Petition: fair funding for Croydon’s community groups

Croydon’s Conservative Mayor has axed funding for Croydon’s charities and community groups. Many local groups have been forced to reduce their activities and some may even face closure.

Steve Reed MP said:

Our local charities and community groups support thousands of people each year. They clean up litter, support mums and children, and care for the elderly. The Conservatives are wrong to target them with massive cuts.

Please support my petition to tell the Mayor to fund our community groups fairly.

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Steven Reed is Labour MP for Croydon North and Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. 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.