The City of London Corporation has opened entries for this year’s Lord Mayor’s Dragon Awards and is especially keen to attract SMEs.
Lord Mayor Alan Yarrow, said: "We are calling on companies, particularly SMEs to enter this year’s Lord Mayor's Dragon Awards and share best practice examples of their own community involvement. It’s a priceless investment into their future workforce, and our society.
"During the 27 years we have held these Awards, we have seen that you don’t have to be a certain type of business to win. The only criteria are community projects which make a real difference to both the businesses and communities. We particularly want to recognize this City's army of volunteers - deploying their unique expertise and skills in order to safeguard and secure the future of charitable organisations.”to the UK’s oldest corporate community engagement awards."
The award categories are: Lord Mayor’s Award for Long Standing Achievement; Heart of the City Award for Best New Community Programme; The Future Proofing Charities Award (previously named the Strengthening the Third Sector Award); The Education and Lifelong Learning Award (previously the Education Award); Enterprise and Employment Award; and the Community Partners Award.
Winners and finalists benefit from the profile-raising PR associated with the Awards and organisations from last year’s shortlist also reported winning new business, improving internal relationships and building client reputations long-term, as a result of being finalists.
The closing date is the 18 May 2015 and winners will be announced on 30 September 2015.
Enter here.