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Are you a great City business doing good things in your community –  then enter The Lord Mayor's Dragon Awards, which celebrates its 30th year, rewarding excellence in community engagement.

Three inspirational city philanthropists are in the running for a top award as the shortlist was revealed today for the 2017 Beacon Awards – the UK’s philanthropy ‘Oscars’ - which also includes fashion icon Dame Vivienne Westwood, actor, model and entrepreneur Lily Cole and sporting stars Dame Kelly Holmes,  Amir Khan and the Brownlee brothers.

Your views are invited on how The City of London Corporation’s charity, City Bridge Trust will grant £100m to London and Londoners over five years from 2018.

City Bridge Trust’s newly-published five year draft strategy delivers a vision to ‘Bridge Divides’ and is available to read here.

A group of next generation ‘philanthropy royalty’ is looking for philanthropists to join them in their entrepreneurial, results-based approach to making change. HRH Princess Beatrice is leading an initiative raising a fund to promote and develop oracy - the ability to communicate through the spoken word – among UK kids to make a big impact on their life chances.

The vision belongs to Big Change, a charity founded by Princess Beatrice along with Sam and Holly Branson, looking to transform the way they support the next generation.