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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:

Strategic green infrastructure projects
London’s urban forest
Community Tree Planting and Green Space Grants

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:

Greener
Cleaner
Ready for the future

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!)

Site visits to the proposed locations for our LEN urban realm projects
Organising the judging of a parklet design competition with the University of Westminster
Developing the Marylebone LEN twitter page; follow us here https://twitter.com/MaryleboneLEN
Planting seeds at the play street with St Vincent’s Primary School on 10^th July
A Steering Group meeting; hearing about all the great work that the different stakeholders are delivering
Attending a #dontbeidle event, asking vehicles in Marylebone to turn their engines off while stationary.

It’s been an exciting few weeks, and we’re looking forward to coordinating the Luxborough Street Community Green Street on 22^nd September.

For more information about the Marylebone LEN contact vickykeeble@crossriverpartnership.org

Recruit London attended an event at Paddington Development Trust (PDT) on 9^th 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 4^th 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 2^nd 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.

The GLA are seeking applications from businesses and business-led groups (including BIDs) for funding to develop new Low Emission Neighbourhoods (LENs).

Business-led LENs will help make local areas more pleasant for customers and staff to walk and cycle in, as well as helping businesses to reduce their emissions and running costs.

See the GLA website for more information.

Anisha

Anisha George has joined CRP’s Deliver London team as a Business Engagement Officer. Anisha will be working on our deliverBEST programme, supporting businesses to make their deliveries more efficient and reduce their environmental impact. Prior to CRP Anisha worked at Green Alliance as a policy assistant. She has also worked in the renewable energy sector in Tanzania and Canada.

Contact Anisha at anishageorge@crossriverpartnership.org

CRP was delighted to attend the press launch of the London Borough of Culture on 30^th June 2017, hosted by Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London; Justine Simmons, Deputy Mayor for Culture and the Creative Industries; and Catherine McGuiness, Chairman, City of London Corporation.

The London Borough of Culture will highlight how culture can bring communities closer together and shine a spotlight on the distinctive character of each winning borough, giving Londoners a host of ambitious cultural events.

The competition is open to every one of the 32 boroughs in Greater London. Two winning boroughs will be named London Borough of Culture, one in 2019, one in 2020. Each winning borough will be awarded up to £1 million by the GLA.

Closing date 12 noon on 1^st December 2017.

CRP would like to wish all of its boroughs the very best of luck with their applications!

Find out more at www.london.gov.uk/boroughofculture.

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