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Taking place between 25 September and 1 October, Heart of London is running a competition for businesses to showcase reducing waste and recycling. Entries will be tweeting pledges, or sending photos of recycling in action using the handle @HOLBID and #RecycleWeek. The winner will be announced in the following week and receive Heart of London goodie bags for up to five employees.

Heart of London are also hoping to confirm their chosen preferred supplier by National Recycling Week and use the opportunity to promote sign up to the supplier. This supplier will be offering businesses preferential BID discounts for recycling and have a proposal to service the BID area in the most efficient and environmentally friendly way possible as well as promoting collections to reduce visible waste on the street. This initiative will help cut waste management costs and in turn, assist in the reduction of vehicle numbers on the roads, improve air quality and tackle congestion.

You don’t have to be a business to take part in National Recycling Week, share your tweets with us!

For more information contact christinawells@crossriverpartnership.org

The West End Partnership’s Delivery and Servicing Group have been providing a strategic focus for the future of deliveries and servicing in a changing West End. Sharing success stories and lessons from innovative projects, the group is developing a plan for freight in the West End for the next three years. Partners in the area are busy working on exciting projects that could have a real impact, including Delivery and Service Planning for upcoming major public realm projects, and launching preferred supplier schemes to improve the function of major shopping streets.

Find out more information from CRP’s Tom Linton-Smith.

Full steam ahead in the Marylebone Low Emission Neighbourhood (MLEN)! September sees another important milestone delivered under Cross River Partnership’s management of the MLEN. Striking new lamppost banners have been hung in and around Marylebone High Street. They are hung to raise awareness about the Marylebone Low Emission Neighbourhood, a three year project to radically improve the air quality in a focused area.

For more information contact Marylebone LEN Interim Programme Manager Vicky Keeble.

Cross River Partnership will be coordinating a Community Green Street on 22^nd September on Luxborough Street in the Marylebone Low Emission Neighbourhood(LEN) to align with World Car Free Day.

The street will be turned into a green street from 3pm – 6pm by Marylebone LEN partners, complete with parklets, trees, electric bikes and a pop-up gym. There will be planters available for visitors to plant some air quality friendly plants, with some games for entertainment. There will also be the chance to learn more about what a Low Emission Neighbourhood is and the plans for Marylebone.

CRP is promoting World Car Free Day 2017 (WCFD) as an opportunity for all our partners to showcase some of the innovate projects and interventions taking place to encourage more walking, cycling, public transport, and consolidated deliveries, with the goal of improving air quality in central London and making our streets healthier.

If you are in the area, do pop along to the Community Green Street on Luxborough Street and enjoy the activities taking place.

For more information contact Andy Martin

Albert, aged 49 is a Westminster resident who was unemployed for over 9 years before being supported into employment as a Street Patroller and Litter Picker at Leicester Square’s McDonalds by Sylvia Kankasa (Specialist Workplace Coordinator at Recruit London) and Nikoletta Gjergji (Project Support Assistant at Recruit London). Albert was referred by Stella from CNWL.

Albert had been volunteering once a week with Action for Hearing Loss at a homeless shelter for 2 years. Albert is deaf so he finds volunteering very rewarding however, he wanted to start earning an income and so, Sylvia spoke to Albert regarding his needs and requirements and negotiated with McDonalds to open up a bespoke role for him. Well done Albert!

For further information please contact CRP’s Sylvia Kankasa or Nikoletta Gjergji

One of the legacies of FREVUE is the new SEUL project, set up with Office for Low Emission Vehicles UK funding to further extend the number of freight electric vehicles being charged and used by UPS across central London, working with UK Power Networks and CRP. A handy postcard introduction to the project has been produced.

We are very happy to welcome Shanon Lim and Tom Linton-Smith to the CRP team.

Shanon Lim Tom Linton-Smith

Shanon joined CRP as our new Transport Project Officer. He is primarily working on the finalisation of FREVUE and will engage in various Air Quality projects that CRP are working on. Shanon completed his MSc in Environmental Science, focussing on air quality in public transport. For more information contact Shanon here.

Tom Linton-Smith is our new Transport and Sustainability Officer. He is working on a range of projects for CRP including Freight TAILS and the West End Partnership Delivery and Servicing Programme.

Tom has recently completed his MSc in Transport Planning and Management at the University of Westminster, with a focus on active travel. His final research project was on urban family cycling. For more information contact Tom here.

After 4.5 years of partnership work, the last day of the Freight Electric Vehicles in Urban Europe project (FREVUE) has now come and gone. As the funder and external assessors are approving reports and publications, these are gradually being made available on the FREVUE website.

FREVUE results

The highly interesting results have already drawn a large crowd at the FREVUE Final Conference in June. We would now be happy to discuss these results and their implications for London in more detail with any of our partners and stakeholders. Do feel free to contact the CRP FREVUE Co-ordinator, Tanja Dalle-Muenchmeyer, to arrange a meeting.

For more information, please see www.frevue.eu or follow FREVUE on twitter @FREVUE_project.

More than 60 businesses have participated in CRP’s deliverBEST programme in recent months and received practical, proven solutions to make deliveries to their central London sites more efficient. Recommended actions are saving time and money while reducing traffic congestion and improving local air quality.

By completing deliverBEST’s quick online questionnaire at www.deliverbest.london businesses receive bespoke recommendations that can help uncover efficiencies. CRP’s deliverBEST team are then available to provide 1:1 support, provide implementation insights, measure results and share best practice via workshops.

deliverBEST has been developed by Cross River Partnership, is supported by Defra and the Mayor’s Air Quality Fund and is delivered with partners including Better Bankside and Victoria BIDs.

For further information please contact CRP’s Project Manager, Brendon Harper.

CRP is very pleased to welcome Hammersmith London Business Improvement District (BID) as the newest member of the partnership. The BID, which represents over 350 businesses in the Hammersmith town centre, is the 19^th BID to join CRP.

CRP are looking forward to working with Hammersmith London team to support delivery of their member business’ priorities and to share and link with other CRP BID, borough and strategic partners.

For further information please contact Hammersmith London BID.

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