The 2022 Winners
To find out more about each of the 2022 finalists please view our intereactive brochure
Business of the Year
Sponsored by LSBU
Winner: Jim and Tonic
We are absolutely blown away. I think entering the awards is a time for reflection. So often you get caught in the weeds of doing the day-to-day stuff, you don’t really sit back and look at what you’re doing on a wider scale. These awards validate the fact that we’re on the right path and doing the right thing. It’s a real shot in the arm, and worth all the long hours, the hard times, the low points.
Matt Warren
Our long-term goal is to do better, to not rest on our laurels. We’re never satisfied so we’ll be back next year, stronger and pushing harder to see where we can improve.
Hendre Barnard
Best Employer
Sponsored by Berkley Group
Winner: Platypus Digital
It’s amazing, it’s the first award we’ve won as an agency so we’re really happy. It’s something to market and help raise brand awareness.
Nikki Corney, Senior Search Marketing Executive
Highly Commended: Alchemist
Commended: London Sport
Best New Business
Sponsored by Lendlease
Winner: Osteopathy On The Green
Highly Commended: The Flygerians
Commended: COCOON Natural Dye House
Best Charity or Social Enterprise
Sponsored by Link City/ Bouygues UK
Winner: London Bubble Theatre Company
For this to happen in our 50th year, it’s really amazing, really special, and for all our members, we wouldn’t be here it wasn’t for them, if we weren’t making theatre for them every day.
Lucy Bradshaw
We’re such a small organisation, this is the first nomination we’ve ever had for something on this scale. It’s very exciting.
Marie Vickers
Highly Commended: Gather
Commended: Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE)
Contribution to the Community
Sponsored by Elephant & Castle Town Centre
Winner: Bizzie Bodies
It is incredible. It’s just a reward for everything that we’ve been doing and to find out that actually what we’re doing is very good.
Founder Emilie Mendy
Highly Commended: Borough Market
Highly Commended: London Mutual Credit Union
Commended: Ballers Academy
Commended: Pedder
Business Commitment to Education & Skills
Sponsored by Alumno
Winner: Borough Market
Highly Commended: Build Recruitment
Entrepreneur of the Year
Sponsored by Tribe
Winner: Sunny Hodge, Diogenes The Dog
It’s been a hard graft these last few years so to win felt validating in many, many ways – although the thought of doing a speech is always quite scary.
Highly Commended: Lauren Turner, Aesthetics by Lauren Turner
Commended: Amarachi Clarke, Lucocoa Chocolate
Best Business for Customer Service
Winner: National Vintage League
It’s really, honestly humbling. This is an incredible event. We love our customers! It’s the best job in the world.
Chris Milner
We both come from a background where we’ve just been working hard on customer service and we’ve just carried that over into what we do. We love what we do. We’re passionate about it. The people that buy from us are passionate.
Willie Crossland
Highly Commended: The Pizza Room – Surrey Quays
Commended: OshPaz Authentic Uzbek Street Food
Business Pivot Award
Winner: Jim and Tonic
It’s a confidence boost, to showcase that we’re doing something right; being able to adapt and to change for the better. So, we’re coming out of the COVID experience a lot stronger and we can take that forward now with a lot more confidence.
Highly Commended: Peace Ballers
Commended: Diogenes The Dog
Business Resilience Award
Winner: Jim and Tonic
We feel very honoured to win. This was a difficult category, the judging was very demanding.
Hendre Barnard
Highly Commended: Diogenes The Dog
Commended: Seaward & Stearn London
Outstanding Team Award
Winner: Theatre Peckham
This means the world to us. The great thing is that it’s not just about one person or one element, it’s about everything collaboratively. It’s a fantastic team and yes, we collaborate together but it’s also about our respect, our trust for each other.
Suzann McLean
Highly Commended: Ballers Academy
Highly Commended: Café Piazza
Commended: The Table Café
Sustainable Green Investment Award
Sponsored by Landsec
Winner: Jim and Tonic
It was a very competitive category. What all the other nominees were doing was also impressive, so we feel very honoured that we were singled out for this. We’ve tried to do sustainability in every level of the business. Nothing’s too big. Nothing’s too small, from what cups we serve our drinks in right up to the big things, such as generating our own energy.
Highly Commended: Gather
Commended: COCOON Natural Dye House