Every year since 1997 all of London’s 31 Boroughs, along with the City of Westminster, have been invited to enter the Parade with some form of entertainment based on the annual Parade theme and to demonstrate the diversity of our great city. The entry can take the form of an act, float, performance, dance ensemble, or all the above, making the Borough entries the heart of London Parade.
All entries are automatically entered into the Boroughs’ Competition, competing for a share of the £50,000 charity prize pot. Since the first Parade in 1987, LNYDP has raised well over 2 million pounds for London charities.
Parading along the London Parade route, entertaining huge crowds packing the streets of London and sharing the pride in your local community’s achievement has become one of the most exciting annual events in the Mayoral year.
If you want your local London Borough to be represented at London Parade, you can make a formal request via email.
Find the contact for your local London Borough below:
The City of Westminster – lordmayorsoffice@westminster.gov.uk
The Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames – mayors.office@kingston.gov.uk
The Royal Borough of Greenwich – mayor@royalgreenwich.gov.uk
The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea – the.mayor@rbkc.gov.uk
London Borough of Barking & Dagenham – mayor@lbbd.gov.uk
London Borough of Barnet – mayor@barnet.gov.uk
London Borough of Bexley – mayors.office@bexley.gov.uk
London Borough of Brent – mayor@brent.gov.uk
London Borough of Bromley – mayors.office@bromley.gov.uk
London Borough of Camden – mayor@camden.gov.uk
London Borough fo Croydon – the.mayor@croydon.gov.uk
London Borough of Ealing – mayor@ealing.gov.uk
London Borough of Enfield – mayor@enfield.gov.uk
London Borough of Hackney – speaker@hackney.gov.uk
London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham – mayor@lbhf.gov.uk
London Borough of Haringey – mayors.office@haringey.gov.uk
London Borough of Harrow – mayor@harrow.gov.uk
London Borough of Havering – mayor@havering.gov.uk
London Borough of Hillingdon – mayor@hillingdon.gov.uk
London Borough of Hounslow – mayor@hounslow.gov.uk
London Borough of Islington – the.mayor@islington.gov.uk
London Borough of Lambeth – mayoroflambeth@lambeth.gov.uk
London Borough of Lewisham – damien.egan@lewisham.gov.uk
London Borough of Merton – mayor@merton.gov.uk
London Borough of Redbridge – mayorsoffice@redbridge.gov.uk
London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames – mayors.office@richmond.gov.uk
London Borough of Southwark – mayors.office@southwark.gov.uk
London Borough of Sutton – mayor.sec@sutton.gov.uk
London Borough of Tower Hamlets – speaker@towerhamlets.gov.uk
London Borough Waltham Forest – mayor@walthamforest.gov.uk
London Borough of Wandsworth – mayor@wandsworth.gov.uk
London boroughs competed for a large cash prize pot for their respective mayoral charities with entries that wowed spectators.
1st Place: £15,000 – London Borough of Lewisham
2nd Place: £10,000 – London Borough of Sutton
3rd Place: £5,000 – Royal Borough of Greenwich
Other winners include (In no particular order):
Since 1997 we have had some outstanding entries in this competition.
1997, the very first London Borough winning entry was Havering with their float celebrating 750 years of Romford Market. They scooped £5,000.
1998, Combined Boroughs of Greenwich and Lewisham with their DLR train ‘Light Fantastic’ powered by liveried rollerbladers.
1999, Redbridge with their float ‘Hold The Front Page’
2000, Southwark with ‘Southwark World Village 2000’
2001, Sutton, with their entry celebrating fashion and recycling
2002, Redbridge with ‘Nursery Rhyme Memories’
2003, Southwark with ‘Southwark Summers’
2004, Hammersmith and Fulham with ‘Albert and Friends Instant Circus’.
2005, The City of Westminster evoking the Spirit of Wartime London.
2006, Merton with their float ‘Merton Abbey Mills’
2007, The City of Westminster with ‘Magic of Covent Garden’ winning £7,000
2008, Ealing represented by South Connections performing ‘De Journey Now Start’
2009, Merton with ‘Merton’s Winter Wonderland’
2010, Brent with ‘Let Us Entertain You.’
2011, The City of Westminster with ‘Alice in Wonderland’
2012, Combined Westminster & Merton with their ‘Olympic & Diamond Jubilee’ entry
2013, Merton with their ‘Hats Off to London – Celebration Capital of the World’ entry
2014, The City of Westminster with ‘Westminster is Go’
2015, Enfield – with “Under your own Stream”
2016, Hillingdon with “Dreams Come True in Hillingdon”
2017, City of Westminster with ‘Mary Poppins’
2018, City of Westminster with ‘Westminster’s World of Panto’
2019, London Borough of Sutton
2020, London Borough of Brent
2023, London Borough Redbridge
2024, London Borough of Sutton
2025, London Borough of Lewisham