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Clean Air Villages 2 Event Launch

11th June 2019 / Posted by CRP Team

All project funders for the Clean Air Villages 2 project have been invited to attend a launch event on Friday 14th June.  CRP secured funding from DEFRA’s Air Quality Grant Scheme 2019/20.  The event will be hosted by the London Borough of Lewisham, who are the lead authority on the project.

Match-funding partners include the London Boroughs of Lewisham, Camden, Hammersmith and Fulham, Lambeth, Wandsworth, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster City Council, Cadogan Estates and Euston Town BID.

The event will take place at the Honor Oak Park air quality supersite in Lewisham.

All seven participating London Boroughs have poor air quality. Delivery of goods and services is a major contributor to air pollution.  The Clean Air Villages 2 project will work with businesses to reduce their impact on local air quality.

For further information please contact CRP’s Kate Fenton.

Clean Air Villages 1 Business Case Studies

11th June 2019 / Posted by CRP Team

As the first year of the DEFRA-funded Clean Air Villages project has come to a close, CRP has been busy creating business case studies.  The ten case studies showcase an assortment of initiatives and organisations that are trialling or already doing great work to reduce the impact of their operations on local air quality, ranging from butchers in Brixton (London Borough of Lambeth) working together to consolidate their suppliers, to the Westway Trust (Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea) trialling e-cargo bikes for their last mile delivery.

The case studies provide valuable stories that CRP can use to inspire businesses and show them what they can do to improve air quality in the areas in which they operate.  These will be used as the Clean Air Villages project continues into its second year.

For further information please contact CRP’s Kate Fenton.

Funding Opportunity: Regenerating historic high streets – High Street Heritage Action Zone (HSHAZ) programme

29th May 2019 / Posted by CRP Team

The Expression of Interest phase of the High Street Heritage Action Zone (HSHAZ) programme has been launched, and will close on Friday 12th July. The EoI stage is a competitive process, only successful applications will then be asked to develop a full programme design.  Applications will  be accepted from any not-for-profit organisation (e.g. local authorities, charitable trusts, or other public sector organisations) and partnerships led by not-for profit organisations who can demonstrate capacity to deliver. If an application does not have the support of the local authority it will not be accepted.

A Cultural Programme, which is being designed by the Historic England in partnership with the National Lottery Heritage Fund, must be embedded with the application.  This Programme will:

  • revitalise high streets through cultural programmes, bringing more people and a wider range of people, and new activity, to the heart of communities, and raising aspirations
  • support greater use of high streets and increase dwell time
  • support people and places to thrive through cultural engagement, creating greater pride, sense of community and wellbeing
  • support local organisations, communities and stakeholders to sustain the benefits of the programme in the future

Delivery of this Cultural Programme is expected to be by local arts and culture based groups and organisations. Click here for further information on how to apply.

 

CRP is recruiting!

29th May 2019 / Posted by CRP Team

CRP is recruiting for an Air Quality Project Analysis Officer and a Communications & Business Development Officer   to join our team.

For further information about these two roles, please contact, CRP Operations Manager, Carol Quamina.

 

 

 

Greener City Fund

21st May 2019 / Posted by CRP Team

The GLA’s Community Tree Planting Grants are open for applications until 5pm on Monday 24 June 2019. Grants between £5,000 and £50,000 are available for projects to take place between September 2019 and March 2020. Further information on the application process here.

 

Learning at Work

20th May 2019 / Posted by CRP Team

CRP is committed to ongoing learning and development for its staff.  In conjunction with its accountable body, Westminster City Council it is promoting ‘Learning at Work’ week by providing a range of tailored workshops to provide staff with tips on how they can further develop and learn new skills in their chosen careers.

To further improve their writing skills, the team are all looking forward to attending an upcoming writing skills course to help everyone improve their report writing skills.

For further information please contact CRP’s Business Apprentice, Yasin Mahmood.

CRP Mayor’s Air Quality Fund Round 3 Applications

20th May 2019 / Posted by CRP Team

CRP has submitted two applications to the Mayor, Clean Air Thames, and Healthy Streets Everyday.

CRP is looking forward to hearing the outcomes of the applications in June 2019.  Watch this space!

Thank you to all of the 16 London boroughs, and the many other cross-sectoral partner organisations who have supported CRP’s applications.

For further information please contact CRP’s Tanja Dalle-Muenchmeyer.

CRP Away Day

20th May 2019 / Posted by CRP Team

CRP held its team away day on Wednesday 1st May at The Hub Sports Facility, Regents Park.  The team took time out to undertake a range of brainstorming and team building activities, as well as prepare information to be presented in CRP’s new website.  In readiness for Mental Health Awareness Week, the day also included delivery of a mindfulness session where the team were given various tips on mindfulness practices as well as details on resources they can access for further information.

The CRP team were joined by CRP Board Co-Chairs Councillor Wendy Hyde and Simon Pitkeathley for some welcome words of wisdom to conclude the day.

For further information please contact CRP’s Carol Quamina

 

CRP’s Ultra-Low Emission Supplier Directory Launches!

20th May 2019 / Posted by CRP Team

As part of the DEFRA-funded Clean Air Villages programme, CRP are excited to launch an online
Ultra-Low Emission Supplier Directory. The directory lists businesses in and around London that
deliver using vehicles that are ultra-low emission, from cargo bikes to electric vehicles, and it also
supports the Mayor of London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone that came into effect in April.

Switching suppliers to those that use cleaner vehicles will improve air quality, a prominent issue as
over 9000 Londoners are dying prematurely yearly because of toxic air (Mayor of London). Working
with the London Boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham, Lewisham and Islington the directory has a
localised element for 5 ‘villages’ as part of the Clean Air Villages programme. These Air Quality Focus
Areas are Archway, Bunhill/Old Street, Fulham Town Centre, Deptford High Street and Lewisham
Town Centre. To be included in the directory, suppliers guaranteed they would deploy ultra-low
emission vehicles’ at least 80% of the time when delivering/collecting in the Clean Air Village
concerned.

Building on the success of the directory and Clean Air Villages, CRP looks forward to working with
the London Borough of Lewisham in partnership with the London Boroughs of Camden,
Hammersmith and Fulham, Lambeth, Wandsworth, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
and Westminster City Council, Cadogan Estates (landowners), and Euston Town BID on the Clean Air
Villages 2 project that was recently granted funding by DEFRA for 2019-20.

Tanja Dalle-Muenchmeyer, Principal Programme Manager at Cross River Partnership, believes the
directory is “an innovative tool that makes it easier for businesses, large or small, to do their bit
towards cleaning up London’s air. We hope to add more businesses and other villages into our
directory in the coming months.”

To search the directory please visit: https://crossriverpartnership.org/directory/.

For further information please contact CRP’s Clean Air Project Lead Kate Fenton.

New CRP Website – https://crossriverpartnership.org/

20th May 2019 / Posted by CRP Team

We have finally launched our new Cross River Partnership website, celebrating 25 years of delivering London’s future! With the key theme of People, Places and Projects running throughout, the website is your number one place to find out what projects CRP have delivered as well as the partners involved.

New features including a timeline showcasing key milestones in CRP’s history since 1994, an interactive social feed that gathers latest project news from our Twitter and LinkedIn channels and a map view of all our partners in London.

Individual project pages contain useful statistics as well as links to key publications relating to the project, whilst the News page features articles written by our CRP team members to give you a real insight into the work that CRP does daily. The website also links to our online air quality tools such as the Clean Air Walking Routes Finder, Click. Collect. Clean Air and the brand new Ultra-Low Emission Supplier Directory.

We hope that you enjoy using the site that truly celebrates and reflects on 25 years of People, Places and Projects.

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