Five Talents wins City of London Award

Five Talents was awarded the Overall Winner at the City of London Sustainable City Awards at a ceremony in the Mansion House on Feb. 19. Five Talents also won their category “Sustainable and Responsible Finance.”

Zac Goldsmith handed out ‘green gongs’ at the City of London Corporation’s 8th annual Sustainable City Awards. Five Talents was saluted at the prestigious event alongside an outstanding selection of global and local organizations.

The 10 judges, including Samantha Heath CEO of London Sustainability Exchange, were impressed with the high calibre and volume of entrants, which have been backed for eight years by the City of London Corporation which looks after the square mile business district, signalling a continued commitment to green ethics in business.

Emma Bara, Sustainability Coordinator, City of London Corporation said: “The nine winning organizations, which include global businesses, local firms and social enterprises were singled out for their sustainable excellence. The awards given out this year prove that all organizations, whether large or small, can make important changes which are beneficial for the environment while also making business savings.”

Five Talents was congratulated on its work in 10 developing countries, helping more than
20,000 people to escape poverty by providing business training and small loans using the microfinance method.

Tom Sanderson, UK Director of Five Talents said “I am thrilled that Five Talents’ work has been endorsed in this way, and the true honor goes to our project staff in each country who work directly with the clients to help them to grow their businesses and to climb out of poverty.”

Zac Goldsmith, who presented the awards to the winners at the Mansion House awards ceremony last night, said: “Despite the immensity of the environmental challenge, the truth is, almost everything that needs doing is already being done, somewhere. If ‘best practice’ today became the norm tomorrow, we’d be half way there already. The Sustainable City Awards proves not only that solutions exist, but that where they are adopted, companies invariably flourish as a result.”