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Michaella Jackson, Recruit London’s Specialist Workplace Coordinator started supporting Theodore, a Westminster resident, in September 2018. Theodore had been unemployed for 3 years after a tragic event of losing 3 immediate family members of his family and having health-related issues.

“Michaella was an absolute godsend and I couldn’t have done it without her. She is such an approachable person who really took the time to listen to the challenges I faced. From the very first time I met Michaella she really gave me belief that I could actually find work and work for a fantastic organisation. Michaella was extremely positive and set out a plan as to how she could support me into finding my next opportunity. She sat down with me and discussed my previous experience to amend my CV accordingly. Michaella also conducted several mock interview sessions to gain my confidence, how to answer interview questions (using the STAR method), and how to use engaging body language. I found these techniques extremely useful as this was something I struggled with in the past.

I am now happily working as a Trainee traffic Marshal at Carey’s, which is a great company. I am thoroughly enjoying my new role and really get along with my colleagues. Some of them are ex-serviceman, so I have made lifelong friendships as we have so much in common. I have now recommended Michaella to my female friend Jo, who recently passed her CSCS course as she is looking for a career in Construction. Jo has been finding it extremely difficult to get into the Construction industry and not having any luck with finding a job. I told her to and go and see Michaella too!”

For more information regarding support into work please contact Michaella Jackson, Specialist Work Workplace Coordinator at Recruit London.

CRP’s Recruit London programme is gearing up for the busy Christmas recruitment period. We are continually working with employers to build on the variety of roles on offer in order to meet the needs of local unemployed residents, especially those that are long-term unemployed or facing particular barriers into work, such as suffering from ill-health conditions or facing homelessness.

We continue to provide a free local service to businesses, promote vacancies to attract eligible candidates, deliver job-specific training and support to candidates, screen and broker candidates into employment, and support the employer and candidates for six months to sustain employment. The story of two candidates who were recently supported into work by our Specialist Workplace Coordinators, Nikoletta Gjergji and Michaella Jackson, are below.

CRP is very grateful to its Recruit London funders for their ongoing support: Capital and Counties, Heart of London Business Alliance, London Borough of Camden, The Crown Estate, and Westminster City Council.

Please get in touch with CRP’s Sylvia Kankasa or Carol Quamina if you would like any further information.

At its Board meeting on 9th October 2018 CRP launched its most recent report, Art in the Public Realm: Creating Healthy Streets.

The report sets out the multiple economic, social and health benefits that art can bring to the public realm, through examples of what has already been achieved.

The report showcases projects from many of CRP’s central London borough and BID partners. The aim is to inspire more projects by a wide range of stakeholders.

The report was commissioned by the Central London Sub-Regional Transport Partnership, funded by Transport for London.

Many thanks to Urban Movement and Out Design for their work on the report.

Please contact Susannah Wilks if you would like to order copies.

Our Central London Sub-Regional Transport Partnership (CLSRTP) is currently commissioning exciting new studies as part of its 2018/19 programme. Highlighting the benefit of continuous, cross-borough cooperation, this work will focus on:

Fleet electrification and grid infrastructure concerns
Delivery of dual-purpose cycle stations: bike repair stands and water refill
Borough coordination of traffic management strategies and zero harm action plans
Cycle logistics: best practice, opportunities and challenges for London boroughs

CLSRTP is a collective of senior transport officers from ten of central London’s local authorities. The partnership, which Cross River Partnership manages and provides strategic direction for, on behalf of Transport for London, provides a borough-level focus on sub-regional transport priorities.

The CLSRTP boroughs are City of London Corporation, City of Westminster, London Borough of Camden, London Borough of Hackney, London Borough of Islington, London Borough of Lambeth, London Borough of Lewisham, London Borough of Southwark, London Borough of Wandsworth and Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea.

For more information, please contact CRP’s Programme Manager Electric Freight, Tanja Dalle-Muenchmeyer.

CRP is proud to work with the Victoria Business Improvement District (BID) to improve local air quality. One way we are doing so is by working with Victoria BID member businesses to better manage the delivery of goods and services to their premises and help reduce the number of delivery trips to their premises. Several multi-tenant buildings have participated in a deliveries audit exercise, monitoring their incoming and outgoing deliveries over a set period. CRP is analysing this data, using it to create targeted delivery and servicing plans (DSP) for each property.

These DSPs include practicable actions that, in addition to helping streamline businesses’ procurement operation, will lead to fewer delivery vehicles on the road and a quantified reduction in noxious emissions, making Victoria a healthier, more pleasant place to live, work and visit.

For more information, please contact CRP’s Business Engagement Officer, Sefinat Otaru.

Transport for London are seeking feedback on proposed changes to 33 bus routes in central London. The proposals are aimed at adapting to changing demand, simplifying the network and supporting economic growth. Find out more and provide feedback at www.tfl.gov.uk/central-london-bus-consultation by Friday 9 November 2018. CRP will also prepare a collaborative submission. Please contact Susannah Wilks if you would like to contribute.

The Mayor, Sadiq Khan, is seeking applications to his £6 million Mayor’s Air Quality Fund (MAQF) Round 3. The fund will support a range of ambitious projects that deliver reductions in emissions and exposure to air pollution.

Get in touch with CRP’s Air Quality Project Manager, Brendon Harper if you would like to shape and join a CRP-led collaborative cross-sector, cross-borough application.

CRP has been continuing work on the Defra-funded Clean Air Villages (CAV) project. CRP is working on behalf of the London Borough of Lambeth in partnership with the London Boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, and Lewisham, to reduce emissions from business deliveries and servicing at 10 air quality hotspot villages across the 5 boroughs.

12 out of 20 air quality business events have taken place so far, with two more scheduled in Lewisham and Islington for this month. CRP is engaging with businesses within these villages in order find out about local delivery and servicing issues. In Brixton (Lambeth), a group of local butchers worked together (independently of the CAV project) to reduce their own impact on pollution and congestion in the area; they reduced the number of suppliers that they use and have now reduced the number of deliveries to Electric Avenue. CRP is exploring whether other such examples of supplier consolidation can be applied to other business groups and villages for the CAV project.

Local Councillors have been very supportive of the project, for example in Lewisham where attendance at CAV events has been strong and fruitful.
CRP will be concluding its research and discussing its local recommendations for solutions with each borough towards the end of the year. January 2019 onwards will see the recommendations being put into action within each ‘village’.

For further information, please contact CRP’s CAV Business Engagement Officer, Kate Fenton.

Nikoletta Gjergji, Recruit London’s Specialist Workplace Coordinator supported Kristina Matia to secure her new role at Residential Management Group, with Christine Allen.

In Christine’s words:

“I used the Recruit London service for a vacancy I had to fill for a Housing Advisor. I found the process extremely easy and they met the requirements for the type of candidate I required well. They liaised with me from the start of the process until the actual recruitment of their candidate was achieved. Our new Housing Advisor is doing well and is on track to become an asset to our team and organisation. I am very happy with the Specialist Workplace Coordinator (Nikoletta Gjergji) that I dealt with and also with the candidate. I will certainly be using them again for future vacancies”.

Prior to being supported by CRP’s Recruit London service, Kristina had been unemployed for over 10 years due to raising her children and having health issues, which prevented her from gaining employment on her own.

For more information or to make a referral, please contact Recruit London’s Specialist Workplace Coordinator, Nikoletta Gjergji.

Working with the Royal Society of Arts, one of our new CRP colleagues, Ethan Howard has co-created a brief for this year’s Student Design Awards competition with sponsorship and input coming from Twitter.

The RSA Student Design Awards was established in 1924, making it the world’s longest-running student competition for higher education students and recent graduates. Each year the competition challenges emerging designers to tackle a range of design briefs focused on pressing social, environmental and economic issues. Sponsors of the awards range from Philips to Network Rail and previous winners include Sir Jonathan Ive, Chief Design Officer at Apple.

In collaboration with his friend, Thomas Wastling, a design consultant at service design agency Uscreates, the two former winners have devised the brief ‘Citizens as Shapers’. Their brief asks entrants to consider the question, “How can we design new ways to engage citizens in the decisions that affect them?”

Citizens are rarely engaged with the people making the decisions that affect them – even though they are often closer to the problems than those developing the policies to tackle them. They are looking for applicants to develop solutions that harnesses digital tools to increase the quantity and quality of citizens’ participation in democratic processes.

For more information, contact CRP’s Ethan Howard.

Archives: News Articles

Construction Candidate Case Study

Recruit London Update

Art in the Public Realm: Creating Healthy Streets

Upcoming CLSRTP Studies

DSPs for Victoria BID

Central London Bus Route Review

Mayor’s Air Quality Fund Round 3 Launched

Clean Air Villages Update

Recruit London Candidate Success

The Royal Society of Arts – Student Design Awards