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CRP is pleased to welcome two new members of staff. Operations Manager Carol Quamina brings a wealth of public and private sector economic development experience to CRP and will be overseeing all of CRP’s project, finances, contracts and claims.

Uto Patrick starts in the newly formed and funded role of Air Quality Champion. Uto will be working with CRP’s Place Making Project Manager Owain Jones and CRP Project Partners on The Mayor’s Air

Quality Fund ‘Clean Air Better Business’ (CABB).

A new employment programme ‘Into Work’ was launched last week. The programme aims to help 800 Central London residents into jobs was launched at London Councils by Councillor George Gillon, City of London Corporation member and co-Chair of Cross River Partnership’s Board. The programme will provide customised pre-employment training and support in order to secure work in construction, health and social care, hospitality, retail, facilities management and utilities. Into Work was developed by Central London Forward, funded by the City of London Corporation charitable fund City Bridge Trust and is being managed by Cross River Partnership.

Blinds specialist ‘Bright-A-Blind Ltd’ have secured a £38,000 contract thanks to Supply Cross River 2. Islington-based Bright-A-Blind Ltd were put forward by the SXR2 buyer engagement team to Hong Kong owned Dorsett Hotels, who were opening their first hotel in Shepherds Bush Green. The new hotel is in a listed building and requires bespoke products.

Bright-A-Blind Ltd Senior Account Manager Matthew Cleveland said, ‘we are very grateful to Supply Cross River 2 for helping us win this contract and also introducing us into a new market.’ Bright-A-Blind Ltd joined the SXR2 programme last year and has attended a range of events as well as receiving one-on-one advice.

Award winning designer and youth ambassador Wayne Hemmingway MBE delivered the key note address at CRP’s Sustainable Urban Markets workshop last week. Hemmingway, the co-founder of Red or Dead and Hemmingway Design, spoke to an audience of street and covered markets stakeholders and practitioners on the role of markets in providing opportunity, animating high streets and creating place. Deliberately provocative, he decried the modern trend of disparaging ‘hipsters’, emphasising their role in gentrifying areas, and the importance of curating markets to meet customer demand and create a market’s identity.

Wayne’s address preceded delegates breaking into groups to discuss and refine proposals for maximising the potential of street and covered markets proposed by the SUM project group, co-chaired by Helen Santer of Waterloo Quarter BID and Will Fulford of Camden Lock market. Final draft proposals will be consulted on through the summer, prior to being launched as a London Local Action Plan for markets in September. For more information on the project please click here. – See more at: https://www.crossriverpartnership.org/news#sthash.4jcOBT8Q.dpuf

Last month saw the re-birth of the freight train thanks to CRP’s LaMiLo. A specially-commissioned train carrying tonnes of supplies from leading UK retailers/manufacturers Staples and Bristan was transported from Rugby to London Euston during the night of 4/5th June. The goods were sorted in a special operation on the platform side and then delivered to hundreds of stores and suppliers throughout the capital by a fleet of electric and zero-emission delivery vehicles.

Future adoption of such rail services would significantly cut carbon emissions, with every tonne moved by rail saving around three-quarters of the emissions per kilometre compared to road haulage. The trial was run by TNT Express in conjunction with Colas Rail, Network Rail and Transport for London.

Monday saw the 101st Tour De France make its way from Cambridge to Central London. The esteemed event travelled its way through a number of boroughs including: Redbridge, Waltham Forest, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, City, Westminster, Lambeth and Southwark. The group finished its London stage in Westminster outside Buckingham Palace in front of a huge London crowd. The event has been marked by a number of activities throughout the capital, including the illumination of The Golden Jubilee Bridges, one of CRP’s first projects. – See more at: https://www.crossriverpartnership.org/news#sthash.4jcOBT8Q.dpuf

Last month saw the 4th Electric Vehicles EVUE II meeting, which was hosted by the Shadow Lead Partner of the project in Katowice, Poland. The meeting ran over two days, with sessions run by URBACT, partners from Katowice, URBACT Lead Expert Philip Stein and Cross River Partnership’s Lisa Hadden and Caroline Carsey. The meeting also provided the EVUE partners the opportunity to visit Komel (Institute of Electrical Drives and Machines) to see first hand the design, development and production of electric engines. EVUE II focuses on the development of integrated, sustainable strategies and dynamic leadership techniques for cities to promote the use of electric vehicles. – See more at: https://www.crossriverpartnership.org/news#sthash.4jcOBT8Q.dpuf

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