone Directories . . . . South East Cancer Care looking for volunteers . . . This week's blogs include: Bad Smells at Reedham; replies re parking permits for Lansdowne Road; 434 Bus Route . . . . (Click here for more details)
CLUB REPORTS
The Purley Mail was set up to improve the communication between organisations that make up the Purley community and local residents . . . . currently the Purley Mail is emailed to over 1,200 individuals who want to know what is going on in our town; so if you are a committee member of a local organisation please organise that regular reports are sent to us . . . . this week we've received reports from Probus and Warlingham Rugby Club (Click here for more details)
TESCO CANCEL THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO PURLEY CHRISTMAS LIGHTS
Pictures: Children over eight can now join yoga classes held at Purley Sports Club. For more information go to Yoga Orchid at www.purleymail.com - the Purley Community Website run by the Purley Rotary Club - or telephone 020 8660 8944
CONTRIBUTION CANCELLATION BY TESCO
Tesco have cancelled the £3,500 a year contribution they have been making towards the cost of Purley Christmas lights. The contribution commenced when Tesco first announced they were planning to enlarge the Purley store. The contribution has allowed the Purley Business Association, who pay for the lights, to improve the Christmas lighting scheme in recent years. The Purley Tesco store has a turnover of over £50-million a year and has one of the the group's highest turnover ratings for its size.
One local trader commented: This is a typical cynical move that shows Tescos real attitude towards its local community."
CALL FOR FOCUS ON RELEVANT ISSUES AT NEIGHBOURHOOD PARTNERSHIP MEETINGS
Local residents have made an approach to the Chairman of Purley & Kenley Neighbourhood Partnership suggesting that changes should be introduced to make the meetings of more interest to those attending.
The next Purley & Kenley Neighbourhood Partnership, one of the best attended in the whole of the Borough, is to be held on September 23rd (see Events section for details).
Main item on the agenda will be an outline of the long-term vision consultants appointed by the Council have for Purley.
PURLEY FOOD WASTE COLLECTION SCHEME BEATS TARGETS
The food waste collection scheme started by the Council in Purley some months ago has proved successful. Results released this week by the Council for the period to the end of March 2008, show 67.6 per cent of residents in the pilot area joined in the scheme. This is far more than the 40 per cent take-up in similar schemes around the country. Waste bosses found not only did more people took part, but they recycled more - 2.5kg per household compared to a typical 2kg of food waste each week.
Over 2,500 households were issued with containers for recycling leftover food and vegetable peelings.
In total, 207 tonnes of waste were collected - more than double Croydon Council's target of 100 tonnes.
MORE PURLEY NEWS:
Exams results up three years in a row. . . . Global Warming keeps Probus pondering . . . (Click here for more details)
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