The Lord Mayor's Appeal

A City that cares

The Lord Mayor's Appeal equips young people with the knowledge, skills and real-world experience they need to obtain meaningful employment.

Focusing on the one million young people who are not in education, employment or training (NEET), The Appeal uses the Lady/Lord Mayor's unique convening power to galvanise the City community to develop employability skills, reduce barriers to work, and provide access to work experience and employment opportunities.

The Lord Mayor's Appeal identifies and supports a portfolio of organisations tackling different aspects of the NEET challenge to work in partnership with, connecting the young people those charities support with businesses and livery companies to access the opportunities they offer across the City.

The Appeal maximises its impact of by bringing together other philanthropic organisations with the Appeal’s network of business and livery company supporters to scale up successful initiatives and share what is learned collectively with policymakers, so that the City of London is playing its part to tackle the NEET challenge.