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TfL Freight Forum

10th December 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

CRP was pleased to attend a lively TfL Freight Forum earlier this week, hosted by the City of London Corporation. The annual forum brings together freight and logistics operators, business groups, boroughs and TfL to discuss all things freight in London.

This year’s forum focussed on the Mayor’s Vision Zero and TfL’s Freight Action Plan, which will be launched in the new year. CRP has contributed to the development of the Plan through membership on TfL’s Freight Policy Advisory Panel and Freight External Partners Group.

For further information please contact CRP’s Brendon Harper.

Laura Jacklin – Business Engagement Officer

10th December 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

Laura joined CRP earlier this month and will be working with us as a Business Engagement Officer within the Deliver London team, focusing on the Clean Air Villages project.

Laura previously spent over 4 years working with large corporations on their sustainability strategies focusing on sustainable modes of transport in an international business park, and working with a food retailer’s sustainability policies.

Please contact Laura Jacklin for further information.

Recruit London – Performance for November 2018

10th December 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

The Recruit London Programme is managed by Cross River Partnership and delivered in partnership with organisations including Westminster Council, The Crown Estate, Capital & Counties CG Ltd, The Heart of London Business Alliance, and Camden Council’s CamdenAbility Project.

For the month of November 2018, Recruit London as a whole achieved the following:

  • 82 candidate registrations, of which 38 have been unemployed for 12 months or more;
  • 27 receiving interim support; a reflection of the increased number of long term unemployed on our caseloads;
  • 31 job starts; and
  • 1 job sustained for six months, with more to come as we wait for evidence for sustained numbers.

On average, employers in the West End will spend upwards of £3,000 per person on recruitment; including HR recruitment time, different stages of interviews and inductions. Recruit London is a free service that will screen, train and place job ready people into employment, thus saving the employer over £3,000 on recruitment fees.

For further information on CRP’s Recruit London service, please do not hesitate to contact CRP Sylvia Kankasa.

Capital Arches Group Opportunities

10th December 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

Capital Arches Group Ltd have strongly supported CRP’s partnership Recruit London initiative by offering employment opportunities to many Westminster residents across all of their McDonald’s Restaurants. We have organised regular recruitment open days which has enabled local job seekers to visit the restaurant and learn more about the local business. This gave the candidates the opportunity to improve their interview performance, boosted their confidence and enhanced their job prospects. Through our partnership we have been able to place over 33 people into employment with very good success stories. The employer is very accommodating to those with mental and physical disabilities and supports individuals to develop the key skills, sustain employment and progress further within their career. This has proven invaluable to us and those facing long-term unemployment. We look forward to continue working with Capital Arches Group Ltd in 2019.

Carolina Costa Kanwar, Head of Operations Support at Capital Arches Group Ltd:

“The recruitment service from Recruit London is fantastic and the team is always very helpful and supportive. Ilona has visited us a few times and she has a real understanding of our business and our hiring needs and has helped us to recruit a number of residents across many of our restaurants.”

For further information please contact Recruit London’s Ilona Wilk.

Clean Air Villages – Workshops Completed

10th December 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

The Clean Air Villages project continues and CRP are pleased to report that a total of 20 Air Quality seminars have been completed, 2 in each village. The seminars were an opportunity for local businesses to come and discuss local issues about deliveries and servicing and to find out about ways in which they could save time and money whilst also improving local air quality.  With business attendees ranging from sole traders to national chains, and with help from local Councillors, CRP has built up a picture of each local village and their individual issues.  CRP is in the process of meeting with each borough to brainstorm over the local recommendations which will be made and implemented within each village.  Meetings with Lambeth and Islington have already taken place.  Meetings with Hammersmith and Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea and Lewisham are due to take place in the coming weeks.

CRP are continuing with 121 business engagement across all five boroughs.  As we move into 2019, the village solutions will be put into action and CRP will be hard at work producing case studies.

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

CRP Christmas Break

10th December 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

CRP wishes all its partners, colleagues and customers a joyful Christmas!  Our office will be closing for the Christmas break on Friday 21st of December 2018, and we will be re-opening on Wednesday 2nd of January 2019.  If you have any urgent queries over that period, please do not hesitate to contact Susannah Wilks.  Ho ho ho!

Great British Market Awards

10th December 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

Entries for the Great British Market Awards 2019 close on 31 December! NAMBA want to celebrate and promote the excellent markets that can be found in our communities. They are particularly keen to see a few of London’s markets nominated for one of the ten available categories. More information about the awards and how to nominate your favourite market can be found here.

Donations to the Trussell Trust Foodbank

10th December 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

Cross River Partnership team members were delighted to donate food, clothes and toiletries to the Trussell Trust foodbank last week. The foodbank put together emergency 3 day packs for Westminster residents who are experiencing financial hardship through a voucher scheme. CRP’s Transport and Sustainability Manager Tom kindly cycled the donations via cargo bike to the drop-off point at Westminster Chapel.

If you would like to read more about how you can support the foodbank, visit the website here.

Recruit London Candidate Job Start

10th December 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

Nikoletta (Nikki) Gjergji, Recruit London’s Specialist Workplace Coordinator, has been providing ongoing employment support to Westminster resident Meera since April. Meera has been unemployed due to health issues for over 2 years. With Nikki’s support, Meera is now employed as a Ceremonies Usher at the Old Marylebone Town Hall.

Meera Main: “I have found Nikoletta to be very supportive. Nikki has been considerate of the fact that I have been out of work a long time and was determined to find me a nice job within a good establishment where I can build on my confidence, grow, develop and learn.

With Nikki’s support, I have secured a job in a lovely environment with exceptionally wonderful people. I am enjoying every minute of my new job and the experiences I am having.

I would most definitely recommend the service Nikki provides to all my friends and family!”

Rocky Akbar, Senior Usher: “Meera is an eager, enthusiastic young woman. She is great at communicating face to face and more Impressively via the walkie talkies we use – many people are intimidated by those but Meera has taken to them like a duck to water! She is shy but I can see every time I work with her she is growing in confidence. She listens and is eager to learn more. Thank you to Nikki – Recruit London for your support!”

For more information about the Recruit London programme or to make a referral, please contact Specialist Workplace Coordinator Nikoletta Gjergji.

SEUL in Motion – A Review of 2018

10th December 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

The Smart Electric Urban Logistics (SEUL) project has seen a huge amount of progress in 2018, with the project now clearly demonstrating the technical capabilities of the smart charging system which has been deployed at global logistics company UPS’s Kentish Town depot serving central London. The smart charging system went live back in March and operates in a business as usual environment. All of the project’s additional 20 electric vehicle conversions have also been completed this year, and are already providing real-world data as part of the Low Emission Freight and Logistics Trial.

UPS welcomed London Deputy Mayor for Environment, Shirley Rodrigues, as well as Global Action Plan and other guests to the Kentish Town depot in June as part of a sustainability event around Clean Air Day, showing the strong interest in this innovative project.

CRP are looking forward to continue the great work with UPS and project partner UK Power Networks in 2019.

For more information, please see the project webpage or contact CRP’s Programme Manager Electric Freight Tanja Dalle-Muenchmeyer.

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