Christmas market comes to Thornton Heath
The Thornton Heath Community Action Team (THCAT) are bringing Christmas to Thornton Heath later this month with local arts, crafts and food along the High Street plus an ice rink in the Garnet Road car park!
The Thornton Heath Community Action Team need to raise £2,100 to cover the full cost for the ice rink and are appealing to the local community to help. If you’d like to donate in support you can do so here:
Steve Reed MP said:
The Christmas Market is a fantastic addition to Thornton Heath and will be a wonderful occasion for the whole community to celebrate Christmas.
It’s inspiring to see a community organisation take the lead in bringing Thornton Heath together at this time of year.
Steven Reed is Labour MP for Croydon North and Shadow Minister for Children and Families. In 2018 his private member’s bill on reducing violent mental health restraint became law. In June 2019 he launched Labour’s civil society strategy outlining radical plans to empower citizens and communities.
Steve chairs the Cooperative Councils Innovation Network, co-chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group for London, was Leader of Lambeth Council 2006-12 where he led the council’s children’s services to become best-rated in the country and pioneered the public-health approach to tackling violent youth crime. He worked in publishing for 16 years and was an elected trade union branch secretary.