Renaisi was short-listed as a finalist in 2 categories at the 2010 London Business Awards, sponsored by HSBC last week.
The London Business Awards are organised by Archant London, which is the UK’s largest independently-owned media business. They awards are intended to recognise and showcase significant achievements of London businesses in a number of categories including innovation, community involvement, social enterprise etc. The panel of judges included HSBC, UEL/Knowledge Dock; Business in the Community (BITC); Mercedes-Benz London; the East London Small Business Centre and the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. Hundreds of people gathered for the event at the Planit Embankment Gardens with a keynote speech from Anthony Browne, the policy director for economic development for London Mayor, Boris Johnson.
Although we are disappointed to not have scooped the top prize, we are still delighted to have been recognised as a finalist in both the ‘Best Social Enterprise’ category and the ‘Best London Regeneration Project’ (for the EC1 New Deal Public Space Strategy), especially seeing as there were a record number of entries. Bikeworks won the ‘Best Social Enterprise’ category and Skip Garden won the ‘Best London Regeneration Project’. This builds on our recent award for best Hackney Social Enterprise at the Hackney Business Awards 20120.