Eleanor B. is one of the ‘lucky sixteen’ apprentices working within the Greater London Authority and London Assembly. Eleanor tells us what it’s like to work as an apprentice for the GLA’s Regeneration team.
Three months ago I began working at the GLA as an apprentice in the Regeneration team, in this time I have learnt a great deal!
This week's Duty Officer Blog discusses our Gold Summit event for London's strategic responders, the latest measles situation, plus a resilience outlook of the week ahead
Phat Kat and Sonia Panesar tell us about their musical partnership and why they’re excited about playing London’s Vaisakhi Festival on 5 May.
Safestats analysis of todays release of Office for National Statistics data covering crime statistics broken down by UK Police force has now been released.
Our weekly advice on preparing for emergencies and the work of the London Resilience Team. This week - communicating with the public, the London Marathon, avian influenza and measles.
140 characters is far from enough to commemorate such an occasion, so this blog post takes a look back at the past 1000 tweets from @London_Prepared. What have we covered, what have you liked and what can you expect from the next thousand?
Olly Kohn tells us about bringing the Jolly Hog Roast to Saturday’s Feast of St George and running a family business
It all began when my wife bought me a sausage-making machine for my birthday. I play rugby for Harlequins and was out injured. I spent a year in rehab and got a stall at our ground. It all developed from there.
Simon D, bassist for 'Jamie Thorn & The Mystery Pacific', explains what it was like when Gigs: Big Busk took the band on a busking tour of Paris.
Playing in Paris was an enlightening experience for our band. We made memories, we acquired new fans, we graced new cultures with our music and to top it all off, we made a fair bit of money doing it too!
Going to France, and the process of busking itself, was truly an eye opener for us all. It showed that there is actually a musical audience outside the cultured borders of the London that we know and love.
Rachel Davies talks about demonstrating her culinary skills at Saturday's Feast of St George.
When I was at university I couldn’t cook at all. I used buy ready-made soups. After a few years working in the charity sector, I did VSO in Zambia. I ended up in a village with no supermarket and had no car.
I started cooking with whatever I could find.
Patrick Bullock from Emergency Exit Arts explains how he’s creating the fantastic ‘dragon on a fork’ centrepiece for Saturday’s Feast of St George celebrations
