What is the Mayor doing?
- Promoting London's successful
bid to hold the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
- Made a successful bid for
the
start of the world's greatest cycle race, the Tour
de France, to take place in London during the weekend
of 6-8 July 2007
- Published his Culture
Strategy, a ten-year plan to develop London as a centre of cultural
excellence and creativity; and set up the London
Cultural Consortium to take forward the implementation of the strategy
- Promoting campaigns with Visit London to maintain the number of Londoners
and visitors coming into central London
- Revitalised Trafalgar
Square - 'I made it a manifesto commitment to make better use
of Trafalgar Square, turning it into a free, open-air venue that
will attract Londoners and tourists alike' - now the venue for many
free cultural events
- Organised Rise (formerly
Respect), in partnership with the National Assembly Against Racism
and the trade union movement - a free anti-racist festival featuring
music, comedy and family entertainment
- Published his Children
and Young People's Strategy
- Facilitated an agreement enabling the National Sports Centre at Crystal Palace to
stay open pending a major overhaul, and allowing the Athletics Grand Prix meetings
to take place there
- Recognised the importance of the film and media industries in London
with the establishment of Film London,
supported by the Mayor via the London Development Agency; he also supports
the London Film Festival
- Given
support to Black History Month every
year from 2000
- Published 'Asian London' brochures promoting Asian cultural events,
including the London Mela,
each summer since 2002
- The Mayor's Thames Festival is an annual
public event celebrating the capital's river, involving many London
schools and community groups
- Set up Design for London, bringing
together the GLA Architecture and Urbanism Unit, the LDA design team
and TfL's urban design team
- Set up the Notting Hill Carnival
Review Group, to formulate guidelines to safeguard the future
of the Carnival
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