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On 5th July CRP attended the GLA’s Clean Air Act Anniversary Address event at Great Ormond Street Hospital to hear the Mayor launch his consultation on new measures to tackle air quality. The early stage consultation ends on 29th July and you can respond here http://talklondon.london.gov.uk/content/cleaning-londons-air-pollution.

The Mayor is keeping his campaign promises to make radical changes to improve air quality and meet EU limits across the capital by 2025. In addition to the consultation on the new toxicity charge (t-charge) and extension to the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ), the Mayor’s office have announced their commitment to remove traffic from Oxford Street.

For more information, or to find out about the work that CRP are doing with partners to tackle air pollution, contact Progamme Manager Vicky Keeble vkeeble@westminster.gov.uk

Cross River Partnership entered the Greening the BIDs programme that many of you have participated in for the Estates Gazette Awards 2016.

Greening the BIDs has been shortlisted in the Collaborators Award category. Well done everyone!

The finalists in this category are:

Canary Wharf Group, Level39

City of London Corporation, Standardised Wayleave Agreement for Digital Infrastructure

Cross River Partnership, Greening the BIDs

Lendlease, Regeneration Partners – Southwark Council and Lendlease

New West End Company, New West End Company’s Property Owner Business Improvement District(BID)

Government Property Unit, Government Property Unit

The winners will be announced at a dinner at the Grosvenor Hotel on the evening of 20th September 2016. Good luck everyone!

CRP is right behind the Mayor of London’s new campaign, #LondonIsOpen. The idea is to show that London is united and open to the world following the EU referendum.

Lots of people from creative and culture industries have asked how they can help and so Londoners, organisations and businesses are being invited to support the #LondonIsOpen message via social media, and by whatever means you would like to.

The first idea is to bring #LondonIsOpen to life by ‘opening doors’, so Sadiq has kicked off the campaign by opening a door at City Hall.

2 out of CRP’s current 14 major programmes are funded by the EU, and we will continue delivering these until completion in 2018. We will carry on fundraising from a diverse range of sources to secure exciting project opportunities for our partners. If you have any queries about CRP and European funding, please do not hesitate to contact CRP’s Director Susannah Wilks.

CRP is looking for an outstanding individual for the maternity cover of our Employability Co-ordinator. In this role you will lead, develop and manage CRP’s employment programmes, which work closely with businesses to achieve project outcomes. You will develop and maintain partnerships, establish and manage projects and programmes, line-manage a team of delivery staff, seek and secure new funding opportunities and ensure successful delivery.

CRP is a unique organisation to work for. To succeed in this role you will:
• have extensive experience in the employment and skills sector;
• have significant experience of successfully managing complex projects or programmes which bring together the private, public and voluntary sector;
• be able to quickly develop new partnerships and tailor your approach to different audiences;
• effectively lead a team;
• be able to spot and develop new opportunities.

Key details
• Application closing date: Monday 15th August 2016
• Interview date: Thursday 25th August 2016
• To apply: https://jobs.westminster.gov.uk/intranet/wd_portal.show_job?p_web_site_id=4511&p_web_page_id=271540&p_preview=Y•

For more information: contact Elizabeth Harris on eharris@westminster.gov.uk or 07875 765 751

The Freight TAILS kick-off meeting of European partners was hosted superbly by our partner City of Suceava, Romania on 27-28 June 2016. With over 120 organisations already involved in local Freight TAILS groups across Europe, this first transnational meeting focussed on how to attract, and work with a range of stakeholders all of whom have an interest in urban freight. Future transnational meetings will focus issues around urban freight and: data; integration; regulation and enforcement; voluntary behaviour; and procurement. Cross River Partnership members are welcome to participate in future Freight TAILS meetings. Please contact Charlotte Knell, Project Manager for more details: cknell1@westminster.gov.uk.

Ion Lungu Mayor of Suceava City welcomes Freight TAILS partners to the Phase 2 Kick off meeting 27-28 June 2016.

On 27 June BREYTNER Zero Emission Transport launched operations with two 19 tonne trucks in Rotterdam. The trucks are fully electric and will be re-charged using solar energy, making them a truly zero emission delivery option for urban distribution. “We view the air quality issue as a challenge, not as an obstacle. This position has made us successful and has helped us develop, together with our clients, this clean solution.” says Marie-José Baartmans, director at BREYTNER.

BREYTNER offer their services for business to business and business to consumer deliveries. In their hub concept a modular system of swap bodies is driven two or three at a time from a national/regional distribution centre to city boundaries or those of low emission zones. Here the sealed swap bodies are parked and driven into the inner city one by one by fully electric truck.

The FREVUE (Freight Electric Vehicles in Urban Europe) project is an urban e-mobility project supported by the European Commission. For further information please contact CRP’s FREVUE Co-ordinator, Tanja Dalle-Muenchmeyer, on tdmuenchmeyer@westminster.co.uk

http://frevue.eu/

The Into Work programme results are in, and 705 central London unemployed or economically inactive residents were supported into work since delivery started in June 2014. Of those, 31.5% were out of year for a year or more. Cross River Partnership commissioned and actively manages nine charities and community interest companies to deliver the programme, which provided tailored training and support then brokered candidates into job roles in a range of sectors including retail, hospitality, health & social care and facilities.

Into Work covered nine central London boroughs (Camden, City of London, Hackney, Islington, Kensington & Chelsea, Lambeth, Southwark, Wandsworth and Westminster). The programme will continue until September 2016 to help 75% of candidates sustain work for a six month period. Into Work is funded by the City of London Corporation.

Through the programme, delivery partner SR Employment and Training have worked with OCS to recruit twelve candidates from Lambeth, Southwark and Wandsworth for security and stewarding roles. Alex Obasto, the Events Recruitment Manager at OCS for the London region (pictured above) said: “The calibre of staff they provide and the speed with which they provide them has really, really impressed me. SR Employment has…shown a real interest in our requirements and to date have not brought forward any candidates that were below the standards we accept. Thank you SR for all your efforts, here’s to many more years of a fruitful relationship.”

If you have any questions, please do contact Elizabeth Harris, Cross River Partnership’s Employability Coordinator, on eharris@westminster.gov.uk.

Monika, a 25 -year-old Westminster resident, had been unemployed for almost a year due to health reasons before she was helped back into work by Cross River Partnership’s Recruit London initiative. Recruit London is delivered in partnership in the West End by Cross River Partnership, Westminster City Council, The Crown Estate, New West End Company, Capco Covent Garden and the Department for Work and Pensions.

Referred by a resident who also gained employment through the project, Monika attended interview technique sessions and role focused workshops with the NWEC Workplace Coordinator, Isabelle, to boost her confidence and enhance her employability skills.

NWEC Workplace Coordinator Isabelle was working on behalf of The Clubhouse, a prestigious business members club to help them recruit. She spotted that Monika would be a great fit for the business, and put her forward for interview with them. After her interview and a trial at their Mayfair branch, she was offered a role as Front of House Assistant, with a starting salary of £24,000 p/a.

New funding has been released which would enable Cross River Partnership to build on the success of our Recruit London initiative. The European Social Fund and Skills Funding Agency’s Sector Approaches aims to support skills development, job readiness and pre-apprenticeship training for unemployed groups in priority sectors.

Cross River Partnership plans to lead a funding application for Retail, Tourism and Hospitality in central and south London. Through the project we would provide a range of support and training to unemployed and economically inactive residents and work closely with employers to broker candidates into work and apprenticeships. If you would like to support our application or become part of it, please contact Employability Coordinator Elizabeth Harris on eharris@westminster.gov.uk.

If successful, we will support 499 people into work and 199 into apprenticeships, and help them to sustain in work for 26 weeks. Applications are due early July, and the successful applicant will be announced in September 16.

Archives: News Articles

London Mayor and Air Quality

Estates Gazette Awards 2016

London is open

Brexit and CRP

CRP is recruiting!

A flying start for Freight TAILS in Suceava, Romania

New FREVUE partner BREYTNER deploys 19 tonne electric trucks in Rotterdam

‘Into Work’ across nine central London boroughs

Job results for Recruit London

New Funding Released