New Director for Merton Council
Rachael Wardell will join Merton Council as their new Director of Children, Schools and Families in May 2018.
Category Archives: Features
Council call upon residents and businesses to help borough become dementia friendly
A new campaign has been launched calling upon residents and businesses help make Merton a dementia friendly borough by 2020. Dementia Friendly Merton is supported by Merton Council, Merton Clinical […]
Cashless parking arrives on Merton’s streets
Merton residents and visitors to the borough will now be able to use a cashless parking service for on-street parking for the first time from this week. Motorists no longer have to hunt for change as the new RingGo system offers an alternative way to pay and display parking that does not use coins. Merton Council introduced cashless parking to all 14 council-owned car parks last year and has now rolled out the cashless service across all 3,600 council-operated on-street parking bays.
Summer Reading Challenge Awards
A record number of children from Merton were praised for the successful completion of this year’s Summer Reading Challenge at a ceremony in Mitcham Library on Thursday 1 October 2015.
Mitcham resident wins prize for pledging to love her street
Mitcham resident Daria Piatek is the latest winner of the Love Your Street prize draw, taking home a £100 One4All voucher.
Merton resident runner-up in national reading competition
Merton resident and devoted Donald Hope Library volunteer Mohammed Faraz (21), has been awarded a Kobo e-reader for being one of three runners-up across the country in the Reading Agency’s […]
Mayor meets the Queen
Mayor of Merton, Councillor David Chung was among a number of guests to meet Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh at Barking and Dagenham’s 50th anniversary celebration on Thursday 16 July.
Classics in the Park early bird tickets available for music lovers
Merton Council is giving music lovers everywhere the chance to purchase special early bird tickets for Classics in the Park. 10% off the original price is available until midnight on 31 July.
Style Junkies say rubbish to waste
Winning entries from Merton Council’s Style Junkies competition are on display at the National Trust’s Sustainability Centre in Morden Hall Park until 26 July.
Free prize draw for VIP Classics in the Park tickets
Merton Council has just opened its free prize draw to win two VIP tickets worth £120 to its first ever Classics in the Park concert which takes place this September. […]
