The Lord Mayor and the Corporation of London are at the 'Heart of the City' and City AM - recognised as 'The Voice of the City' for over 18 years - was passed the baton of The Dragon Awards and launched a new event called the City AM Dragon Awards on the 18th November 2024. 

Merging the Lord Mayor's Dragon Awards and City AM's ESG Awards, the event showcased the UK's finest in business, ESG change-makers and social impact innovators. By elevating these awards to a national level, the goal united all four corners of the UK in celebrating business practices that address the critical ESG agenda, financial inclusion, sustainability, waste reduction, and climate change. 

The 2024 City AM Dragon Awards categories were designed to offer opportunities for individuals as well as businesses of all sizes across the following twelve categories:

• Dragon Industry Leader of the Year

• Dragon Entrepreneur of the Year

• Dragon Heart of the City Award

• Dragon Inclusive Workplace & Employee Wellbeing

• Dragon Impact Business of the Year

• Dragon Advisor of the Year

• Dragon Investor of the Year

• Dragon Start up of the Year

• Dragon Bank/Financial Institution of the Year

• Dragon Team of the Year

• Dragon Industry Association of the Year

• Dragon Award for Leadership in Financial Literacy

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The City of London Corporation is a proud partner of the Dragon Awards, continuing its long-standing involvement of recognising and celebrating positive social impact. Since the awards’ inception in 1987, the Corporation has played a crucial role in supporting initiatives that drive meaningful change within Greater London and beyond.

Canary Wharf Group (CWG) is the developer of the largest urban regeneration project in Europe. CWG develops, manages and currently owns interests in approximately 9 million square feet of mixed-use space – curating a vibrant mixed-use community, offering an extraordinary environment to those who work, live, and visit Canary Wharf.

Founded in London in 2005, BuyAssociation connects over 30,000 of the world’s most informed property investors with exclusive opportunities in the UK property market. As a trusted property news publisher and a leading authority in the sector, we offer our community early access to investment opportunities before they hit the broader market.

We specialise in high-growth regions such as Manchester, Birmingham, and Liverpool, focusing on key property asset classes including buy-to-let, HMOs, and short-term/holiday lets. Our commitment to identifying emerging hotspots allows investors to capitalise on strong rental yields and potential capital growth.

Recognised for our success and expansion, BuyAssociation was recently listed in the FT 1000 as one of Europe’s fastest-growing companies in 2024.

Founded in 2015 and launched in 2017, Tide is the leading business financial platform in the UK. Tide helps SMEs save time (and money) in the running of their businesses by not only offering business accounts and related banking services, but also a comprehensive set of highly usable and connected administrative solutions from invoicing to accounting. Tide has 650,000 SME members in the UK (c. 11% market share) and 350,000 SMEs in India. Tide has also been recognised with the Great Place to Work certification two years in a row. Tide is backed by Anthemis, Apax Partners, Augmentum Fintech, Creandum, Salica Investments, Jigsaw, Latitude, LocalGlobe, SBI Group and Speedinvest, amongst others. It employs around 2,000 Tideans worldwide. Tide’s long-term ambition is to be the leading business financial platform globally.  LinkedIn,  X , Instagram and – Facebook.

The Eastern City BID is a Business Improvement District working to promote and enhance a unique part of the City of London known as the Eastern City. Representing a leading and innovative business community, the EC BID works collaboratively to deliver a range of programmes and transformative interventions that will develop this globally recognised economic district into an agile, dynamic and vibrant destination.

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-model partners with a commitment to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It’s how we’ve contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years.

City AM sincerely thanks all our partners in 2024 for their passion and support in driving meaningful change and commitment to building a more sustainable and equitable future for all.