CSF Sponsors and Partners

Sponsors

O₂

Main Stage Sponsor

Croydon Summer Festival is a fantastic community event that O2 are delighted to be involved with this year. Come and find the O2 bubble tent and get your face painted, record a video message which you can forward to your friends and family and pick up a Your Country SIM card. The SIM gives you an extra 100 free minutes of international calls to almost any country, from Poland to Pakistan, Bulgaria to Bangladesh. That’s on top of your credit, when you top up £15 a month. You can also order a Your Country SIM card online now.

freesim.o2.co.uk

The Croydon Advertiser

Official Media Sponsor

The Advertiser is proud to be backing the Croydon Summer Festival. Our newspapers – the Advertiser and the Advertiser Midweek – and our hugely popular website offer unrivalled news, entertainment and sports coverage from across the borough, reaching tens of thousands of people every week.

www.thisiscroydontoday.co.uk

Jurys Inn

Official Accommodation Sponsor

Jurys Inn Croydon is a perfect location for both business and leisure guests. The hotel is in the heart of Croydon with 240 bedrooms and 14 conference rooms. Our spacious and comfortable bedrooms are all en-suite and can accommodate three adults, two adults and two children, or just one person in complete comfort.

For reservations please call 020 8448 6000 or visit our website: www.jurysinns.com

ARCC

The Asian Resource Centre of Croydon (ARCC) is a registered charity established in 1999 to work with the Asian Community in the borough of Croydon. The aim of the organisation is to serve the needs of Asian communities regardless of religious/linguistic or cultural differences.

ARCC has had a long standing association with the Croydon Mela. ARCC is a long standing member of the Mela Steering Group and sponsor of the Classical Stage, one of the highlights of the event.

020 8684 3784
Email: info@arccltd.com
www.arccltd.com

Croydon BID

Croydon Town Centre Business Improvement District (BID) is a business-led initiative for Central Croydon. Businesses have been brought together to decide how to improve the environment for their employees, customers and clients. Six key themes form the main objectives of the BID company:

Create a safer and more secure area
Improve the perception and image of Croydon Town Centre
Make Croydon Town Centre cleaner and create a more attractive environment
Improve the accessibility to and within the area
Act as a facilitator and collective voice for the businesses
Deliver a series of festivals and events to enhance cultural pride in the Town Centre

Email: info@croydonbid.com
www.croydontowncentre.com

Cadbury

Cadbury, the official treat provider to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games launches Spots v Stripes – the biggest, longest, most inclusive game ever, for anyone and everyone across the UK to play.

Remember a time when all you did was PLAY GAMES? British Bulldog, Keepy Uppy, Hop Scotch, Marbles, Hide & Seek…When the only structure to your day was LUNCHTIME AND TEATIME? And games only stopped when your mum called you in for your tea, or it was too dark? Spots v Stripes will take you back to that time.

Spots v Stripes is a game that ANYBODY can play, at ANY TIME, with ANYONE, and it’s coming to Croydon Summer Festival!

British Heart Foundation

The British Heart Foundation (BHF) is very happy to be present at the Croydon Summer Festival. We’re here to help people make changes to their lifestyle that can reduce risk of heart disease and improve their heart health.

Pop into our BHF tent, where you can swap a fizzy drink for a free bottle of water, win an iPod shuffle and get advice on keeping your heart healthy. Kids, you can get your face painted, meet our friendly Artie Beat mascot, join his Artie Beat Club, take our fun Physical Activity Challenge and win some cool prizes.

You can also find out more about how to keep your heart healthy or support our life-saving work at bhf.org.uk.

Partners

The Green Dragon

Made in Croydon Great local pub with friendly atmosphere, live music, real ale, food deals and function room.

Features include quiz night, jive dancing, extensive live music programme and Pool tables.

60 High Street, Croydon, Surrey, CR0 1NA
0208 667 0684
www.myspace.com/greendragonpub

Continental Landscapes

Continental Landscapes Ltd offers a range of services that includes every aspect of landscape construction and maintenance. We have an impressive client portfolio containing local authorities, government agencies, industrial and commercial enterprises as well as the private sector.

www.continental-landscapes.co.uk

Global Local

Global Local is an Arts Council funded project that hunts down and provides a platform for the most cutting edge, up and coming acts from a whole host of genres. Whether Roma or a Rumba, these artists are remixing their culture with the myriad of 21st Century styles that exist in the UK today. The fresh new sound of contemporary UK/World music will be appearing at over 22 stages in this its fifth year.

www.globallocal.co.uk

Club Soda

Made in Croydon Club Soda events are produced and run by people with learning disabilities. Our aim is always to create high quality arts events that include everyone! We are based at Croydon Clocktower where we produce events throughout the year, featuring live music, theatre, film and much more.

www.clubsoda.org.uk

London Tramlink

London Tramlink is a key transport link in south London, with three lines covering 28km of track from Wimbledon, Beckenham Junction and New Addington. This year Tramlink celebrates 10 years of operation, with passenger numbers growing to 27 million a year.

Trams and tram stops were refreshed and major track replacement works have been undertaken since Transport for London took over Tramlink in 2008, putting the system in good shape for the future.

Transport for London’s London Overground has recently arrived to West Croydon, with trains running every 15 minutes to Dalston Junction. These new, four-carriage, air-conditioned trains provide an important connection to north and east London, with trains calling at Canada Water, Whitechapel and Shoreditch High Street.

Untapped (Uk) CIC

LIFE IN LONDON Family Learning Photography Project at the Festival

Made in Croydon Untapped are a social enterprise working with lone parents, families with additional needs, fathers, grandparents and families with English as an additional language. The whole project is aimed at building confidence in IT and digital photography using family history as a starting point, in order to create visual family trees and a DVD with storytelling/percussion soundtrack. We will be using the festival to document the various events, enabling participants to show us what they are enjoying about the festival and the opportunity to experience the festival through a lens. The work is due to be shown at an exhibition at Croydon Clocktower 2 - 10 August and will be a visual family tree, which may be 3D.

Untapped (Uk) CIC also provide photographers to voluntary and third sector organisations. We train volunteers who want to work in the various creative industries.

If you would like to take part please contact Sue Ackon at info@untapped.org.uk

www.untapped.org.uk