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Park life: ensuring green spaces remain a hit with Londoners

18th July 2017 / Posted by CRP Team

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

 

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

17th July 2017 / Posted by CRP Team

Councillor Robert Davis, Deputy Leader of Westminster City Council, hosted a launch event for the Westminster Employment Service on 13th 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

FREVUE Articles in Freight in the City

17th July 2017 / Posted by CRP Team

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.

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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.

West End Open for Business

17th July 2017 / Posted by CRP Team

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

Coming Soon …. Focus on Freight….

17th July 2017 / Posted by CRP Team

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…’

  1. Stakeholders
  2. Data
  3. Integration
  4. 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.

Marylebone Low Emission Neighbourhood

17th July 2017 / Posted by CRP Team

CRP are managing the delivery of the Marylebone Low Emission Neighbourhood (LEN) programme on a part-time interim basis, on behalf of Westminster City Council and its partners.  We are pleased to be supported by the secondment of Andy Martin, kindly provided to the LEN by TfL for one day a week.

CRP are thrilled to be involved with this exciting Mayors’ Air Quality Funded programme, which is increasing provision of electric vehicle charging; improving public realm; greening; raising awareness and reducing the number of diesel vehicles coming to the area. The Marylebone LEN has recently been commended for a New London Award in the category of Wellbeing.    For information visit www.marylebonelen.org or contact Vicky Keeble vickykeeble@crossriverpartnership.org

CRP is also supporting the delivery and servicing programme in the LEN, and want to speak to businesses in the area. For more information contact Amandeep Kellay amandeepkellay@crossriverpartnership.org

West End Air Summit

17th July 2017 / Posted by CRP Team

On 28th June 2017 CRP delivered the West End Air Summit on behalf of four Business Improvement Districts – Baker Street Quarter Partnership; Heart of London Business Alliance, Marble Arch London and New West End Company.  These BIDs are all collaborating to upscale the impact of their efforts in improving air quality in London’s West End.

The event launched this joined up approach, including their ongoing commitment to the West End Buyers Club www.westendbuyersclub.london, a CRP-designed shared suppliers scheme saving businesses money and tackling air pollution.

Jace Tyrrell, Chief Executive, New West End Company; Shirley Rodrigues, Deputy Mayor for Environment, Greater London Authority; Penny Alexander, Chief Executive, Baker Street Quarter Partnership; and Councillor Robert Davis MBE Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Business, Culture and Heritage, Westminster City Council all provided insight into what their organisations are doing to support cleaner air in London.  In particular, the Marylebone Low Emission Neighbourhood (www.marylebonelen.org) is also helping to bring many of the stakeholders together to deliver on multiple aspects of air quality.

For information on West End Air contact Vicky Keeble vickykeeble@crossriverpartnership.org

CRP is recruiting!

12th July 2017 / Posted by CRP Team

We are currently looking for a proactive Workplace Co-ordinator to join our team to work alongside our partner, Heart of London Business Alliance, to support unemployed people into sustainable work.

To find out more about this role and to apply, please click on link below:

https://jobs.westminster.gov.uk/vacancy/holba-workplace-coordinator-319239.html

Family Friendly Award Sponsorship

6th July 2017 / Posted by CRP Team

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CRP is proud to announce that we will be sponsoring ‘The Best for Flexible Working Initiative Award’ at the Working Families Top Employers Special Awards which takes place on 6th July.

The Special Awards cover all aspects of flexible/family friendly working, how employers can support the work-life balance of their staff and highlight the benefits of an agile workforce.

Last year CRP’s Recruit London project launched its Family Friendly toolkit, which highlights good practice in family friendly employment policy and provides a checklist for businesses to carry out a self-assessment on family friendly policies.

For more information please contact Recruit London Programme Manager Anna Elliott.

The Illuminated River

6th July 2017 / Posted by CRP Team

 

CRP was delighted to attend the Worshipful Company of Lightmongers’ Annual Lecture, ‘Lighting London’s Bridges’, by Leo Villareal, on 14th June.

The lecture took place at Tallow Chandlers’ Hall.  There was a warm welcome from Master Lightmonger Mike Simpson. Leo was then introduced by Hannah Rothschild, Chair of the Illuminated River Foundation, to talk about his scheme ‘Current’, a kinetic, lighting artwork that will illuminate and unify central London’s bridges.

For more information about the project please visit www.illuminatedriver.london.

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