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Recruit London Workplace Coordinator Isabelle Benard was shortlisted at the “Putting something back” category Mayfair & St James Community Awards. This award celebrates an organisation or person that has benefitted the local community through their actions. She was nominated for “her tenacity and willingness to go above and beyond for her candidates and employers. She works tirelessly in the local community and has made strong relationships with employers, candidates and local partners.”

The ceremony, held on 26^th January, was hosted by Richard E Grant at The Dorchester. The awards were judged by a panel including The Wolseley restaurateur Jeremy King, GQ Editor-in-Chief Dylan Jones, Fortnum’s CEO Ewan Venters, designer Amanda Wakeley, lawyer and local entrepreneur Nancy Dell’Olio, and writer and explorer Levison Wood.

Isabelle is based at the New West End Company and works as part of the Recruit London initiative which works closely with employers to help them recruit, in order to help local job seekers back to work. The initiative is managed by Cross River Partnership and run in partnership with the New West End Company, The Crown Estate, Capital & Counties CG Ltd and Westminster City Council.

For more information contact Isabelle Benard on ibenard@westminster.gov.uk or 07827980980

On Thursday 28th January 2016, Capco CG hosted a breakfast event at the Ivy Market Grill encourage their commercial occupiers to participate in Cross River Partnership’s Recruit London initiative. The event celebrated Recruit London’s achievements in helping local job seekers into work in Covent Garden and introduced Benjamin Laryea, Capco’s first dedicated Workplace Coordinator. The Covent Garden community was encouraged to make use of the free service on offer to help them fill their job vacancies with local talent.

Attendees heard from Councillor Daniel Astaire (Cabinet Member for Housing, Regeneration Business and Economic Development), Michele Simon (Head of Operations – Capco CG) and Elizabeth Harris (Employability Coordinator – Cross River Partnership). Attendees included Oasis, Sunglass Hut/Rayban, Miller Harris, Sandro, Club Monaco, Shake Shack, Punch and Judy, The Ivy Group, Maxwell Group, London Theatre Museum, Crème de la Crepe & CG Restaurants.

The breakfast was a great success and has opened up many possibilities for employment with a range of fantastic roles within the Covent Garden area, continuing Recruit London’s great work within the area.

For more information contact Benjamin Laryea on blaryea@westminster.gov.uk or 07940 025 000

Recruit London is run in partnership by Cross River Partnership, Westminster City Council, Capital & Counties CG Ltd, The Crown Estate, New West End Company and the Department of Work and Pensions.

Supported by £869k from the Mayor’s High Street Fund and £380k of Lambeth Council investment, improvement works have started on the iconic and much loved Electric Avenue in Brixton.

Programme managed by CRP Place Making Project Manager, Owain Jones, working for Lambeth’s Regeneration Team, the investment will deliver a much improved environment for the street market, shops, shoppers and local residents, boosting trade, making it easier for local people to shop and increasing visitors to the town centre.

The improvements include new granite paving throughout, as well as improved street lighting, signage and drainage. New power supply, water points and hand held electronic payment systems will be provided for market traders.

By moving stalls to the centre of the street, market traders will also enjoy larger pitches and trading areas. Alongside the removal of the bollards and other street clutter, this will help pedestrian flow and should make it easier for elderly, disabled people, and those with young children, to move along the street.

The improvement works will be delivered in two phases to June 2016 to allow the street market to remain open throughout construction. Opening hours are as normal, Monday to Saturday 8am – 6pm, except on Wednesday when the market closes early at 2pm.

To find out more visit the Future Brixton website.

Following on from the successfully piloted behaviour change intervention by the City of London Corporation, CRP’s Clean Air Better Business has commissioned Global Action Plan to develop a business focussed intervention to reduce emissions from traffic idling, build capacity amongst our BID/Local Authority partners to take action, and create the links for drivers between their behaviour and air pollution.

Opportunity:

This will be a larger scale intervention creating a greater impact amongst CRP partners to encourage them to take action on idling in identified hot-spots within their areas. We aim to train up to 100 change-makers across Central London who will then participate in 2 coordinated ‘Clean Air Action Days’. Businesses within each participating BID can get involved.

Key Dates:

Webinar to brief and train up BID/Local Authority leads – 2^nd February 2016
Training of 100 Change makers – week commencing 29^th February 2016
2 Clean Air Action Days – week commencing 7^th March 2016

The CABB Clean Air Action Days, will be supported with key messages, re-usable branding, templates, materials e.g. high vis jackets for the change-makers to increase visibility, press releases and social media support.

Interested parties should contact CRP Air Quality Champion – Uto Patrick for more information.

The CRP FREVUE project team has initiated discussions with the truck manufacturer EMOSS to explore how their expertise in electric mobility could contribute to the project. With 62 electric trucks driving across Europe, including the UK, EMOSS is one of the very few providers of currently available fully electric trucks of up to 65 tonnes.

EMOSS is already involved in FREVUE in their role of vehicle supplier of the 18 tonne Heineken trucks in Rotterdam. As this category of large electric freight vehicles of above 7.5 tonnes is currently underrepresented in the project, data from additional EMOSS trucks could provide very valuable information.

Based in The Netherlands, EMOSS is a company with 25 employees in R&D, production and sales. They supply electric buses and trucks and manufacture electric drivetrains, charging infrastructure and battery systems. In addition, EMOSS offer software development.

The FREVUE (Freight Electric Vehicles in Urban Europe) project is an urban e-mobility project supported by the European Commission.

For questions or comments, please contact the FREVUE Co-ordinator, Tanja Dalle-Muenchmeyer, on tdmuenchmeyer@westminster.co.uk

http://frevue.eu/

CRP’s Clean Air Better Business programme continues to offer free advice and tools for organisations looking at Delivery and Servicing Plan options.

With more flexible working becoming the norm, organisations are now receiving a large amount of deliveries that are non-work related. Workers are increasingly having items delivered to their workplaces to avoid missed home deliveries.

No one likes missing a delivery at home, but having your online shopping sent to your workplace increases congestion and emissions in Central London. There are lots of other options that have been explored as part of the CABB programme, to ensure you don’t miss a delivery again whilst also improving the environment and safety of our streets within central London.

We have assembled 2 information leaflets targeted at staff and for businesses demonstrating how to send your deliveries to convenient collection points.

1. Personal delivery -Business option
2. Personal delivery- Staff option

A recent report titled ‘Up in the Air‘ by the Environmental Research Group at King’s and Policy Exchange reveals that 1/8 of London has NO2 air pollution levels above legal limits.

The report looked at calculations of the health impacts associated with air pollution in the capital as well as an investigation into the link between air pollution and wider deprivation in London. It highlighted some staggering numbers including the numbers of school children and workers in London exposed to unhealthy levels of NO2 that is linked to respiratory infections and exacerbates asthma.

We’ve pulled out the numbers for the CRP partners below to emphasis the need to continue working together on programmes such as Clean Air Better Businesses which identifies activities and interventions to address poor air quality in central London.

To view the map of exposure click here.

On Thursday 19^th November 2015, CRP’s Recruit London initiative held a successful ‘Supporting Local Talent’ event to celebrate the work of our new Specialist Workplace Coordinator Sylvia Kankasa, and encourage local businesses to offer employment opportunities to job seekers with disabilities and health conditions.

The event was hosted by Councillor Rachael Robathan, Cabinet Member for Adults and Public Health, and Councillor Iain Bott, Deputy Cabinet Member for Adults and Public Health from Westminster City Council. Attendees included Aqua Restaurant Group, Debenhams, The Crown Estate, Shake Shack, Hilton Hotels, Gallowglass Security LLP and St Christopher’s Place.

We were delighted to generate over 36 pledges, ranging from employers promising to host workplace visits to working with us to’ job carve’ vacancies to suit a wider range of candidates. To get involved please email: skankasa@westminster.gov.uk

Councillor Bott interviewed a Recruit London candidate who has faced barriers to work, and offered a wonderful insight into a highly skilled individual with a huge amount to offer, but just who needed adjustments or support in the recruitment process. Sardia, from Double Tree by Hilton, spoken about why engaging in this work benefitted their business. Helen Macfarlane, from the Business Disability Forum, spoke about why it makes good business sense to consider disability as a core part of business, and support and employ local skilled candidates from a diverse pool.

Businesses also left with information on how they can make adjustments in the workplace to enable them to become ‘Disability Confident’, and provided access grant funding to support their employees via Access to Work.

The event was a huge success and is just the beginning of what we are sure will be a successful project to create opportunities for local people from the widest possible pool of local talent. We are working with attendees to secure opportunities for Westminster’s residents.

This month has seen the first Westminster residents starting work in the Covent Garden area, as a result of Benjamin Laryea’s work through our Recruit London initiative. Ben joined Cross River Partnership in October and is a Workplace Coordinator based within property company Capital & Counties CG Ltd (Capco) who link him with their Covent Garden occupiers.

Ben has been working closely with Paperchase to help them recruit for their Christmas Sales Assistant roles and has delivered his first successful job outcomes in the Covent Garden area. Ben promoted roles to our partner network inviting Jobcentre Plus, City West Homes and the Local Employment Services Team to put forward candidates. Ben selected six Westminster job-seekers who were well-matched to the brand and jobs available, and provided training and support to prepare them for the roles. Ben arranged direct interviews with the Store Manager.

Four out of the six candidates were successful and within a week, they had completed their induction and started in store – they will receive their first pay-check before Christmas. They will continue to receive support for six months to help them do well in their new jobs, and Ben will continue to work with the other two candidates to help find them alternative roles. This adds to the 1,200 residents that Recruit London have already supported into work.

The Recruit London project is also currently recruiting for more jobs in the Covent Garden area: Sales Assistant jobs at Miller Harris; Stylist and Stockroom roles at Jo Malone; and Bar staff, Waiters/Waitresses at The Famous Punch and Judy. Roles are open to Westminster residents who are currently out of work. Contact Ben Laryea at blaryea@westminster.gov.uk for more information.

CRP are currently recruiting to the following two positions:

– A Business Engagement Project Manager to manage and deliver a range of business facing projects which will deliver outcomes in central London across four main areas: sustained employment opportunities, air quality and carbon reduction, economic growth and prosperity and making places that work. Projects include working with businesses to support and encourage them to offer family-friendly opportunities, and encouraging businesses to carry out Delivery Servicing Plans. The closing date for the role is 10th December. Further details can be obtained here: https://jobs.westminster.gov.uk/vacancy/project-manager-246065.html

– A Workplace Co-ordinator to specifically work with Lambeth residents to deliver a Jobcentre Plus Flexible Support Fund project whilst also contributing to the wider Recruit London team. Workplace Co-ordinators engage directly with employers to access their vacancies and support, train, and screen job seekers to help them into the roles available. The closing date for this role is 3rd January 2016. Further details can be obtained here: https://jobs.westminster.gov.uk/vacancy/workplace-coordinator-246496.html

Archives: News Articles

Recruit London Workplace Coordinator Shortlisted

Capco Breakfast Event

Brixton’s Electric Avenue – Improvements Started

CABB Clean Air Action Days

CRP’s FREVUE and EMOSS

CABB Delivery Servicing Plans – Tackling Personal Deliveries

Air Quality exposure of central London workers & school children

Supporting Local Talent event – 36 pledges received

CAPCO and CRP: Recruit London Delivery

CRP is recruiting!