The Lord Mayor’s Dragon Awards are back for 2019 and applications are now open until 16 April for all of our categories, including our new special category, the Lord Mayor’s Award for Leadership in Digital Skills. The Awards celebrate businesses that are achieving excellence in social impact and is the premier showcase to #CelebrateImpact and inspire others to tackle social issues.

The Awards are free to enter to and to attend. They are open to businesses large and small across London and the UK (Please refer to each category)

We will support you. The team are on call to provide personal 1:1 support sessions that can be hosted either at Guildhall or your offices (if based in London). Get in touch to arrange a session.

Winners will receive, a professionally edited video of their initiative, support securing press and media coverage in addition to the highly acclaimed Dragon Award statue to mark their success to employees, clients and competitors!

All applicants will be invited to The Mansion House in September where the winners will receive a prestigious ‘Dragon’ from Alderman Peter Estlin, The Rt Hon The Lord Mayor of London.

The Rt Hon The Lord Mayor Alderman Peter Estlin, said:

“These awards are a fantastic opportunity to celebrate the great work firms are doing to tackle social problems across the capital, and the wider UK.

“I’m very excited that this year we have an award focused on digital skills. It is now more important than ever that we bring communities together to build, develop and nurture the pipeline of digitally-skilled and innovative talent.

“Digital transformation offers us an opportunity to improve community cohesion, widen social mobility and build the UK’s competitiveness through skills development. It is an opportunity that together we must seize.

“I am calling on businesses of all sectors and sizes to come forward and show us what they are doing to benefit society.”

Tim Campbell, Founder of the Bright Ideas Trust and compère of this year’s Lord Mayor’s Dragon Awards, said:

“I’m extremely excited to host these special awards for the second year running.

“There is some truly amazing work being done by businesses to help local communities tackle society’s most pressing problems.

“The range of employment initiatives supporting diversity in the workplace, helping under-represented communities and reaching people from disadvantaged backgrounds is something I really commend.

“These are life changing programmes paving the way for successful careers based on merit and hard work.

“We need more programmes like this and we want to encourage other firms to take up similar initiatives and play their part in creating a society we are all proud to celebrate.”

Apply now!

Article posted by Ikramul Choudhury