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SEUL Shortlisted

20th August 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

CRP’s Smart Electric Urban Logistics (SEUL) project has been shortlisted for the SHD Logistics Awards, along with UPS and UK Power Networks.

The Logistics Awards is an annual celebration of excellence in the logistics and supply chain sectors and recognise the most impressive achievements throughout the industry over the past 12 months. This year’s awards are taking place on Thursday 20 September 2018 at The Swan, Shakespeare’s Globe. Fingers crossed!

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

The Mayor’s EV Infrastructure Taskforce

20th August 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

In May 2018, the Mayor launched the Electric Vehicle (EV) Infrastructure Taskforce chaired by Shirley Rodrigues, Deputy Mayor for Environment and Energy. The 16-member Taskforce, which CRP has been asked to sit on, will provide guidance on how to implement the Mayor’s vision of a zero emission transport network by 2050, focusing on the lack of electric vehicle charging infrastructure that remains an important barrier to the take-up of EVs.

On 17 July, CRP joined the first of three EV Infrastructure workshops and contributed to facilitated group sessions on EV user types as well as user charging requirements. One of the interesting questions was: Is what users want actually what users need? Unsurprisingly, the discussions were animated.

For more information, please contact CRP’s Programme Manager Electric Freight on Tanja Dalle-Muenchmeyer or the Mayor’s team on EVTaskforce@tfl.gov.uk.

CASB Project Successfully Completed

20th August 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

CRP has successfully concluded its Clean Air Small Business (CASB) Project funded by the Defra 2016/17 Air Quality Grant Scheme.  Tackling central London’s poor air quality, the project supported small- and medium-sized businesses in the London Borough of Camden and City of Westminster to optimise their delivery and servicing activity.  Using deliverBEST, an online business tool and support service developed by CRP, participating businesses could quickly identify and implement actions that resulted in time and cost savings, while reducing their impact on local air quality.

Through CASB, CRP was able to reach 90 businesses and organisations in Camden and Westminster, and raise awareness about the impact of deliveries and servicing trips on local air quality. Additionally, CRP engaged its targeted number of 40 businesses, having more in-depth conversations and carrying out various activities, including two workshops addressing deliveries and air quality.

Lessons learned from CASB have been applied to other current CRP projects including DEFRA-funded Clean Air Villages across five London boroughs.

Contact Business Engagement Officer, Sefinat Otaru, for more information.

Clean Air Together Exhibition

20th August 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

A huge thank you to those who attended CRP’s Clean Air Together exhibition at the NLA Galleries over the past 2 months, especially those who made pledges to continue and extend our collective efforts to improve air quality.

We’re proud to have showcased our public and private partners’ efforts to almost 20,000 visitors to the NLA over June and July. And we’re hugely inspired by the 120 pledges ranging from choosing click & collect for online shopping deliveries and taking clean air routes to installing more green screens at schools and sharing cargo bikes with friends and neighbours.

Contact Brendon Harper for more information on CRP’s air quality work.

Healthy Greening Report

30th July 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

Cross River Partnership was commissioned by the GLA to pull together case studies and information from across central London about the fantastic greening projects that CRP’s partners and other London organisations have implemented; and how they are improving health and wellbeing of residents, employees and visitors.   With the potential economic, social and environmental (such as climate change mitigation) benefits so high, it’s really important for everyone to do as much as they can to create extra and improved green space in central London.

CRP developed a toolkit that supports businesses, landowners, local authorities, business improvement districts and others to develop more greening in urban areas, especially for the benefits of health and wellbeing.

The toolkit also provides great examples of community-led maintenance of green infrastructure, that helps get people outside and active whilst developing new skills.  Green projects don’t have to be large-scale. Smaller, linked projects also provide a network of greenery throughout the city, creating new things to see when visiting, living and working in London.

The toolkit will be launched during National Park City Week (21-29 July 2018) and is available on the CRP website here https://crossriverpartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Healthy-Greening.pdf.

For further information please contact susannahwilks@crossriverpartnership.org

Recruit London – London Pride Parade

24th July 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, and The Heart of London Business Alliance.  The projects are delivered by CRP-employed Workplace Coordinators (WPCs) and Specialist Workplace Coordinators (SWPCs).    The WPCs oversee the mainstream recruitment and the SWPCs work with unemployed people with health issues, physical disabilities, mental ill health and people experiencing homelessness.  .

 

CRP’s Recruit London Specialist Workplace Coordinator Nikoletta Gjergji arranged for a paid placement for her candidate Mohamed to work at London Pride Parade on Saturday 7thJuly 2018. Mohamed was employed as a causal health and safety officer and received 2 hours of Crowd Control and Safety training in preparation for the day. He thoroughly enjoyed walking along with the crowds and ensuring the health and safety of attendees by patrolling the grounds of the festival, monitoring electronic surveillance equipment, performing crowd control as well as providing information and directions to attendees.

 

Nikoletta met with Mohamed again on the following Monday for a catch up and to assess any improvements on his soft skills. Reportedly, the experience was something that he would not normally have known about or attended and he is so grateful to Nikki that he was put forward to the opportunity.  He thoroughly enjoyed it – everyone on the team as well as the participants and visitors were extremely friendly and he made new friends, learnt new skills, as well as earnt a wage.

 

To refer clients to the Specialist Workplace Coordinator project or for further information, please contact Nikoletta Gjergji: nikolettagjergji@crossriverpartnership.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

Walking Tube in Central London

17th July 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

CRP was commissioned by the Central London Sub-Regional Transport Partnership (CLSRTP), a collective of transport officers from central London’s eight local authorities, to undertake a study into promoting walking as a means to alleviate an overcrowded and heavily used tube network.

The main objective of this study is to provide a palette of interventions that promote the ‘walking tube’ approach, promoting walking between some of the busiest tube stations in central London to alleviate overcrowding and increase physical activity. The interventions range from changing perceptions of the tube network to using wayfinding technology to encourage walking trips.

Through encouraging increased walking, this report supports delivery of the ‘Healthy Streets’ approach championed in the Mayor’s Transport Strategy (MTS) and the target for 80% of Londoner’s trips to be on foot.   Walking tube interventions offer cleaner air, less noise, more connected neighbourhoods, improved physical fitness, better mental health and wellbeing for Londoners.  Encouraging walking increases social traffic on our streets that in turn generates economic traffic. The report coincides with the unveiling of the capital’s first Walking Action Plan.

Click here for a copy of the report.

For further information, contact CRP’s Vicky Keeble.

Clean Air Villages Launch

16th July 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

CRP is pleased to have officially launched the Clean Air Villages project, with a lunchtime event at CRP’s Clean Air Together Exhibition at New London Architecture. 

 

The DEFRA-funded project is a year long, working in collaboration with five central London boroughs: Hammersmith & Fulham, Islington, Kensington & Chelsea, Lambeth, Lewisham.  Local Councillors and Officers from each partnering borough met with Cross River Partnership at the launch event to discuss local air quality priorities and how the Clean Air Villages project contributes to meeting these.

 

The Clean Air Villages project aims to reduce pollution and congestion within ten air quality focus villages (2 per borough), with an emphasis on business deliveries and servicing. 

 

For more information please see the project webpage or contact CRP Programme Manager Tanja Dalle-Muenchmeyer or CRP Project Officer Kate Fenton.

CRP Apprentice

16th July 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

We are very happy to welcome Yasin Mahmood to the CRP team.

 

Yasin is our new business support apprentice.  Yasin completed a Level 3 Business & Accounting Diploma and  AS-level Citizenship & Politics qualifications and decided to take a different route rather than going to university.

Yasin is looking forward to learning lots of new skills and developing his knowledge and experience by getting involved with the wide range of projects that CRP delivers.

For further information please contact yasinmahmood@crossriverpartnership.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

West End Freight and Servicing Strategy

16th July 2018 / Posted by CRP Team

 

CRP recently presented a Freight and Servicing Strategy to the West End Partnership Board on behalf of their Deliveries and Servicing Group which is co-ordinated by CRP. Six prioritised actions were presented following consultation with stakeholders, which are underpinned by ambitious but achievable medium and long term targets for mitigating the impact of freight across the West End. This is vital for the continued prosperity of this diverse, unique area at the heart of the London economy.

The West End Partnership Board approved the strategy and asked that detailed proposals were developed for each of the six priority actions presented in the strategy.

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

WEP Freight and Servicing Strategy – Final June 2018

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