This e-bulletin is the second of a series of regular fortnightly e-bulletins which will be produced during the Capital Clean Up Campaign between 8th March - 15th June 2007. The campaign e-bulletin will provide you with all the latest news on the Capital Clean Up and will highlight the range of activities taking place over the next three months. The e-bulletin can also be sued to publicise your own events. You can e-mail you're activities to capitalcleanup@encams.org detailing the date, location, description, number of people involved and contact details. These events will also be publicised on the Capital Clean Up website.
The Capital Clean Up was launched in fine style on a glorious spring day on March 8th with a number of events taking place in and around the London Borough of Southwark.
The day started with volunteers, street wardens and staff from the London Borough of Southwark and London's leading waterways charity Thames21 cleaning up the Thames foreshore adjacent The Tate Modern. Almost a tonne of rubbish was cleared from the foreshore which was removed by the Port of London's Driftwood vessel which had been beached during the event and provided a fitting backdrop to the event.
The launch was also given the star treatment by non-other than former BBC Political Editor and now Sunday AM presenter Andrew Marr who was more than happy to pose for a few pictures supporting the launch in between filming a new series on the Millennium Bridge!
The day finished on a high at Keyworth Primary School where children undertook a litter pick of the school's grounds and recorded their findings as part of Southwark's Junior Street Leaders Programme and the Eco-Schools Programme.
The London Sustainability Weeks Motivating and Networking Pre-launch took place last Wednesday the 14th of March at the London Living Room in City Hall, the venue was donated by the Mayor of London. The launch consisted of workshops followed by the official launch of LSW 2007 and concluding with a panel of speakers. The workshops covered Using Climate Talk at events, Working with the press, Making your events sustainable and Avoiding pitfalls when organising an event. The speakers included Niall Machin from the GLA, Kevin Golding Williams from Capital Clean Up, Mike Dinsdale from Brother, Matthew Thomson from London CRN and Samantha Heath from LSx. Chris Church, Lynda Thoroughgood and Vicki Carroll from London 21 Sustainability Network also spoke.
The event was attended by over 80 people, the majority of whom were events organisers and those interested in hosting an event for LSW 2007.
The highlight of the event was the Love London cake to celebrate the 5th year of London Sustainability Weeks. The first London Sustainability Weeks took place in 2003 It was also announced that this year Sustainability Weeks is going global, with Amsterdam Sustainability Weeks launching this June.
For more information about the Love London campaign or about organising an event for LSW2007 please contact Katie Watson, London 21 Sustainability Network on katie@lovelondon.org.uk or 0208 9684602.
The Safer Neighbourhoods programme is contributing to the Capital Standards Capital Clean-Up Campaign across London. Each borough has been nominating one project for this year's campaign. Some details of examples form the four parts of London are shown below:
In Hackney the Safer Neighbourhoods teams are working with Local Authority partners and the Probation Service Community Payback scheme in Kingsland Road, Kingsland High Road, Kingsland Waste and many smaller side roads spreading across Dalston, Queensbridge and De Beauviour wards. This is an ongoing operation across 3 wards linked to drug dealing, anti-social behaviour and prostitution which will involve graffiti clearance, rubbish removal and overgrown areas being cleaned up.
In Barnet Safer Neighbourhoods teams are working with the Council and London Probation Community Payback Scheme in West Finchley ward at Lovers Walk which is a long pedestrian only footpath that runs between Ballards Lane and Dollis Brook .Graffiti clearance and environmental improvement will be taking place to improve community safety and the use of the footpath.
In Lewisham, Perry Vale ward the Safer Neighbourhoods team are working in the communal grounds of two residential blocks of flats adjacent to each other in Elsinore Road SE23 which have been attracting anti-social behaviour by youths for some time. The area is overgrown, covered in litter and fly tip waste and has several derelict shed buildings in its boundary. The Council, London Probation Community Payback Scheme and Ant-Social Behaviour team are involved in the project.
In Sutton the Safer Neighbourhoods team in Wandle Valley and The Wrythe Wards are working along the length of the Wandle Valley Trail. The project entails cleaning graffiti from alleyways, removing litter and rubbish from fly-tipped areas, repair and replace fence panels, introduce crime prevention measures where practicable (alley gating) and a whole host of other activity. Partners involved include - Environmental Services, The Wandle Trust, Community Payback, The Environment Agency , local Crime Prevention design advisors and the Residents within the local community.
For more information please contact Chris Hemstead, Safer Neighbourhoods Unit – Metropolitan Police (Chris.Hemstead@met.police.uk)
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