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27th June, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises day, was a time to reflect on how SMEs have positively contributed to our local communities. Throughout projects at CRP, we have worked closely with businesses of all sizes.

During the CAV2 project, CRP worked with SME cargo bike provider ecofleet, in their local borough in Wandsworth. Parcels Not Pollution, delivering in Shepherds Bush during the pandemic, involves many different SMEs, rising to the challenges of air pollution in London to help provide alternative solutions for all. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many businesses have adapted to new ways to deliver their products, an example being the cargo bike on Pavilion Road, utilised by London Cheesemongers. Brixton businesses Abdul’s Fruit and Veg and Healthy Eaters have switched to EV to ensure they are contributing to cleaner air in their local community. We are looking forward to carrying on working with SMEs in CAV3, so if you are a small enterprise looking to improve local air quality in your community please get in touch! At CRP we promote the work of SMEs like Planet Minimal & Elysia Catering, who are promoting cleaner methods of delivery. Check out these businesses on the CRP Clean Air Villages Directory!

22^nd June marked 72 years since the HMT Empire Windrush landed at Tilbury Docks, East London in 1948. The Westminster City C ouncil‘s BAME Network celebrated the event with a virtual event of poetry, music and personal stories. The event explored some amazing personal life stories of this generation, such as Sam King, the first Black Mayor of Southwark. It is inspirational how this generation of migrants still has so much influence in our cities and culture in Britain today. The influence of Caribbean culture can also be seen in the food, music and art we consume. They also rebuilt institutions such as the NHS which we have been especially indebted to during the COVID-19 crisis.

Whilst they fought against and faced many prejudices and discrimination, it is important to note that more needs to be done in the fight against institutional racism. We should be proud of their achievements and embrace their contributions to British culture, and aim to continue to promote inclusion and equality though our work. Thank you to the Westminster City C ouncil BAME network for hosting this celebration.

For further information, please contact CRP Project Support Assistant Chioma Wuche: chiomawuche@crossriverpartnership.org

CRP’s Smart Electric Urban Logistics (SEUL) project continues to be celebrated for its innovation and achievements in using technology for good. It has won prizes in the Global Good Awards in both the ‘Tech for Good’ and ‘Innovation’ categories following the project’s recent conclusion. SEUL has already helped deliver air quality improvements through reduced emissions from electric trucks in central London. We look forward to attending the delayed awards ceremony, either virtually or in person, later this year!

SEUL is also the platform for our latest innovation project, EV Fleet-centred Local Energy System, working with UPS, UK Power Networks Services and Moixa, with funding from UKRI Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.

For further information, please contact CRP Project Manager Tom-Linton Smith: tomlintonsmith@crossriverpartnership.org

CRP is extremely honoured to announce Midtown BID joining its Board as a partnership member alongside the existing 18 Business Improvement Districts, 8 Local Authorities and other strategic agencies involved with supporting London out of lockdown, safely and sustainably. Midtown BID will deliver projects with CRP on healthy walking, cycling, working and living, as we emerge from the first phase of the COVID-19 crisis. Midtown BID is already developing their Covid-19:RISE strategy to work not just towards recovery, but with the purpose of renewing the district longer term as we all work towards creating a successful future together. Midtown’s footprint extends into the London Borough of Camden and the London Borough of Islington, 2 of CRP’s existing 8 Local Authority members.

“Midtown BID are delighted to be joining the Cross River Partnership and the alignment of many shared goals, initiatives and objectives. We look forward to being an active participant in both current and future projects as we all work towards establishing a renewed and reinvigorated city.”
Debbie Akehurst, Interim Chief Executive Officer, Midtown BID.

Register your place at our next LiveShare session, where we will be joined by Camden Town Unlimited and London & Partners for an informative discussion on the successes and challenges of re-opening the High Street two weeks after the easing of lockdown in England. We look forward to seeing you there!

Missed our last LiveShare event? Watch the whole discussion here, with contributions from Transport for London and Sustrans on active travel and its essential role as we emerge from lockdown.

This week provides CRP with an opportunity to celebrate sustainable travel, even more so than we usually do! Throughout our Healthy Streets Everyday programme, we are working with our partners to encourage and share knowledge of improving streetscapes for more pedestrian and cycle-friendly neighbourhoods and streets and reducing car-free behaviour, with a focus on School Streets to encourage clean air and active travel for children.

Clean Air V illages relies on engaging with businesses to inspire sustainable behavioural changes and implement new low or zero emission delivery methods. Introductions of cargo bikes have encouraged zero emission deliveries for businesses such as Cooper’s Bakehouse. CAV3 will build on this by continuing to work with businesses, but additionally working with hospitals (where feasible) and communities.

Through the Clean Air Thames project, CRP are retrofitting freight and passenger vessels along the Thames to reduce local pollutants. These busy waterways produce pollution through these vessels within the heart of London, so promoting greener initiatives can have a significant impact on London’s air quality. CRP has encouraged collaboration and knowledge through the management and delivery of CLSRTP. The team have supported the production of guidance documents on cycling logistics and the Mayor’s Vision Zero plans, and installed dual-purpose cycle stations to promote active travel.

Meanwhile, EFLES showcases some innovative technology as CRP works with partners to assess how technology solutions, such as AI software, can deliver London’s aims to improve air quality, unlock job opportunities and deliver energy, cost and time savings for businesses in the UK and internationally.

CRP was honoured to support Westminster City Council’s staff virtual 8.46 minutes of silence for racial justice at 16.55 on 9^th June 2020. CRP is fully committed to working with its partners, funders, suppliers and staff to tackle racial equality, on a continual basis.

Please contact CRP’s Director Susannah Wilks if you would like to talk about this further.

Across London, lighting plays a crucial role in social, cultural, and environmental capacities, from cultivating new civic spaces such as the Illuminated River Project, to its potential impacts on mental health and wellbeing, and the need for new energy saving lighting infrastructure. Good lighting in London is essential for a busy, twenty-four-hour city. Millions of people use London’s streets, open spaces and transport networks after dark.

On 18th June at an online event, join expert speakers Stephen Bayley, Mark Major (Speirs + Major), Don Slater (London School of Economics), Mathew Frith (London Wildlife Trust) and Alex Lifschutz (Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands), to discuss creating a more coherent night-time experience of London. More information here.

From 22nd to 28th June, the UK’s lung health awareness week is taking place, which is all the more important this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, together with the fact that the UK has the 4th highest mortality rate from lung disease in Europe. Reduction in air pollution increases lung health, and according to the British Lung Foundation, two million people in the UK with respiratory conditions such as asthma have experienced reduced symptoms due to cleaner air during the coronavirus lockdown. CRP are proud to run projects which positively impact on lung health through the reduction of air pollution. Clean Air Villages 3 activities are estimated to reduce emissions by 86.7kg of NOx, and 24,171kg of CO2.

For further information, please contact CRP’s Communications & Business Development Manager Joshua West.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, CRP in collaboration with Defra, the funder of its Clean Air Villages 3 (CAV3) project, has managed to secure a more flexible approach to project delivery. The CRP team is actively working with project partners and local communities to identify suitable sustainable solutions to improve air quality which can be implemented post-lockdown.

For further information, please contact CRP Operations Manager Carol Quamina.

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