CRP Partner Baker Street Quarter Partnership are recruiting for a Communications and Administration Assistant.
For more information visit http://www.bakerstreetq.co.uk/about/article/vacancies/
The Fleet Operator Recognition Scheme (FORS) is a voluntary accreditation scheme that promotes best practice for commercial vehicle operators. With over 4,700 members, FORS is gaining recognition as the transport industry’s go-to accreditation scheme.
In its August newsletter and on its website, FORS published an article on FREVUE and the project’s findings. Part of the FORS Standard requirement ‘G9 Modal shift and alternative vehicles’ states that fleet operators shall assess the opportunity to use electric or alternatively-fuelled or powered vehicles within the fleet. So, the findings of the FREVUE project will help members better understand the benefits of electric vehicles and the different options available compared to diesel power.
For more information, please see www.fors-online.org.uk, www.freuve.eu or contact the FREVUE Co-ordinator, Tanja Dalle-Muenchmeyer, on tanjadallemuenchmeyer@crossriverpartnership.org.
World Car Free Day 2017 (WCFD) is fast approaching giving us all the opportunity to get out of our vehicles and use alternative modes to get around our city. It is a great opportunity for CRP partners to showcase the great work being done to encourage more walking, cycling, public transport, consolidated deliveries all improve the air quality in central London and make our streets healthier.
It is linked to European Mobility Week which is an EU-sponsored week-long event culminating in a car free day on the last day. This year CRP will be joining the campaign digitally and want to encourage partners to pledge their support and tweet on the day about how you get around without the car.
You can download below example tweets and pledges for the day. We would love to see some of your interventions showcased e.g. parklets, cycle infrastructure, walking routes, click.collect promotions and any car free event you are holding on the day.
Cross River Partnership will be coordinating a community green street on 22nd September to align to World Car Free Day on Luxborough Street in the Marylebone Low Emission Neighbourhood.
For more information contact Deliver London Programme Manager – Vicky Keeble
Cross River Partnership launched ReStart with The Crown Estate to help Westminster residents who are homeless or at risk of homelessness to gain jobs, and at the same time support their customers on Regent Street and St James’s Market with recruitment.
ReStart is part of our Recruit London programme, which the Workplace Coordinator offers jobseekers one-to-one employment support and works closely with the local homeless charities, such as The Connections at St-Martin-in-The-Field and Centrepoint to support the jobseekers other needs.
If you would like to find out some stories of the jobseekers who have been supported by ReStart, please click here .
For more information, please contact CRP’s Nathalie Lam or click here.
The Mayor has committed £9m to create and improve green spaces and encourage tree planting and management in London!
London’s green spaces are vital for people’s wellbeing and with the aim of making London a National Park City the Mayor has launched the Greener City Fund.
This new programme will support projects that promote innovation and have a lasting impact in terms of making London’s neighbourhoods greener. Types of initiatives that this fund will support include: tree planting, restoring rivers, increasing the number of natural play-spaces for children, and creating green routes that encourage more Londoners to walk and cycle.
Funding is split across three project categories:
For information on how to apply and funding deadlines see the Greener City Fund prospectus, available here.
For more information please get in touch with Place Making Project Officer, Jane Overington.
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The London Environment Strategy is now out for consultation!
The Mayor wants London to be the world’s greenest global city. This will mean making it:
Realising the full potential of London’s environment could improve the health and quality of life of all Londoners, make London a fairer city and an even more attractive place to do business and keep the city functioning well for decades to come
Respond to the drat strategy and have your say here. Public consultation is open until 17th November.
For more information please get in touch with Place Making Project Officer, Jane Overington.
CRP have been managing the Marylebone Low Emission Neighbourhood (LEN) for 7 weeks; and it’s been really interesting coordinating all the different schemes to bring about a great collective result!
We’ve been involved in many fun activities in a short space of time including (but not limited to!)
It’s been an exciting few weeks, and we’re looking forward to coordinating the Luxborough Street Community Green Street on 22nd September.
For more information about the Marylebone LEN contact vickykeeble@crossriverpartnership.org
Recruit London attended an event at Paddington Development Trust (PDT) on 9th August. The aim was to give members of the community a chance to gain further knowledge and explore the opportunities available to them for Employment, Volunteering and Work Placements.
Recruit London facilitated an information stall which attracted many candidates and provided them with information about the service. A good number of candidates were registered, signed up to the available opportunities offered by Recruit London and will continue their journey into employment with their designated CRP Workplace Coordinator.
Recruit London look forward to further partnership work with PDT in the future.
For more information please contact Recruit London Project Support Assistant Whitney Addow.
In his capacity as Mayor of London and Chair of LEAP (London’s Local Enterprise Partnership) Sadiq Khan has launched a new £66 million capital Good Growth Fund for London 2017 – 2021, to help make sure that London is a city where all Londoners have an opportunity to be part of London’s prosperity.
CRP is preparing a collaborative application to submit to the fund on behalf of, and involving many of, its public, private and third sector partners. CRP’s application will address all 8 themes of the Good Growth Fund, with different interventions by different partners, all linked up, all delivering according to different timescales within the overall Good Growth Fund period. This Cross River Communities application will support a series of linked interventions across the central London area, all directed towards achieving Good Growth: People, Places and Prosperity.
The deadline for Expressions of Interest is 4pm on Monday 4th September 2017. Please click here for full information.
For further information please contact CRP’s project manager Brendon Harper.
The Mayor of London has launched an exciting new draft Transport Strategy to guide infrastructure planning and implementation up to 2041. Sadiq Khan’s ambitious and bold vision centres on reducing Londoners’ dependence on private cars, and making walking, cycling and green public transport the most appealing and practical choices for many more journeys.
The Mayor has allowed plenty of time for consultation. Comments can be submitted until 2nd October 2017 here.
CRP has already arranged for the draft Transport Strategy to be presented to its partners by Transport for London, and will be drafting a collaborative response to the strategy on behalf of its partners.
For further information please contact Susannah Wilks.
