What one thing would you do to improve London?
Future entrepreneurs suggest 33 ways to improve city life
On January 26th, The Roundhouse joined forces with the Evening Standard for Young Progress Makers — an afternoon of discussions and debates around entrepreneurialism, campaigning and technology. Featuring London Mayor Sadiq Khan, Lily Cole and Second Home co-founder, Rohan Silva, it gave aspiring entrepreneurs the chance to hear from influencers of today. The audience were also invited into the YPM video booth to record their suggestions for how to improve life in London. Considering a suggestion from the last event led to the creation of the Night Tube, this list is vitally important to take notice of and action. After all, it’s authored by the people who will build the future of this great city.
What one thing would you do to improve London?
1. More youth clubs
2. Self defence lessons for all Londoners — street and knife crime is very dangerous
3. Big corporates to offer more opportunities for young people
4. Big corporates to care and make a difference about social change
5. Change the way the youth of today are perceived and give them more leadership roles in our community
6. Free accessible wifi for everyone — tourists and locals
7. Make music more available — more cheap and smaller music venues, cheaper ticket prices
8. Creating more green spaces and improve air quality
9. Improve the transport system and better access for cyclists and also access for cyclists to get on public transport
10. Bridge the gap between big companies and organisations and young people so young people know how to get involved with the things these big companies do
11. Put more entertainment and attractions such as adventure playgrounds, music studios, cinemas, roller skating areas so that young people can be occupied
12. More awareness of mental health so taught from primary school upwards as 1 in 4 people suffer from this
13. There is a society even though people say London don’t have one — people help people and all these communities, charities and groups are great and diverse so lets get together and help each other anyway we can
14. Improve the air quality by drastically reducing the amount of vehicles on the road
15. Education — if we can improve this we can get the next generation confident with their mental well being, cooking, home skills, science, arts and how to be human. Use boxing, tai chai, martial arts, art history to be offered in schools
16. Lower the price of rent and cost of housing so more people can afford to live in the city
17. Bridge the gap between young and old in terms of doing business — the idea you’re too young to run a multi million pound business or too young to manage people
18. Housing more accessible
19. Work on the lack of jobs available for young people. Invest time and money into projects to engage young people
20. Stop taking youth privileges away and bring back more youth groups and businesses to take them away from crime
21. Thinking about Brexit — do not think about it and worry about it. London is an exciting city with lots going on so focus on that
22. London a great city but for it to thrive and move into the next chapter it needs to have more accessibility for education, housing and improving its weak links. Looking after its vulnerable people
23. Greater investment in the suburbs
24. Guarantee more access for funding and the arts and help people with applications and make it a simpler process
25. Cost of renting in London
26. First aid and mental health training
27. School curriculum. They don’t get taught to explore their interests e.g. dance, retail, fashion
28. Make London a public space and reduce private spaces
29. Transport — I would try to come up with a better and cheaper option
30. Wifi on busses
31. Do something within my local community to improve gang violence and help out with homelessness
32. Make young people a more central part of decision making and open this up to a wider range of people from more diverse backgrounds
33. I would get the judges to highly challenge Teresa May on the laws and changes she is trying to push through. I think it will misalign peoples freedom in this city
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