We conclude our bi-monthly series of Mayor’s Progress reports with our final report card. Though any Lord Mayor wishes she or he could claim credit for creating jobs (all those dinners, speeches, promotional activity, videos, overseas visits, etc.), in fact, during this year as Lord Mayor, from November 2023 to November 2024, jobs in the City of London increased from 615,000 to 678,000 – yes, in just one year, an increase of over 10%!

This is teamwork though. My sincere thanks must go to the City of London Livery Community, the Livery Committee, the Mansion House staff, the Corporation staff (especially Chris Hayward and Ian Thomas), fellow Aldermen & Common Councillors, the Lord Mayor’s Appeal team, my Chaplain Alan McCormack, the team at Z/Yen, to our entire City of London community, and HM Government support – and Elisabeth and the family!

So let’s have a look – on other metrics:

• Six big initiatives delivered:
  • 695th Lord Mayor’s Ethical AI Initiative;
  • 695th Lord Mayor’s Space Protection Initiative;
  • 695th Lord Mayor’s Smart Economy Networks Initiative;
  • 695th Lord Mayor’s Constructing Science: Offices To Labs Initiative;
  • GALENOS mental health project, £7,500,000 raised to start GALENOS;
  • Sustainability Initiative;
• £900,000 raised for Christ’s Hospital 695th Lord Mayor’s 350th year Royal Mathematical School Bursary;
• weight gain – close to nil, though not nil (!);
• air miles – between 55,000 and 60,000.

Our final Connect To Prosper report card is as follows:

We have an impact report on our 103 online Knowledge Miles Lecture Series:

We have an impact report on our 25 Coffee Colloquies:

My sincere thanks to everyone who helped make this fantastic year possible!