The Paddington Partnership was established over 20 years ago to work with local partners, stakeholders and companies to ensure the area meets the needs of businesses, visitors and the local community. Central to The Partnership’s work is to present Paddington as a single location rather than a collection of development schemes. Whilst companies have a relationship with their individual landlords through the rent and service charge framework, the Partnership presents the ‘whole’ Paddington through community engagement, events, print, digital and social media, building relationships locally and regionally. The Partnership focuses its activities on issues that affect more than one ‘scheme’, or the area as a whole, often acting as the public face for what is a very complicated location to the layman. Over the last 20 years we have animated the waterspace, transformed the public realm, established two neighbouring Business Improvement Districts, attracted successful leisure and hospitality amenities to both land and water and created a highly respected Community Programme. The Community Programme was established in 2004 and today works with some of London’s most demanding and successful businesses to place over 1,200 corporate volunteers a year into more than 50 charities and schools. Our community programme is a bespoke service, in which we design and deliver meaningful voluntary activity firmly rooted in the Paddington community.
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London, W2 1NJ, GB
The #ElizabethLine has surpassed 500 million passenger journeys, it was announced last week. With that achievement in mind, we thought we'd take a walk down memory lane and share some of our favourite moments of the #Crossrail journey, from tank farms to tunnels. https://lnkd.in/emJJgcqD
Throughout December the Convatec Christmas Elves have been busy volunteering to spread Christmas joy to the Paddington community. A special thank you everyone at Convatec, you all made it a Christmas to remember! Highlights have included: 🎉 Supported 4 community organisations 👏 84 hours of volunteering 🎁 Wrapped 206 Christmas presents for a local school children 🎄 Decorated Daventry House, Notting Hill Genesis a local care home to celebrate it's first Christmas with residents ☃️ Created a magical Winter Grotto for families to enjoy ✨ Untangled countless sets of fairy lights! Sarah Ehlinger Affotey, Ashley Sweetland MBE #Christmas2024
Last Friday festive volunteers from Vodafone visited King Solomon Academy to help set up for the schools annual Christmas Fair. The team helped transform the playground into a Winter Wonderland, including a magical Santa's Grotto, ready for Father Christmas to hand out presents to pupils! The team also host craft activities and helped to sell pre-loved toys raising vital funds for the school. Thank you Ezgi YILDIRIM for all your support! #Christmas2024
🛫 Flying home for Christmas 🎶 🎶 Our colleagues at Heathrow Express are spreading some festive 🎅 cheer with a tiny, yet mighty, 10cm Christmas tree. Tucked away at Paddington Station, this mini 🎄 tree is here to bring a big smile to everyone who passes by – and a reminder that 🎟️ prices are just as small when you book Heathrow Express tickets in advance. Juliana D. Mark Eastwood Heathrow Express Heathrow
A big thank you to Zoe-Marie Elsey and your brilliant M&S colleagues who helped to create a wonderfully festive Christmas party for over 200 LDN London members. 🎉 A night to remember! Thank you. #Christmas2024
A massive thank you to the team of volunteers from Marks and Spencer, who helped us get ready for our Christmas party. 🙏 The team made a balloon arch and decorated the Grand Junction so it looked beautiful and festive. They also donated some lovely raffle prizes for the event. Behind the scenes a lot of work went into our Christmas party. Having the support of volunteers really makes a difference. Thanks so much for your help and have a wonderful Christmas. 🎄 💙
On Tuesday volunteers from Heathrow Express brought festive joy to St Mary Magdalene & St Stephen's Primary School. The team decorated the school's reception area, Christmas tree, and used their creative flair to draw colourful Christmas designs on the windows. The team brought a real buzz to the school and the pupils can't wait for the festive break. Thank you Heathrow Express! sarah livingstone Hayleigh Barter #Christmas2024
🎄Christmas has officially arrived in Paddington!🎄Kingfisher plc colleagues visited The Happy Hub, braving the cold weather to clean and decorate the much-loved Christmas truck which transports Father Christmas and his reindeer to the annual Christmas light switch on in Queens Park. Volunteers were also busy inside The Happy Hub assembling Christmas trees and hanging fairy lights. Thank you to Ruth Lampard and Vanessa Warren for planning two fun and festive volunteering events. #Christmas2024
This small, unassuming collection of former industrial warehouses in Paddington is set to bring the world's best minds together to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Part of the Fleming Initiative, The Fleming Centre will include an interactive exhibition space, education centre, events programme, café, research facilities and offices - providing a dedicated space to bring together researchers, policymakers, clinicians, behavioural experts, commercial partners and the public to combine their shared networks, expertise and skills. An RIBA design competition will see the five shortlisted entries on display to members of the public for feedback next week, from 26 to 28 November, on site at The Bays (pictured). https://lnkd.in/ecG5A44W
This week our Community Team visited Vertex Pharmaceuticals Community Lab in Milton Park. Thank you Roberts Zivtins and Reba Honey Wakeling for the insightful guided tour, it was incredible to hear how local schools are being introduced to STEM with hands-on experiments. Vertex also offer paid summer internships, another brilliant way to engage the community and broaden career opportunities. We look forward to our next visit!
The wonderful team from Heathrow Express hosted another popular Travel Training session with PiP - Pursuing Independent Paths - this time with dogs! 🐕 PiP students had the opportunity to meet the security team at Heathrow, learn about careers and develop a greater understanding of how dogs play a vital role in providing extra-security for airport passengers. Of course, there was time for a cuddle and PiP students had fun hiding treats for the dogs to find! Thank you Alex Reed EngTech TMIET, sarah livingstone and Hayleigh Barter for all your planning and for adding another key skill to this excellent programme.