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CRP is very pleased to be represented on TfL’s new panel alongside organisations including:

•   Federation of Small Business
•   Freight Transport Association
•   John Lewis
•   London Councils
•   London First
•   Marble Arch/Paddington Now BID
•   New West End Company
•   Northbank BID
•   UPS

We look forward to working with TfL and its partners to further improve the effectiveness of freight policies, for maximum economic, environmental and social benefits to London.

For further information please contact CRP’s Director, Susannah Wilks.

Westminster City Council’s Planning and City Development Committee has approved plans for the Illuminated River, led by The Illuminated River Foundation. The project aims to install lights on fifteen central London bridges spanning the River Thames, including seven bridges landing in Westminster (Waterloo, Golden Jubilee, Westminster, Lambeth, Vauxhall, Grosvenor and Chelsea) by 2023. CRP sits on the Steering Group of the project. When completed it will be the world’s longest public art commission at 2.5 miles long, along 4.5 nautical miles of the river.

For further information, please contact The Illuminated River Foundation.

The CRP team is looking forward to the imminent release of The Mayor’s Air Quality Fund (MAQF) Round 3.

MAQF is a £20 million fund distributed over ten years to support projects by London boroughs to improve air quality. With the support of MAQF Rounds 1 and 2, CRP’s award-winning Clean Air Better Business programme has brought together boroughs, BIDs and businesses to reduce emissions and exposure.

The GLA’s Deputy Air Quality Manager, Poppy Lyle, will present to CRP’s upcoming Board Meeting, at which point CRP will kick-start conversations with partners about a potential collaborative sub-regional application.

For more information, contact CRP’s Air Quality Project Manager, Brendon Harper.

Euston Town business partnership is creating a walking and cycling route on Drummond Street leading from Euston Station to The Regent’s Park, as a healthier and more pleasant alternative to Euston Road which has high levels of air and noise pollution due to constant congestion.

The street will have additional green infrastructure, including a green walkway and a living wall with LED lighting. There will be other interesting interventions to encourage more walking along the street. At the heart of these will be an innovative sculpture by physicist and artist, Jasmine Pradissito. Made from a NOXtek, an environmentally friendly material that absorbs dangerous nitrogen oxides from the air, the sculpture is set to be installed on Camden People’s Theatre.

Read more about Euston Town’s work reconnecting locals with their green spaces.

On Saturday 22^nd September, Car Free Day was celebrated in around 50 streets across London, as vehicles gave way to community and play activities.

Transport for London and London Play have supported residents in organising a number of these streets with resources and activities to bring the local community out in to their streets in a safe, traffic-free environment.

The health, environmental and economic costs of air pollution are a major factor in efforts to transform the Mayor and TfL’s efforts to make London’s communities greener, healthier and more attractive places to live, work, play and do business.

TfL are supporting temporary street closures to inspire longer term change, and have produced a practical guide to delivering temporary, light touch projects to change the look and feel of a street.

Using CRP’s Clean Air Route Finder, reducing your personal exposure to air pollution is possible all year round. As well as a growing number of prescribed routes like our new route from Hammersmith to Furnivall Gardens, the tool allows users to generate lower pollution walking and cycling routes across London.

For more information about the Clean Air Route Finder, contact CRP’s Brendon Harper.

Cross River Partnership has been invited to enter the Energy Savings Trust’s 2018 Fleet Heroes Awards & Conference once again. In 2017, Brendon Harper accepted the Clean Air award on behalf of CRP stating, “Winning the Fleet Hero ‘Clean Air Award’ was fantastic recognition for all of our public and private sector partners’ work to reduce emissions from deliveries and travel.”

Read more from his interview here.

Visit fleetheroes.org.uk to enter your organisation for the Awards before 1 October 2018.

Lucy Bretelle joined CRP earlier this month for a short internship. She is helping the Deliver London team deliver the Clean Air Villages programme by reaching out to businesses in Earl’s Court interested in improving the local air quality. She has participated in surveying Crouch End businesses about their delivery patterns and their thoughts on active travel services in the area. She is also collecting data in Marylebone and Earl’s Court. She will soon return to university to continue with her Master’s Degree in City Planning.

In her words, “I am staying here for a very short amount of time sadly, but I have been really enjoying it! Everyone has been very welcoming and kind. I have learnt a lot whilst being here. Applying urban sustainability projects into practice has been invaluable experience for me.”

CRP is very grateful for everything that Lucy has done in her short time with us.

For more details about her experience with CRP, email lucybretelle@crossriverpartnership.org.

CRP will shortly submit the final project claim for the URBACT III funded Freight TAILS project. The project consisting of ten European partners was launched in September 2015 and completed in May 2018. It focussed on tailored freight management policies to address the challenges posed by rapidly increasing freight movements using the Integrated Action Planning methodology.

Further details, including the Final Report and Integrated Action Plans from the ten project partners can be found on the Freight TAILS project page of the URBACT Website.

For more information, please contact CRP’s Operations Manager, Carol Quamina.

“Vin” is living in a hostel managed by Centrepoint and Peabody Housing Association in Covent Garden. Through the support of The Crown Estate-funded ReStart project and Workplace Coordinatior, Nathalie, he is now working as the Cleaning Operative at Property Support Services (PSS) and this is his first paid job. He was also shortlisted as the employee of the month. Well done Vin!

Vin shared:

“It was confusing as a young Westminster resident to find a part-time job in Central London, especially for my first paid job! Nathalie who leads the ReStart project motivated and coached me to talk about my experience in the National Citizenship Service and my volunteering experience at my interview with PSS, rather than worrying about my lack of experience. Her advice helped me to communicate my enthusiasm during the interview. As a result, I am happily surprised that PSS has offered me the cleaning operative job. I competed against those who have years of experience in the industry. I have learnt a lot over the past few months and am excited to have a paid job whilst studying. I can save up for a rainy day! Thank you Nathalie for your advice.”

For further information, contact CRP’s Nathalie Lam.

For the year commencing April 2018, we at Recruit London have finally recruited for all the business facing Specialist and Workplace Coordinator positions, with 8 members of staff, including the Programme Manager. We are now at full capacity and are working to ensure that we achieve our employment outcomes, as stated in the Cross River Partnership annual report and business plan; 348 employment support and 255 job starts for workless residents.

As we come to the mid-way point in the year, we are set to overachieve on our employment support and are currently below target on job starts. Now that we have everyone in place, we have put plans in place to take advantage of Christmas recruitment, which commences in October, carry on with the strides that we have made with recruitment into the Construction industry as well as our day to day brokerage.

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 6 months to sustain employment. We have put in place a robust feedback process and a safe data sharing of joint work action points.

We are excited that we have built on the variety of roles that we offer, a better reflection of the needs of the residents that we support.

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TfL Freight Policy Advisory Panel

The Illuminated River

Mayor’s Air Quality Fund

Euston Town Art Meets Air Quality

London Celebrates Car Free Day

Fleet Heroes

CRP Intern Experience

Freight TAILS Final Claim

ReStart Case Study

Recruit London