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Cross River Partnership is very pleased to announce that Faheem Qureshi has been promoted by The Crown Estate, and from 1 April 2015 he will be working nationally across The Crown Estate’s holdings to roll-out the successful Workplace Co-ordinator model. We wish Faheem all the very best in his new role! Cross River Partnership will continue to work closely with The Crown Estate and other public and private sector partners to deliver the Recruit London Workplace Co-ordinator model in London.

Cyrus, aged 27 from Westminster, had been out of work for five months when he was supported into work as a Commis Chef at Saint George’s Hotel by Recruit London Workplace Coordinator Isabelle Benard. His career really took off and he was promoted to Junior Sous Chef within the first three months, and is already in training for a Sous Chef position. Cyrus said “I never thought that I would be able to get a promotion so fast. Isabelle did state how fast it was to move up the ladder. I really enjoy the job and the people I work with. I am glad that Isabelle is only a ‘phone call away….having this job has changed my personal life too, I feel more confident with friends and family”.

Cross River Partnership has recruited a new project support assistant for Recruit London using the same recruitment methods we promote to businesses. We cast the net far and wide to find the right candidate and Nikoletta Gjergji was referred by the Cardinal Hume Centre. She is a Westminster resident with a degree and experience working in graphic design, but was out of work at the time. She is a fantastic addition to the Recruit London team and will help Workplace Co-ordinators provide an even better service to businesses and candidates.

The presentations from the 3rd E-mobility Stakeholder Forum are now available to download. Please click on the links below to view the presentations from each session.

Operational workshops

Business Models

Integrating Urban Mobility

The Path to 2030

Policy workshops

Selling the new reality

Fact from Fiction

How to reach the goal

Technical workshops

Making the Connection

More than a Connector

More than just charging a battery

Green eMotion session

Green eMotion plenary

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

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