Celebrating Lambeth’s Best Businesses

Business of the Year

The Vaults

From simple beginnings – a smart plan to reuse the Old Vic Tunnels – The Vaults has expanded in just one year to become home to: an art gallery, a soon-to-be-established theatre, the Vaults Festival for emerging artists and much more.

Entered under the Best of Start-up category, the judges felt it covered all bases – solid business growth, establishing strong ties with the local and wider Lambeth community, and making innovative and diverse use of space.  For these reasons it stood out as the overall Business of the Year.

Explore The Vaults.

Category winners

Best Start-up

• Winner – The Vaults
• Commended – Four Corners Café
• Commended – Brickwood – Coffee and Bread

Best Innovation

• Winner – Prosper 4 Group
• Commended – Payment Card Solutions

Business Gives Back

• Winner – Eden Caterers
• Commended – Brand Amplifier

Best High-growth Business

• Winner – British Security Technologies
• Commended – Simulacra Studio

Best Independent Retailer

• Winner – Fish Tale
• Commended – Max and Melia
• Commended – The Wine Parlour

Best Place to Eat and Drink

• Winner – Mimosa Delicatessen and Caterers
• Commended – I Love Coffee
• Commended – The Lido Café

People’s Choice

This year, we opened two categories to a public vote for the very first time.  For your People’s Choice awards you picked:

Best Independent Retailer

• Winner – Max and Melia
• Runner-up – Mediworld

Best Place to Eat and Drink

• Winner – Brickwood – Coffee and Bread
• Runner-up – The Walrus Bar and Hostel

Awards of Excellence

Awards of Excellence recognising the ambitions of young workers and the employers who develop them went to:

Young Person – Jack Cowley

Young Person’s Learning and Development – Premier Inn

More about the winners and finalists honoured at the event.