Connect to Prosper Dashboard March 2024
See Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli’s progress as the 695th Lord Mayor of London
Connect To Prosper – celebrating the many Knowledge Miles of our Square Mile, the world’s coffee house
Connect to Prosper Dashboard March 2024
See Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli’s progress as the 695th Lord Mayor of London
Connect To Prosper – celebrating the many Knowledge Miles of our Square Mile, the world’s coffee house
An open session for discussion – all welcome:
City of London Citizens Forum (19 February 2024) Tickets, Mon 19 Feb 2024 at 18:30 | Eventbrite
City of London Citizens Forum (18 March 2024) Tickets, Mon 18 Mar 2024 at 18:30 | Eventbrite
Connect to Prosper Dashboard Jan 2024
See Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli’s progress as the 695th Lord Mayor of London
Connect To Prosper – celebrating the many Knowledge Miles of our Square Mile, the world’s coffee house
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Help shape the Square Mile governing body’s approach to promoting a City where everyone can thrive.
The City Corporation is consulting on five equality, diversity and inclusion objectives, which outline its approach to making the City a fairer, more diverse place.
It aims to provide aspirational leadership, enable career progression opportunities for all, create a community-based approach to service delivery and promote socio-economic diversity.
Embedding equality, diversity and inclusion in the City’s work, and attracting and retaining the widest possible pool of global talent is vital to ensure the City remains competitive, productive and innovative.
Are the objectives clear, strong and relevant enough to make an impact?
Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli has always claimed he can name his predecessors back to 1278, if you put a list in front of him.
Now you can do this party trick too!
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/london-aldermen/hen3-1912/pp70-79
The City of London Corporation invites you to a Panel Discussion and Networking Breakfast Reception to mark Mental Health Awareness Week
Wednesday, 17 May 2023 from 8.00 am – 10.00 am
Guildhall, London EC2V 7HH
Mental Health Awareness Week is an ideal time for us all to think about mental health, tackle stigma, and find out how we can create a society that prevents mental health problems from developing and protects our mental well-being. This year’s theme is anxiety – a normal emotion in us all, but sometimes it can get out of control and become a mental health problem.
The discussion will aim to increase people’s awareness and understanding of anxiety by providing information on the things that can help prevent it from becoming a problem and what options are available to those who need further help. Guests will hear from speakers about their professional experiences with an opportunity to ask questions during the session.
Moderated by:
Anastasia Vinnikova, Head of Workplace Wellbeing, City Mental Health Alliance
Speakers include:
– Ria Bernard, Chief Executive, Action for Stammering Children
– Andrew Horobin, Deputy Borough Director for Adult Mental Health Services in Hackney
and the City of London, East London NHS Foundation Trust
– Lea Milligan, Chief Executive Officer, MQ Mental Health Research
Timings:
8.00 am – Breakfast refreshments
8.30 am – Panel discussion commences followed by Q&A
9.15 am – Networking
10.00 am – Event concludes
If you would like to attend, please contact:
City Events and Protocol Team, City Remembrancer’s Office
rem.events@cityoflondon.gov.uk
0207 332 3200
Lovely local video to share on King’s Day!
This is by The Anglian Flaneur. As for ‘flaneur’, the views of our Alderman.
The following text is from a project completed by the former Clerk of the House of Commons, Sir David Natzler. He was engaged to identify tripoints, the points within the City of London at which any three of the City’s wards intersect. Here are his paragraphs about Broad Street Ward:
“24. Bishopsgate/Broad Street/Cornhill: where Wormwood Street running west along the line of the wall becomes London Wall, crossing Old Broad Street. On the south side Deutsche Bank occupies the 10 storey French limestone- faced No 75 London Wall, once known as Winchester House: the bankers can relax at the Be At One cocktail bar opposite. On the north east beyond No 55 are the churchyard and garden and netball court of St Botolph without Bishopsgate, the church where Keats was baptised and the Bishopsgate ward church; and a truly remarkable Victorian Turkish-style bath house. On the north west is the neglected brickwork of All Hallows Church on the Wall, a plain Classical building of 1767 completed by George Dance. It has long been a source of good works. The 19th century hymnodist Samuel John Stone ended his career as rector here: earlier he had written Lyra Fidelium, including the “Church’s One Foundation”. Another remarkable rector was Montague Fowler, who made All Hallows a refuge for the poorly paid city workers who came in early to benefit from the cheap fares. It is now run as a community church by the evangelical network City Gates. It is a reminder of the strong tradition of social service from some City churches, even when they are neither beautiful nor readily accessible to visitors.
“25. Bishopsgate/Broad Street/ Coleman: the point where Liverpool Street comes past the railway terminus for East Anglia and boats for the Low Countries to meet Blomfield Street, opposite Broad Street Place at 31-37. Here is now the giant portal for the Elizabeth Line station. The old buildings at 1-14 Liverpool Street have been demolished to be replaced by a new office building One Liverpool Street developed by Aviva and TfL. On Broad Street Place is a plaque to St Mary Moorfields, a church built in 1820 and serving as the pro-Cathedral of the Roman Catholic church from 1850 to 1870. It was demolished in the 1890s. Blomfield Street is the line of the Walbrook stream dividing the City: the Walbrook skulls from Roman or Celtic times were found here in the waterway. To the west of Blomfield Street is the amazing Finsbury Circus, now alas without its bowling green but still the largest open space in the City, and a rare example of restraint in the intensive development of the city in the 19th century.
“26. Broad/Cornhill/Walbrook: the tripoint is where Throgmorton Street, with some well- preserved Victorian buildings, one numbered in its stonework XXVI which the Post Office would not like, enters Old Broad Street. Behind the buildings in the north west angle along Austin Friars Lane is the church of Austin Friars, rebuilt after the war, and originally the centre of the Augustinian Friars settlement, founded in the 13th century. It has been used since the Reformation by foreign Protestants and is still the Dutch Church, the oldest Dutch language church in the world. On the Old Broad Street front was the church of St Peters le Poer, just outside the monastic precinct, demolished in 1907 and transferred to Friern Barnet. Drapers Hall on the north side of Throgmorton Street occupies the site of a mansion on former Augustinian land once occupied by Thomas Cromwell; the London Stock Exchange was opposite Drapers Hall in 125 Old Broad Street in the Stock Exchange Tower until it moved out in 2004. Adam’s Court on the east side, which runs through to Threadneedle Street, is named after a Draper Lord Mayor from the troubled times of 1645. Here too is a splendid tripoint marker, a non-functioning light blue City police telephone, in a slightly better state than the modern black-painted New World telephone box down the Road past the City of London Club at No 19.
“27. Broad/Coleman Street/Walbrook: this is an oddity as the boundary line dividing Broad Street and Coleman Street wards runs – and has long run – northwards straight through the middle of the church of St Margaret Lothbury; there are ward badges on the church and each ward has its noticeboard here. All that is missing is a neat boundary line up the brickwork. The tower is in Coleman Street ward. The boundary is the Walbrook which ran and presumably still runs in a culvert underneath the church. Stow in his 1598 account of London divided the wards into those east and west of the Walbrook, reflecting a division that goes back many centuries: Ludgate Hill against Cornhill. St Margaret Lothbury is an archetype of a well-loved City church, with fitments from St Christopher le Stocks nearby, which was removed to create the modern Bank of England building, sword rests loaded with livery badges, and so on. To its east at 7 Lothbury is a splendid City Venetian Gothic mini-palace built in 1866, now converted into private flats. To the south is where the gold used to enter the Bank of England, and presumably leave it.”
Celebrating the best in business, The Lord Mayor’s Dragon Awards 2023 are now open for entry. The Awards recognise the extraordinary efforts that businesses like yours are making to achieve positive impact for their communities and wider society.
Hosted by The Lord Mayor, these prestigious Awards are open to businesses of all sizes and are free to enter.
How to enter
Applications are open from Monday 3 April until Friday 2 June. Categories range from the Social Impact Award, to this year’s Lord Mayor’s Award for Leadership in Financial Literacy, the Inclusive Employment Award and more.
Here’s your guide to entering:
Click here to find out more and apply.
If you have any questions take a look at the FAQs or get in touch with the Dragon’s team directly and they’d be happy to help.