IIW Inspiring Indian Women, UK celebrated IIW She Inspires Awards 2024 at the Houses of Parliament, UK

“Naari” is referred as “Shakti (Strength)”, and SHE INSPIRES award is to celebrate that Strength exhibited by women in different roles, something that Inspires others to go a Step further, to venture into the Uncharted, and thereby bringing out the best in their role. We wish to acknowledge those who have worked behind the Limelight to bring a Big Change silently, the women who have transformed Lives and Impacted those around her.

Host: Mr Bob Blackman, Honourable Member Parliament, United Kingdom

Date: 12^th March 2024, 6.00 pm to 8.00 pm

Venue: British Parliament, House of Commons – Committee Room Number 10

About the IIW She Inspires Awards 2024:

Categories:

1. Bright Artist (Art, Music, Drama, Media, Creative, age 3-20 Level 1)
2. Bright Artist (Art, Music, Drama, Media, Creative, age 21-40 Level 2)
3. Bright Artist (Art, Music, Drama, Media, Creative, age 40+ Level 3)
4. Best Entrepreneur
5. Promising Professional
6. Remarkable Mentor
7. Rising Star (Differently Abled / Special needs / Divyang)
8. Outstanding Educational Role Model
9. Special Mom / Best Home Maker
10. Champion of the Earth
11. Spirited Fighter (Defied the Odds)
12. Community Spirit (Welfare or Social Worker, Level 1 Age – 16 to 35)
13. Community Spirit – (Welfare or Social Worker, Level 2 Age – 35 plus)
14. Super Special (LGBTQ)
15. Simply Special Nani / Dadi / Granny
16. Most Popular Choice

The IIW She Inspires Awards are completely free to nominate and are managed by Sponsors and donations only.  They are open to women all over the world from any ethnicity.

The nominees go through 2 rounds of evaluation and only 40 to 50 make it to the Parliament.  A son can nominate his mom who has always kept family a priority over self, a husband can nominate his wife who has sacrificed so much including her career or someone can nominate a neighbour who has been relentlessly working hard. This award is for the ordinary who do not have any influence or money.

Honourable MP Padmashree CBE Bob Blackman (Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Harrow East since 2010) hosted this event and we are very grateful to him.  Mr. Bob also unveiled the book “Naari Shakti” during this event.

CHIEF GUEST:

Mayor of Camden, Councillor Nazma Rahman – a Labour councillor for West Hampstead Ward, currently serving in her second term. She has lived and worked in Camden her whole life, with her three children.

GUESTS OF HONOUR:

1. Lord Brennan – Former Chairman of the Bar Council of England and Wales, President of the British-Spanish Parliamentary Group and President of Canning House. He has been a King’s Counsel since 1985 and is a senior associate member of Matrix. His areas of expertise include commercial law.
2. Mr Ajay Kumar Thakur – Attaché (Coordination), High Commission of India.
3. Honourable MP Joy Morrissey – Conservative MP for Beaconsfield, and has been an MP continuously since 12 December 2019.
4. Honourable MP Shailesh Vara,
5. Honourable MP Theresa Villiers – Conservative MP for Chipping Barnet, and has been an MP continuously since 5 May 2005.
6. Honourable MP Elliot Colburn from Sutton.
7. Honourable MP Jonathan Lord from Woking.
8. Cllr Sunil Chopra – Former Mayor Southwark.
9. Prof Parag Singhal (Consultant Endocrinologist, Founder Director ournhsourconcern, Chief Executive BTA, Member Clinical Senate)
10. Cllr D Sunger – Since 2017, he has been serving as a district councillor for Chigwell Village. Presently Chairman of Epping Forest and a very successful Businessman.
11. Krishna Pujara- CEO, Saheli; Chair, Domestic Abuse Forum; President, UK-India Business Council WICCI; Chair, ALL UK PRO; NCGO Sec; Sardar Patel UK

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AWARDEES:

Part 1: IIW She Inspires Awards

1. DIFFERENTLY ABLED / DIVYANG Award
   1. Sita Patel – Winner 
   1. Karan Jammu – Winner
   1. Saylee Nandkishor Agavane – Winner
2. BRIGHT ARTIST (Art, Music, Drama, Media, Creative, age 3-20)
   1. Lakshita Singhadia – Winner 
   1. Samiksha Yerabati – Winner
   1. Nakeesha Rajput – Winner
   1. Myra Srivastava – Winner
   1. Navina Muthukrishnan – Winner
3. PROMISING PROFESSIONAL
   1. Alka Pandey – Winner 
   1. Sandhiya Prasad – Winner 
   1. Latha Balne – 1^st Runner up
   1. Sudipa Sinha – 2^nd Runner up
   1. Pranjali Nehete – 2^nd Runner up
4. SIMPLY SPECIAL Nani / Dadi / Granny
   1. Janki Shukla – Winner
5. Community Spirit (Welfare or Social Worker, Level 1 Age 16 to 35)
   1. M Andal Priyadharshini – Winner
   1. Padmavathi Pulamarasetti – Winner
6. SUPER SPECIAL AS A COUPLE LGBTQ
   1. Nicola Fenton & Raga D’silva – Winner
7. POPULAR CHOICE 
   1. Namratta Bedi – Winner
8. OUTSTANDING EDUCATIONAL ROLE MODEL 
   1. Yugasubitha Mani – Winner
   1. Vasuki Ramachandran – Winner
   1. Rajshri Jain – 1^st Runner up 
   1. Premila Puri – 2^nd Runner up 
   1. Bimmy Rai – 2^nd Runner up
9. SPECIAL MOM / BEST HOME MAKER 
   1. Hetal Jansali – Winner
   1. Mohana Priya Duggeneni – Winner 
   1. Hitanchi Bendre – 1^st Runners up 
   1. Gayatri Selvaraj – 1^st Runners up 
   1. Sniha Baruah – 2^nd Runners up 
   1. Abarna – 2^nd Runners up
10. Community Spirit – (Welfare or Social Worker, Level 2 Age- 35 plus)
    1. Smita Rajesh – Winner 
    1. Bhavana Jain – Winner 
    1. Sangeeta Rana – Winner 
    1. Sandhya Banerjee – 1^st Runners up 
    1. Rajeshri Sheth – 1^st Runners up 
    1. Poonam Paranjpe – 1^st Runners up 
    1. Krishna Baruah – 1^st Runners up
    1. Shalini Agarwal – 2^nd Runners up
    1. Gayathri Thangavelu – 2^nd Runners up
11. BRIGHT ARTIST (Art, Music, Drama, Media, Creative, age 21-40)
    1. Monidipa Seal – Winner
    1. Vallisa Rani Chauhan – Winner 
    1. Sreyashi Deb Roy – 1^st Runners up
12. REMARKABLE MENTOR 
    1. Abhha Sandill – Winner 
    1. Sangeeta Bhandari – Winner 
    1. Pallavi Prasad – 1st Runner up
13. BOBILEE BEST ENTRPRENUER
    1. Roshni Mukherjee – Winner 
    1. Sana Amin – Winner 
    1. Reina Menezes D’Costa – 1^st Runners up 
    1. Sonal Gupta – 1^st Runner up
    1. Hiral Gohil – 2^nd Runner up
    1. Meenal Sambre – 2^nd Runner up
14. CHAMPION OF THE EARTH (Environment)
    1. Sudha Srivastava – Winner 
    1. Hema Yella Pragada – Winner 
    1. Neha Khandekar – 1^st Runners up 
    1. Shraddha Chauhan – 1^st Runners up 
    1. Sonia D’Souza-Bhavsar – 2nd Runners up
15. SPIRITED FIGHTER (Defied the Odds)
    1. Nidhi Mishra – Winner
    1. Shalini Saxena – Winner
    1. Sonal Kale – Winner
    1. Gauri Mishra – Winner
    1. Neelam Chawla – 1^st Runners up
    1. Yasmine Khera – 1^st Runners up
    1. Minakshi Koch – 1^st Runners up
    1. Vasupratha Ramanathan – 1st Runners up
    1. Vishakha Mehta – 2nd Runners up
    1. Smita Mishra – 2nd Runners up
    1. Rajni Singh – 2nd Runners up
    1. Ayesha Shamim – 2nd Runners up
16. BRIGHT ARTIST (Art, Music, Drama, Media, Creative, age 40+)  
    1. Sohini Roychowdhury – Winner
    1. Rebecca Sabena Asghar – Winner
    1. Lakshmi Rajagopala – 1^st Runners up
    1. Gairika Mathur – 1^st Runners up
    1. Sanchita Bhattarcharjee – 2nd Runners up
    1. Anjali Mavi – 2nd Runners up

PART 2: IIW Dharma Dubey Special Awards

1. Cllr Anjana Patel – Community Service
2. Dr Kawal Chandok- Community Service
3. Cllr Dr Manju Shahul-Hameed – Community Service
4. Renu Gidoomal – Community Service 
5. Gita Choudhary- Community Service
6. Sneh Sunny- Spirited Fighter
7. Barkha Rani Sharma- Community Service 
8. Seema Misra – Spirited Fighter
9. Anna Kennedy OBE- Community Spirit
10. Bharti Tailor – Community Service
11. Dipti Jain – Community Service
12. Dr Jasmine Soni – Bright Artist 40+
13. Sulochana Sethi – Community Service
14. Madhusmita Jena – Community Spirit
15. Mayura Patel -Community Service
16. Premlata Agarwal- Spirited Fighter
17. Shital Kamdar – Community Spirit 
18. Selva Padmanabhan- Community Service 
19. JMD Divine Consortium – Champion of Earth
20. Rakhi Singh Gehlote – Outstanding Educational Role Model 
21. Sakshi Vishwesh – Remaekable Mentor
22. Darshana Shah – Community Service
23. Sanya Sharma – Community Spirit
24. Kuldeep Kaur Gill – Spirited Fighter 
25. Vini Kalia – Bright Artist 40 +
26. Jay Desai -Spirited Fighter 
27. Nilanjana Pal – Community Spirit 
28. Chanda Jha – Community Spirit 
29. Sunita Chaubey – Best Entrepreneur
30. Tanya Singh – Promising Professional
31. Megan Hodge – Promising Professional

Archives of the past events of IIW She Inspires Awards:
https://www.facebook.com/News18World/videos/773409329522497
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBV0Tsruwmo&t=14s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKqCgyP95Nc&t=198s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-KMoxOnK5U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P-KBbtYPWk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYnu8EVmJOg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1bY3XZCky8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWKPt48GBxk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CosjGMrgJaY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2fKzpjOUfY