Tag: Mayor of London

London Mayor announces first-ever London National Park City Week

Stuart Mitchell

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, today announced the first ever London National Park City Week, celebrating the capital’s natural environment and encouraging Londoners to help make it even greener. Sadiq has committed to help make London the world’s first National Park City, where more than 50 per cent of the city is green by 2050 and the capital’s green spaces and waterways benefit all Londoners. Working with the National Park City Foundation and other partners, he aims to declare the capital a National Park City in 2019, and is…

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New #BehindEveryGreatCity campaign celebrates 100 years of women’s suffrage

Stuart Mitchell

Ahead of the centenary of the first women in the UK securing the right to vote, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has unveiled a major campaign to celebrate the role London played in the women’s suffrage campaign, to mark the progress that’s been made on women’s equality over the past 100 years and to drive gender equality across the capital. Sadiq Khan’s new #BehindEveryGreatCity campaign will champion the fact that it is the achievements and contributions of women, from all walks of life, which make cities like London great.…

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Mayor Of London launches new anti-knife crime Campaign: London Needs You Alive

Stuart Mitchell

Some of London’s most influential young artists and campaigners – from grime and rap stars to poets, bloggers and photographers joined the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, to launch a new anti-knife crime campaign: London Needs You Alive – don’t carry a knife. London Needs You Alive puts forward a positive message and aims to influence young Londoners to make an active choice not to carry a knife. The campaign – backed by a powerful video – highlights how valuable they are to London, to their family and friends and…

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