Designing London's recovery

What we want:

• creating a ‘no wrong door approach’ so Londoners can access a simple route into work and skills
• establishing skills pathways for key sectors
• reversing London’s rising unemployment levels within two years
• making more Londoners aware of their rights at work and reducing poor employment practices
• more employers accredited by the Good Work Standard
• all Londoners between 16 and 24 have access to employment, skills and training
• reducing the employment gap for vulnerable groups (including women, some BAME groups, disabled people) over the next five years
• fewer working families in poverty
• fewer skills shortages reported by London’s employers.

What we want:

• all communities - particularly the most disadvantaged with the greatest health inequalities - can get the support and services they need. They should also have more control and choice over those services
• Londoners can build and maintain relationships and be active citizens
• London’s civil society is strong and resilient. It reflects and champions London's communities and can meet future shocks. Organisations can access resources and support to meet new/changed demand and provide essential services
• sustainable and strong partnerships between funders and voluntary and community sector organisations
• continuing risks that arose during the crisis are addressed
• public service partnerships proactively include the voice of older Londoners in future planning.

What we want:

• bigger and better high street greening and cycling infrastructure, new local civic and cultural infrastructure
• more visitors at different times of the day and night, limiting business vacancy rates
• business rates reform which allows high streets and town centres to thrive, whilst protecting local authority and GLA funding
• using new technologies and promoting civic innovation challenges to meet local community need
• high streets provide equal access to the social infrastructure which serves all London’s communities
• diverse new cultural, economic civic and social uses for empty spaces and buildings across London
• 15-minute cities - in every London borough Londoners’ daily needs are met within a 'short' walk or cycle ride
• daily needs are met within a 'short' walk or cycle ride in every London neighbourhood
• growth across London's everyday economy gets back on track - the creative industries, knowledge based and green economy sectors return to health
• growth in London's social economy including community businesses and social purpose organisations
• the role of High Streets reimagined as a centre for enterprise, collaboration and innovation.

What we want:

• speed up the creation of good jobs in London’s green economy and supply chain
• green skills and training available to all Londoners, particularly the most vulnerable. This includes launching a London ‘green skills academy’
• jobs and organisations within the green voluntary and community sector are protected and strengthened
• walking, cycling and public transport become the default choice for more people. This will help us hit our target of 80 per cent of trips to be made on foot, by cycle or using public transport
• increased investment to support London’s buildings to be zero-carbon and help the transport system to switch to zero-emission
• London’s public spaces are greener, accessible and resilient to the impacts of a changing climate, supporting health and wellbeing
• vulnerability and inequality are reduced by addressing fuel poverty, improving our air, increasing resilience and providing access to green spaces
• huge progress made to keep London on track to becoming a zero-emission city by 2030 and a zero-waste city by 2050.

• Recovery Mission: Building Stronger Communities + Helping Londoners into Good Work + Green New Deal + High Streets for All.
• Aim: Supporting fringe farming will create a business case and support service for landowners to help provide land for growing in London, creating green jobs, green public spaces and community building through the provision of good quality, locally grown and culturally appropriate food.
• Team: Shared Assets

• Recovery Mission: Green New Deal + High Streets for All + Helping Londoners into Good Work.
• Aim: Distributed Stitches will create a network of neighbourhood micro-factories where patterns are digital, and clothing produced after it is ordered. They will offer custom-fit and customisation options, repair workshops, clothes swaps and transform their micro-factory into community hubs in the evenings.
• Team: Pattern Project

• Recovery Mission: Helping Londoners into Good Work.
• Aim: Breakthrough will use apprenticeships to fund prison leavers into good work, working with businesses to diversify their workforce. They will refute the view that prison leavers have low capabilities and dedication, and will support those who have experienced chaotic periods in their lives to access skills and good work.
• Team: Breakthrough

• Recovery Mission: Green New Deal + High Streets for All + Building Stronger Communities.
• Aim: This project will create a visual interface that helps people identify the type and scale of event they want to organise – changing the approach so it is not ‘form heavy’. It will increase the capacity of local authorities and town centre partnerships to work with community groups and the private sector to plan for, safeguard and directly deliver a diverse and thriving mix of high street and town centre activity within easy reach of all Londoners and at all times of day and night.
• Team: The Community Brain

• Recovery Mission: Green New Deal + High Streets for All + Building Stronger Communities.
• Aim: The Child friendly 15 minute neighbourhood concept will explore how we can make our streets and neighbourhoods more accessible for children. The project will work with the lived experiences of children to produce a blueprint of how we can shift current power imbalances to shape a greener and more equitable future.
• Team: Sustrans

• Recovery Mission: Green New Deal + High Streets for All.
• Aim: This project will engage with a community of schools to build on an underused model to create refill shops within schools, making it a routine activity to use eco refill shops in the wider community.
• Team: Pupils Profit

• Recovery Mission: Building Stronger Communities.
• Aim: (Un)Common Ground will bring diverse communities together through conversation of shared experiences, improving wellbeing, community cohesion and democracy. They will use the expertise of oracy to develop the ability of individuals to meet physically to express views in a non-polarising way, bridging social, economic, cultural and generational divides.
• Team: Kafei Ltd

• Recovery Mission: Building Stronger Communities.
• Aim: Oasis will create a space where people can come together to create, make, recycle, repair, grow, cultivate and play. They will encourage a two-way flow of knowledge, skills and learning to support less visible/less heard local initiatives that share similar ambitions. This community hub is not just about creating a physical space or place, but will provide an accessible support platform that is engaging, transparent and interactive.
• Team: University of Roehampton

• Recovery Mission: Green New Deal + High Streets for All.
• Aim: Engaged will increase the time people spend in high streets and town centres by repurposing existing commercial space to build a long-term public toilet solution, which the community are encouraged to take ownership of to be truly sustainable.
• Team: Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design (Royal College of Art)

• Recovery Mission: Helping Londoners into Good Work.
• Aim: The City & Guilds team will create a tool to identify job seekers' transferable skills and match those to jobs and industry needs. They will develop the idea to think about skill’s bridges and tools for all ages and all sectors.
• Team: City & Guilds

• Mission: Building Stronger Communities + Green New Deal + High Streets for All.
• Aim: Ethnic Food Shops will create female-led ethnic food enterprises to fulfil their ideas in existing community hubs who are looking to help women start their own food enterprises. They will create and enhance a format for communication to enable and support female-led food entrepreneurship and training or work experience. The idea will evolve to consider how such a format can be scaled up and evolve in other communities.
• Team: Kingston University