Sidmouth Folk Festival
If you're a folk music fan this is your opportunity to attend a week long festival held in beautiful Sidmouth, Devon in the company of COPSE members! Read all about […]
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“Now 90!” Croydon Green Spaces Challenge Walk: Upper Centre
This walk will form part of COPSE's 90th anniversary Challenge, overall visiting, appropriately enough, a total of 90 of Croydon's green spaces. On this occasion we'll focus on those in […]
An Evening at the Proms
This will feature music from Beethoven and new works from a BBC orchestra.
Ken’s Kroydon Kwiz 2
South Croydon United Church Aberdeen Road, South Croydon, United KingdomWay back in lockdown (shudder!) we Zoomed the Close To Home Quiz, complete with roundabouts, saving you all from going completely stir-crazy. Back in the Hall, we teased out even […]
Circular Walk from Blackheath (visiting Greenwich Park)
An interesting day awaits anyone who cares to meet outside the The Bookshop on the Heath, (a book shop next to Oxfam on Tranquil Vale/ Royal Parade on the edge of Blackheath this Saturday morning at 10am, (it is situated a short walk up from Blackheath railway station on the edge of the heath on […]
The Great North Wood: talk by CJ Schüler
South Croydon United Church Aberdeen Road, South Croydon, United KingdomC. J. Schüler is a freelance writer, journalist and cultural historian specialising in travel, the arts, the environment, and European fiction in translation. In this talk he will expand on a subject close to his heart and ours in COPSE: the history of the Great North Wood that once covered large areas of South London […]
Repeat North leg of ‘NOW 90!’ Croydon Green Spaces Challenge Walk
This is an opportunity to walk all or part of the “north leg” of the three walks making up the “Now 90!” Croydon Green Spaces Challenge Walk . (A repeat of the same walk first done on 14 July.) It’s getting on for 16 miles (let’s just say 14 “Barry miles”!) and takes in 31 green […]
North London to Camden Town Walk (8 miles)
Meet from 9.30am at East Croydon Station => 9.45am (approx) train to London Bridge => Northern Line tube to East Finchley => loo/coffee stop => from 11am, an eight mile "interest" urban walk (which might include some bus travelling) visiting those three London Boroughs where I've previously lived (Barnet, Haringey + Camden) before "moving down […]
“Now 90!” Croydon Green Spaces Challenge Walk: Lower Centre
This walk will form part of COPSE's 90th anniversary Challenge, overall visiting, appropriately enough, a total of 90 of Croydon's green spaces. On this occasion we'll focus on those in the Lower Central parts of the Borough. Full details of the Challenge are at the bottom of this page. You don't have to take on […]
Electile Dysfunction
South Croydon United Church Aberdeen Road, South Croydon, United KingdomJust when you thought it was all over . . . . Yes, there will be some back-focus on aspects of the recent past that we have probably felt we've moved on from. However, this Tuesday evening will involve a light-hearted, quick-fire quiz, looking at some quirky and interesting facts concerning our recent General Election […]