💜💛A huge Thank you 💜💛Over 800 people have signed our petition to save Croydon Adult Learning and Training - CALAT
Your incredible support is showing the council just how much Croydon Adult Learning and Training - CALAT means to our community.
Your voices are making waves, but the situation is heating up right now and we need to keep spreading the word!
The Croydon Council Cabinet is meeting this Wednesday, 14th October at 6:30 PM at the Town Hall on Katharine Street to vote on launching the consultation to outsource CALAT to private providers. If you can make it, please turn up and add your support . We need to show them just how important CALAT is to the local community in Croydon.
You can also watch the live webcast directly on the Croydon Council Webcasting Portal.
On the agenda for Wednesday’s meeting is the council's plan to dispose of Strand House, CALAT’s main centre in Thornton Heath.
Think about the sheer hypocrisy of their strategy:
• They have already ordered CALAT to vacate its central home at the Croydon Clocktower.
• They publicly claimed classes would be moved to Strand House.
• Now, in the exact same week, they are trying to secretly offload Strand House too!
CALAT is effectively being left homeless.
It begs the ultimate question: What private provider is going to want to take over a service with no physical home? How can anyone deliver quality adult education courses with no classrooms?
This exposes the council's true plan. They aren't trying to "transform" or "improve" CALAT—they are systematically stripping its assets, shutting down its spaces, and setting it up to fail so they can wash their hands of it entirely.
What you can do right now:
💜 Share this petition link with 3 friends, family members, or neighbours today.
💜 If you are a student or staff member, talk to your peers and make sure they know about Wednesday's meeting.
💜 Keep the pressure on. We will not let them quietly dismantle our community lifeline!
Lets get to 1000 voices!!!
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