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10th International Public Markets Conference

9th May 2019 / Posted by CRP Team

The 10th International Public Markets Conference takes place between June 6th-8th 2019. Bringing together over 300 public market leaders, advocates, and representatives from throughout the world, attendees will have the unique opportunity to experience first-hand the character and striking diversity of London’s market scene! The conference, hosted by the Mayor of London and Project for Public Spaces, will focus on inclusion, innovation, and the social and economic impacts of public markets. For more information, please visit: https://publicmarkets.pps.org/

Final Clean Air Better Business Stakeholder Meeting

15th April 2019 / Posted by CRP Team

After six years of cross-borough, cross-sector working, CRP’s Clean Air Better Business programme (CABB) came to a close with a final stakeholder meeting on 3 April 2019.

CRP Partners from boroughs and BIDs heard from project Partners including Kings College London, The Northbank BID and Victoria BID, just how far business-led action has come since CABB began, and how CABB has supported that journey.

CABB Project Manager, Brendon Harper, launched a programme summary report, outlining the key outcomes and achievements of the Clean Air Better Business programme. The report can be accessed here.

Despite the completion of CABB, CRP-led partnership programmes continue to improve London’s air quality continue, including our 7-borough, Defra-funded Clean Air Villages programme.

Clean Air Better Business Summary Report

15th April 2019 / Posted by CRP Team

Over the past six years, Cross River Partnership’s Mayor’s Air Quality Funded ‘Clean Air Better Business’ programme has brought together central London boroughs, BIDs and businesses to support the business sector to reduce emissions and exposure to toxic air pollution.

A programme summary report, available here outlines the programme’s key achievements including:

1. Putting air quality firmly on the business agenda
2. Supporting businesses to reduce emissions from freight and servicing
3. Taking on the impact of growing e-commerce deliveries
4. Supporting business-led green infrastructure and healthy streets
5. Reducing exposure to toxic air pollution
6. Spreading the word that Clean Air is Better for Business

Air quality is now firmly on the business agenda, with BIDs, estates and individual businesses now leading action to clean London’s air while achieving commercial and CSR goals.

CRP continues to lead multi-borough, cross-sector programmes to improve air quality, with programmes such as Clean Air Villages taking lessons learnt from Clean Air Better Business to upscale action.

Zero and Low Emission Supplier Directory

19th March 2019 / Posted by CRP Team

CRP is excited to be launching a Zero and Low Emission Supplier Directory in April 2019. This will provide a platform to promote businesses making low or zero emission deliveries, such as those on foot, by bike or using electric/hybrid vehicles.

The directory will be available online for anyone wishing to find suppliers who are committed to minimising pollution on our streets. We are currently focussing on businesses that deliver within five identified air pollution hotspots as part of the Clean Air Villages project.

If you think your business may be eligible, and wish to be part of this directory, please apply here.

For further information on Clean Air Villages and the directory, please contact either Kate Fenton or Abby McDougall.

Camden Ability – Update

19th March 2019 / Posted by CRP Team

CRP’s CamdenAbility project works with a network of local employers to improve disability standards and create opportunities for Camden residents with disabilities and long-term health conditions. The project is funded by Camden Council and delivered in partnership with Business Disability Forum.

CamdenAbility is working with over 30 cross sector organisations, including local government, education, media and art, science and research, hospitality and a number of disability charities based in and around Camden.

Since launching in February 2017, CamdenAbility has supported our members to create, recruit, and sustain local disabled talent.

Organisations such as Caterlink, Apleona, The Francis Crick Institute, The Alan Turing Institute and The Camden Society have all successfully recruited candidates through the project.

We have also created numerous unpaid opportunities to support our candidates to gain experience, improve their skills and grow in confidence to progress towards employment.

Camden Council, Mott Macdonald, UCL, Waitrose, Mind and The Francis Crick institute and are just some of our members working with the project to create work experience opportunities.

Over the next few months, CamdenAbility will continue to create fantastic opportunities for our candidates.  Some of these will include working with Tottenham Hotspurs Foundation to recruit disabled candidates for roles at their new stadium, construction site tours with Laing O’Rourke, a summer internship at the Wellcome Trust, more work experience placements at UCL and Camden Council and interview training with Matrix SCM.

To find out more about CamdenAbility, please contact Parma Sira at parmasira@crossriverpartnership.org

MLEN – Update

19th March 2019 / Posted by CRP Team

CRP has been pleased to programme manage the Marylebone Low Emission Neighbourhood (LEN) on behalf of  Westminster City Council and partners since August 2017, following their successful bid to the Mayor of London’s Mayor’s Air Quality Fund in 2016.

Coming to a close in March 2019, the LEN has delivered urban realm improvements, building efficiency audits, anti-idling driver engagement, an emissions-based parking surcharge, a multi-year schools engagement programme, and deliveries and servicing improvements with businesses, as well as smaller complementary behaviour change and community engagement initiatives. The Marylebone LEN successfully brought together partners from the local community as well as the private sector to harness the strength of partnership working.

For more information contact CRP’s Tom Linton-Smith.

CLSRTP – Update

19th March 2019 / Posted by CRP Team

The past year has been an eventful one for the Central London Sub-Regional Transport Partnership. Lots has been achieved on behalf of the boroughs including:

  • Support for cycle repair and water refill stations
  • Support of the Central London Freight Quality Partnership
  • Electricity grid capacity assessment for borough depots
  • Review of Zero Harm best practice
  • Study on support for cycle logistics
  • Research on innovations in funding for transport

The partnership has also grown this year, welcoming transport officers from the London Boroughs of Hackney and Lewisham, bringing the total to ten boroughs. This further increases the opportunities for knowledge-sharing and collaboration, and we look forward to working with all boroughs over the next 12 months.

For further information please contact CRP’s Deliver London Project Manager Tom Linton-Smith.

Recruit London Update

19th March 2019 / Posted by CRP Team

Cross River Partnership’s (CRP) flagship Recruit London programme is coming to an end on 31 March 2019, after 9 years of delivery supporting 3,123 long term unemployed residents into jobs.

The Recruit London service will be delivered by Westminster Employment Service colleagues from 1 April 2019.

Recruit London would like to thank all of the funders, referral agencies and businesses that we have supported and engaged with over the years, including Westminster City Council, The Crown Estate, Heart of London Business Alliance, the Department for Work and Pensions, and Capital and Counties.

The Recruit London team is working closely with our Westminster Employment Service colleagues to hand over contacts and ensure a smooth and seamless transition.

The Recruit London team has continued to support workless residents into jobs while looking for new jobs themselves!  Four of the team have already secured jobs with Recruit London partner organisations, and we are confident that the rest of the team will also go onto amazing things!  Thank you to all of the Recruit London team for all of the results they have delivered with and for Westminster families over recent years.

Recruit London is hosting a small reception to thank all of those who have been involved with the programme on 27 March, from 5pm – 7pm.  Do get in touch if you have not already received an invitation and would like one.

If you have any queries, please contact Sylvia Kankasa, Recruit London Programme Manager, at sylviakankasa@crossriverpartnership.org.

 

 

CRP Graduates

19th March 2019 / Posted by CRP Team

CRP would like to thank Charlotte Marro and Kiran Kumar, the Westminster City Council Graduate Placements, for all of the work that they have delivered for CRP and its partners over the last six months!  Charlotte and Kiran have been busy every single day at CRP, and have given the team invaluable support in areas as diverse as Business Engagement; Website Design; Public Realm; Client Database; E Newsletter; Healthy Streets; Air Quality Monitoring; Event Management; CRP Partner Meetings; Bid Preparation; Public Consultation; to name but a few!  Well done Charlotte and Kiran!

CRP wishes Charlotte and Kiran all the very best for their next six months placements, in the Public Health and Children’s Services teams of Westminster City Council and Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

CRP is looking forward to welcoming its next graduate placement into its team, Jay Chauhan.  Jay will be leading all of CRP’s Communications work.

Liveable Neighbourhoods Successes

19th March 2019 / Posted by CRP Team

Eleven London boroughs have secured funding from The Mayor of London and Transport for London’s Liveable Neighbourhoods programme to make their streets more people-friendly. The winning bids include projects designed to cut rat running, make junctions safer, implement new walking and cycling infrastructure, create pocket parks and revamp public spaces.

The Mayor of London said “For too long streets around London have been designed solely around cars and motor traffic. Our £50m investment will transform neighbourhoods and local town centres in inner and outer London, making them cleaner, greener and more pleasant places to spend time.”

Congratulations to CRP member authorities The London Borough of Camden, London Borough of Lambeth, London Borough of Southwark and the City of London Corporation on their success! You can read more about their plans here: https://www.transportxtra.com/publications/local-transport-today/news/60412/tfl-announces-winners-of-liveable-neighbourhoods-funding/

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