Heart of London were successfully re-elected on 24 March for another term. Huge congratulations to the whole Heart of London team! 92% of businesses in the Piccadilly, St James’s and Leicester Square areas voted in favour. CRP looks forward to continuing to work together with Heart of London on delivering business-facing projects, such as Recruit London.
CRP is very pleased to welcome its newest member to the partnership – Hatton Garden BID. Hatton Garden BID becomes the 18th central London BID partner to join CRP. Hatton Garden is particularly looking forward to sharing best practice and learning with the other CRP partner BIDs, as well as benefitting from relationships with other CRP partners, including Local Authorities, Transport for London and the Greater London Authority.
For further information please contact Hatton Garden BID.
CRP has updated its strapline to better reflect the range of work that it is currently delivering with and for our public and private sector partners: Delivering London’s Future Together.
The strapline was selected following an intensive brainstorming session by the whole CRP team. The winning submission was dreamt up by CRP’s Jane Overington (pictured). Well done Jane!
CRP is very proud to present its annual Business Plan for the year starting 1 April. You can see the Business Plan here.
The Business Plan is currently being printed ready for mailing to CRP Board members. Please do contact us if you would also like a hard copy.
The Business Plan has been designed foe CRP by agency Hudson Fuggle, overseen by CRP’s Charlotte Healy.
We are extremely pleased to be delivering £4 million of worthwhile project interventions with and for all of our public and private sector partners.
Last week saw the launch of the CRP-developed West End Partnership Deliveries & Servicing site. This website has links to all of the fantastic projects that members of the West End Partnership Deliveries & Servicing Group are delivering, and a map showing what is happening across the West End.
This website and map are going to be used to identify areas where the partnership needs to direct efforts when developing a Deliveries & Servicing Plan for the West End.
The website is available at https://crossriverpartnership.org/WEPFreight/
For further information contact Vicky Keeble vickykeeble@crossriverpartnership.org
Last month Recruit London hosted an intensive employment–focused workshop with the aim of helping our candidates into employment. The whole day event was packed with fun and energetic activities and great training sessions to motivate, inspire and prepare our candidates for work in customer services.
Registration began at 9:00am. Twenty candidates were given packs which included feedback cards, helpful tips and advice on interviews and assessment centres as well as challenging game of people bingo!
In the morning the group attended Recruit London led sessions such as: ‘Style Briefing’, ‘Group CV Challenge’ and an ‘Effective Personal Marketing’ workshop. After eating lunch together candidates each had panel interviews to practice their technique and put into practice what they had learnt in the morning sessions. Crucially, after this, each candidate received individual feedback regarding their performance on the day and actions for their next steps. Throughout the day the Recruit London team were speaking to candidates about live vacancies to support them to move quickly into work.
We were fortunate to be joined for the day by the Royal Scottish Regiment who assisted with the group sessions and provided invaluable feedback for candidates, offering constructive comments, encouragement and motivation as well as photo opportunities!
Feedback from the day was incredibly positive with candidates requesting more events like this and telling us that they had learnt a lot and felt closer to finding work. One candidate described the day as a ‘great experience’. We whole-heartedly agree and we are looking forward to running the next one to help another batch of candidates into work!
For more information about Recruit London, or if you would like to be involved in events like this, please contact: Anna Elliott, Recruit London Programme Manager, aelliott@westminster.gov.uk 07875 765 751
CRP are thrilled to be working with Westminster City Council and the Marylebone Low Emission Neighbourhood (LEN) stakeholders including Baker Street Quarter Partnership; Marble Arch BID; New West End Company; Howard De Walden and the Portman Estate to design and implement the Marylebone LEN Delivery & Servicing Programme.
Over the next year, CRP will be rolling out www.clickcollect.london and the West End Buyers Club (www.westendbuyersclub.london), among other initiatives, to businesses within the Marylebone LEN; engaging them to change their purchasing behaviours and reduce the number of freight vehicles entering the area.
For more information on the Marylebone LEN Delivery & Servicing Programme contact Vicky Keeble vickykeeble@crossriverpartnership.org
Six months ago I started a work placement with Cross River Partnership (CRP) through the National Graduate Development Programme. Like most people, I was completely unaware of the amount and scale of work that CRP are involved in. From building bridges (literally) and green walls to supporting local people into employment and improving London’s toxic air, CRP really does contribute in so many ways to delivering London’s future.
Over the past few months I have worked with the New West End Company to deliver their air quality strategy, including developing a preferred supplier scheme website, the West End Buyers Club. I have also managed to squeeze in some time to observe deliveries and interview businesses along Oxford Street, help to create a new branding image for CRP, including the development of their new business plan, and have witnessed so many more incredible CRP projects being carried out.
Now my work placement with CRP is coming to a close and I’m moving on to another team. I am very grateful to the CRP team for how welcoming and supportive they have been throughout my time with them and for the many opportunities that have been presented to me. I look forward to following what CRP will achieve in the future!
Charlotte Healy, National Graduate Development Trainee
With Kings College London, CRP has enabled seven partner BIDs and boroughs to undertake air quality monitoring to support the promotion and development of clean air ‘wellbeing walks.’
This work builds on London’s first ever wellbeing walk between Euston and Kings Cross stations, which was delivered by Urban Partners through CRP’s Clean Air Better Business programme.
Monitoring on the original wellbeing walk showed that levels of air pollution along the clean air route were less than half that of the more obvious walking route, along Euston Road.
We look forward to receiving the results of the recent monitoring and developing additional wellbeing walks across central London.
For further information please contact CRP’s Air Quality Project Manager Brendon Harper.
On 22-23 March over 250 representatives from government, industry, academia and other transport organisations gathered in Brussels for the 5th edition of the E-mobility Stakeholder Forum. The FREVUE project co-organised the event together with ZeEUS (on buses) and I-CVUE (on passenger cars).
The FREVUE Coordinator, Tanja Dalle-Muenchmeyer, presented first results on the technical suitability of electric freight vehicles as well as their economic and environmental impact. The outlook for electric freight vehicles is positive with some of the big players entering the market (e.g MAN and Daimler), but still lagging behind electric cars and buses. The Forum is a unique occasion to discuss, learn and cooperate on common issues for all e-mobility modes such as shared charging infrastructure, financing mechanisms and procurement.
Further information about the 5th European E-mobility Stakeholder Forum and all presentation can be found here http://frevue.eu/events-home/.
For more information about FREVUE, please contact the project coordinator Tanja Dalle-Muenchmeyer on tdmuenchmeyer@westminster.gov.uk.
