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Cross River Partnership is recruiting for a Healthy Streets Everyday Project Manager to join our team! For more information about the role and to apply please visit the application page HERE. Please contact CRP Operations Manager, Carol Quamina, with any questions regarding the role or application process.

On behalf of the whole Cross River Partnership team, we would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! 2019 has been a jam-packed year full of exciting new programme launches, celebrations of successful projects coming to an end, and welcoming fantastic new partners to the Cross River Partnership. Here are […]

CRP has been pleased to support a number of outline applications to the National Lottery’s Climate Action Fund. This is the first time that the fund has been made available, and it represents an exciting opportunity for collaborative, community-led applications of various scales to actually take action on things like carbon emissions, air quality, sustainable […]

CRP has submitted a funding application to London First’s West End Public Realm programme, to work with Westminster City Council and partners to incorporate more Green Infrastructure into residential and commercial neighbourhoods. If successful, the programme will be implemented on a flexible, fully consulted basis, aligning well with School Streets and Healthy Streets Everyday complementary […]

Cross River Partnership is extremely pleased to be working with the Centre for London, the GLA, the City of London Corporation and others on a research study into lighting in global cities. Results will be available in 2020. For further information please contact CRP Director Susannah Wilks.  

This November, CRP meet with all Healthy Streets Everyday partners to discuss their plans for 2020, whilst stimulating some creative discussions. With 11 out of 16 HSE London boroughs declaring a climate emergency, 2020 will see the development of a school streets programme across several boroughs. In preparation for this, CRP have commissioned London Borough […]

Cross River Partnership continues to develop the commissioning framework for the Talent Development strand of the South London Innovation Corridor. The framework will outline relevant employment initiatives that support disadvantaged groups into work, as well career progression for those already in work. Thanks to valuable input from the London Boroughs of Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark and […]

CRP are happy to launch a reflective summary report for the Marylebone Low Emission Neighbourhood (LEN) project, which took place between July 2016 and March 2019. The Marylebone LEN is an example of a successful partnership working to ensure air quality best practice is now part of business as usual for local stakeholders. There were […]

As part of the Clean Air Villages, Defra-funded Air Quality Grant programme and in collaboration with London Borough of Lambeth, Zipcar and Brixton BID, a fully electric van is now available for businesses in Brixton to use. CRP business engagement in Brixton led to the development of an idea involving a shared electric vehicle. London […]

Cross River Partnership is delighted to be working with Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark and Wandsworth Councils on the South London Innovation Corridor. SLIC is a partnership between the four boroughs to develop the local creative and digital industries by offering; • business support • talent development and • affordable workspace We are developing a commissioning framework […]

Sylvia Barrett, Research Manager at Centre for London, presented the Green Light report to the Central London Sub Regional Transport Partnership (CLSRTP), coordinated by CRP, at their last meeting. The report outlines a new road-user charging scheme aimed to help create a healthier, more liveable London. London has long been a forerunner in transport innovation, […]

We are honoured to have won Best Collaboration for our DEFRA-funded Clean Air Villages (CAV1) project at the CIEH Excellence Awards 2019. Held at the Marriot Hotel in Regents Park on November 14th, the awards ceremony provided us with a great opportunity to meet with other environmental health practitioners and learn about their fantastic and […]

This month we are launching CRP’s Countdown to Christmas Campaign! Beginning Monday 25th November we’ll be using social media to showcase a selection of great businesses from our Clean Air Villages supplier directory. Whether its champagne for your office party, or flowers for that special someone, these businesses are all using low or zero emission […]

According to Defra (the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs), ‘air quality is the largest environmental health risk in the UK’. With London’s roads regularly exceeding World Health Organisation guidelines for dangerous emissions, air quality needs tackling. CRP has successfully applied for funding from Defra’s Air Quality Grant in the previous three rounds, and […]

Historic England held a Conference on Lighting on 25th October 2019, to coincide with the Where Light Falls display at St. Paul’s Cathedral. It was an information-packed day of talks and discussion, with contributions from organisations including the Greater London Authority, the City of London Corporation, Speirs and Major, Signify, Central, and LUCIE. The Mayor’s […]

The National Lottery has set up The Climate Action Fund and is a potential way of building on the scale, scope and lifetime of many excellent CRP partner project community activities that are already underway. The Deadline for expressions of interest is: 18th December, 2019. If this Fund is something that you are interested in […]

Our two-and-a-half year Smart Electric Urban Logistics (SEUL) project was celebrated in style at London’s City Hall, in a joint event with the Greater London Authority on 4th November. Project partners UPS, UK Power Networks, CRP and UK Power Networks Services were invited to join Gnewt and the GLA to share initial results from both […]

Recently, the Clean Air Villages (CAV) team have been out and about in Brixton to talk to as many businesses as possible in the local area about a new shared electric van which will be available for them to use for free! Brixton has long been recognised as an air pollution hotspot, with traffic, congestion […]

The CRP team attended a chocolate making (and eating!) workshop as part of their away day earlier this month. The afternoon involved fun group activities and individual creative tasks, resulting in some delicious chocolate truffles, slabs, fudge, and cocktails. It was a great bonding session and made the team feel like real chocolatiers! If you […]

We were delighted to be part of the Freight in the City Expo this year to highlight the many projects we have, and continue to work on, that focus on logistics and freight in London. The event showcased the future mobility of HGVs being electrified as well as last mile solutions including cargo bikes in […]

On Friday 1st November, Cross River Partnership hosted a special webinar with Kristine Solgaard and Terje Elvsaas from the Olso Liveability Programme, as part of a best practise knowledge sharing event for present Healthy Streets Everyday (HSE) project partners. The Olso Liveability Programme embarked on a campaign 2 years ago with physical and psychological reach. […]

This month we launched the Clean Air Thames funding social media campaign! The project, which has received £500,000 from the Mayor of London’s Air Quality Fund, aims to reduce polluting emissions on the Tidal Thames by retrofitting 11 inland commercial freight and passenger vessels with post-exhaust treatments, in turn reducing particulate matter, nitrogen oxides and […]

CRP’s Tomos Joyce met with Wandsworth Council and community group, Tooting Healthy Streets, at Tooting Market in early October to discuss the Healthy Streets Everyday programme. Tooting Healthy Streets is made up of business owners, residents and parents who have come together to improve local community concerns that Tooting’s streets are polluted, traffic-dominated and unsafe […]

As part of Westminster City Council’s Apprenticeship Scheme, I am currently studying for a City & Guilds Level 3 Business Administrator standard qualification being delivered in partnership with Westminster Adult Education Service (WAES). During the last 16 months that I have been working with the Cross River Partnership Team I have learnt and developed many […]

Following on from our successful collaboration with UPS and UK Power Network Services as part of the Smart Electric Urban Logistics project at the UPS Camden depot, CRP have joined with partners on a ground-breaking new project proposal seeking funding from Innovate UK. This project aims to show how depot-based vehicle fleets can be managed […]

Cross River Partnership held an extremely successful and productive Lighting Consultation Event on 25th September 2019, attended by 50 delegates from London’s transport and public authorities, as well as designers, architects, engineers, artists, and attractions. The full PDF event presentation slides are here. Huge thanks to University of Westminster, Speirs and Major, the Illuminated River […]

It has been a busy two months for the Clean Air Villages project including launching the supplier directory in all 13 villages! Here are a few things happening in the areas: We started with attending the launch of the fancy new InStreatham BID cargo bike which will be for local businesses in the area to […]

CRP is currently working on a proposal to apply to the latest round of Defra’s Air Quality Grant. This collaborative grant application will bring together CRP partners, across London, from both the public and private sectors. The overall aims of the grant are to reduce congestion and pollution in Air Quality Focus Areas, through interventions […]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US! Cross River Partnership celebrated a fantastic 25 years of Delivering London’s Future Together at our anniversary event on Wednesday 9th October, #CRP25. The celebrations took place at London’s Tate Modern, with spectacular views of CRP’s flagship project, the Millennium Bridge, now with artwork installed as part of the Illuminated River project! […]

I am pleased to continue working with CRP on Clean Air Villages, a project which aims to reduce emissions in 13 hotspots of poor air quality across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Camden, Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea, Lambeth, City of Westminster, Wandsworth, and also Cadogan Estates. Since becoming a mum, I have become […]