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This July London’s Waterloo celebrates a month of food with a packed programme of exciting events hosted by the area’s vibrant mix of food and drink venues. Waterloo’s top chefs, foodies and baristas will be revealing their secrets and techniques in a month of exclusive master classes, demos, talks, workshops and tasting sessions.

Waterloo Food Month is championed by We Are Waterloo BID and takes place at Lower Marsh and Granby Place – Waterloo’s new outdoor events space.

Find out what’s on here: wearewaterloo.co.uk/foodmonth

FitzPark located on Windmill Street in Fitzrovia is a temporary space which transforms a delivery bay into a ‘parklet’ containing seating and planters for public use.

The pop-up demonstrates how small spaces can be adapted to provide people friendly uses, promoting health and wellbeing through encouraging people to walk, cycle and spend more time outdoors.

The parklet aims to raise awareness about the benefits of urban greening and small scale and temporary public space improvements, which will hopefully inspire positive action towards creating healthy streets.

The project was delivered by The Fitzrova Partnership BID with support from LB Camden and Cross River Partnership, and funding through the Mayor’s Air Quality Fund.

To find out more get in touch with CRP’s Place Making Project Officer, Jane Overington janeoverington@crossriverpartnership.org

CRP attended the Top Employers for Working Families Special Awards, held on 6th July at Vintners’ Hall, London. The Top Employers for Working Families Special Awards showcase flexible and family friendly workplaces across the UK.

CRP sponsored the best flexible working initiative category. The award was presented by Anna Elliott (Recruit London Programme Manager) and Carol Quamina (CRP Operations Manager) to the category winner – Alexander Mann Solutions, a talent acquisition and management company who last year launched a global flexible working programme to increase the take-up and consistency of flexible working.

Further information about Working Families and other Top Employer award categories, winners and case studies can be found here: http://www.topemployersforworkingfamilies.org.uk/index.php/news/entry/the-top-employers-for-working-families-special-award-winners-are-unveiled.

The Good Growth Fund is Mayor Sadiq Khan’s new £70 million regeneration programme to support growth and community development in London.

Working with the London Economic Action Partnership (LEAP), the fund will support projects that are: inclusive, innovative and which demonstrate an outstanding approach to challenges faced across London.

Applications are now open and expressions of interests close on 4 September 2017. CRP is already working with partners on a potential collaborative application.

To find out more get in touch with CRP’s Project Manager, Brendon Harper brendonharper@crossriverpartnership.org, or Place Making Project Officer, Jane Overington janeoverington@crossriverpartnership.org

The draft Mayor’s Transport Strategy (MTS) is now out for consultation. The draft strategy uses the Healthy Streets Approach. This makes health and personal experience the priority as we plan our city. The Healthy Streets Approach will be applied to the whole transport system to help create:

– Healthy Streets and healthy people

– A good public transport experience

– New homes and jobs

Transport networks make cities work – connecting communities, opening up opportunities, and creating conditions for a prosperous economy. The draft MTS looks 25 years ahead to find ways to plan London’s growth.

Consultation closes on 2 October 2017.

To find out more get in touch with CRP’s Place Making Project Officer, Jane Overington janeoverington@crossriverpartnership.org

The London Assembly (LA) holds the Mayor to account and investigates issues that matter to Londoners. The LA has just released a number of recommendations as part of their Park life: ensuring green spaces remain a hit with Londoners report.

The report highlights that London is a green city. In fact almost half of it is classed as green space – including domestic gardens, public parks and sports fields. Green spaces provide areas to exercise and socialise, and provides space for London’s wildlife. But we need to find ways to economically sustain our city’s green spaces.

Amongst the recommendations are innovative ways to fund and manage London’s green spaces such as through trusts, and sponsorship.

To find out more get in touch with CRP’s Place Making Project Officer, Jane Overington janeoverington@crossriverpartnership.org

Councillor Robert Davis, Deputy Leader of Westminster City Council, hosted a launch event for the Westminster Employment Service on 13^th July 2017 at the House of St Barnabas (HOSB). Councillor Davis praised the Recruit London team for their tireless work to support local residents into work and their impressive results to date. Anna Elliott, CRP’s Recruit London Programme Manager, also spoke at the event to encourage businesses to use Recruit London to help them fill vacancies. Anna asked businesses to offer additional opportunities including tours of their businesses, mentoring or mock interviews for residents and work placements to help those with additional barriers.

The event attendees also heard from Sandra Schembri, Chief Encouragement Officer for HOSB and Stefan Georgescu, General Manager for Benugo. Finally, attendees heard from Erica Naidoo who is a beneficiary of the Westminster Employment Service, who inspired the crowd with her story and encouraged businesses to get more involved. There was a great buzz following the speeches and the Recruit London team are busy following up new contacts.

For further information please contact Anna Elliott, Recruit London Programme Manager: 020 7641 3523

Freight in the City, the central resource and platform for anyone involved in helping to make freight transportation as clean, safe and quiet as possible, attended the FREVUE Final Conference on 21 June 2017. Two articles have since been published on the Freight in the City website, one of the event itself and one on the FREVUE analysis on cost savings from reduced health impacts and abatements costs resulting from the deployment of electric freight vehicles.

FREVUE in Freight in the City

For more information, please see Freight in the City, www.frevue.eu or contact CRP’s FREVUE Coordinator Tanja Dalle-Muenchmeyer on tanjadallemuenchmeyer@crossriverpartnership.org. A short video providing an overview of the FREVUE project is available here.

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan launched the ‘West End: Everyone Welcome’ campaign, which has been supported by the Heart of London Business Alliance, New West End Company, Regent Street Association, Shaftsbury plc. and The Crown Estate. This tourism campaign will raise the global profile of the West End as a world class visitor destination, re-affirming the Mayor of London’s message that #londonisopen.

The campaign includes 374 flags on show across the West End until September, a fully integrated media programme and a campaign hub on the Visit London website www.visitlondon.com/westend promoting retail, leisure and culture offerings to the international and domestic database of over 2 million.

The launch video can be found here

The Freight TAILS network is producing a series of helpful ‘Focus On….’ reports that summarise the experiences and lessons learnt from across our network of 10 European cities in a number of key themes. The first four reports are ‘Focus on Urban Freight Transport and…’

Stakeholders
Data
Integration
Regulation & Enforcement’

These reports will be published at the end of the summer. Each report answers key questions associated with the theme such as… How can you engage stakeholders in urban freight transport management? … What kind of data is necessary? …. What do we mean by ‘integration’ in the context of urban freight transport?…. When is it most appropriate to use regulation to achieve change or are there alternatives? Each report then goes on to provide recommendations and a step by step process.

For more details please contact CRP’s Freight TAILS Project Manager Charlotte Knell.

Freight TAILS is a network of 10 European cities focused on improving the impact of urban freight transport. Freight TAILS is co-funded by ERDF through the URBACT III programme.

Archives: News Articles

It’s Waterloo Food month!

#FitzPark is on the ground

Top Employers for Working Families Awards

Good Growth Fund

Have your say on the draft Mayor’s Transport Strategy

Park life: ensuring green spaces remain a hit with Londoners

Recruit London play a key role at Westminster Employment Service Launch Event

FREVUE Articles in Freight in the City

West End Open for Business

Coming Soon …. Focus on Freight….