REDBRIDGE CELEBRATES FOURTH COMMUNITY AWARDS
(10 December 2004)

The fourth Redbridge Cultural Association’s Awards Night, for the unsung heroes of Redbridge, was a highly spirited event held on Friday 10th December 2004. The Community Awards – ‘the Pride of Britain Awards’ of Redbridge – honour the borough’s unsung heroes and promote Redbridge as a diverse London borough. With 10 award categories and 3 Lifetime Achievement Awards the final nominees included a wide variety of talent and recognised achievements across all spheres of life and sections of the community.

Award categories included Sports Personality, Charity Worker, Doctor of the Year, Culture and Arts, Service to the Community, Head Teacher of the Year, Media, Business Personality, Policeman of the Year and Local Councillor of the Year.

Chairman of the Redbridge Cultural Association, Councillor Suresh Kumar said: It was a fantastic event and well attended by the Community of Redbridge, All the Award nominees and winners were well deserved, it’s a pity we could not give all an Award to show our appreciation for their good work. I hope that everyone present will go away with my message of hope and goodwill to all and the Awards will inspire others to join the family of Award winners in Redbridge.

The award winners were:

• Sports Personality: Paul Alvarez
  Award Presented By: Cllr Elaine Norman
• Charity Worker: Poppy Baker MBE
  Award Presented By: Mr Chris Carter
• Doctor of the year: Dr W Soloman
  Award Presented By: Cllr Hugh Cleaver
• Culture and Arts: Mr Eric Forder
  Award Presented By: Mr Raj Gautam – Western Union
• Service to Community: Mrs Barbara Hills
  Award Presented By: Mr Norman Gumby
• School Head/Teacher: Mr Dan Mohiyan
  Award Presented By: Mrs Doreen Weller
• Press/Media: Ms Antigone Forder of Ilford Recorder
  Award Presented By: Col Alan Hall
• Business Personality: Mr Anthony Clark
  Award Presented By: Ms Ann Ford, Universal/Britannia Music
• Policeman of the Year: PC John Duff
  Award Presented By: Chief Inspector Carl Lindley
• Local Councillor: Cllr John Coombes
  Award Presented By: Cllr Laurence Davies
• Lifetime Achievement Awards:
  Mrs Joanne Balcombe
  Award Presented By: Mr Ranjit Singh OBE
• Mr Peter Lawrence
  Award Presented By: Mrs Linda Perham MP
• Mr S S Mittal
  Award Presented By: Mr Humera Khan- Club Asia Radio

The Redbridge Cultural Association can be contacted on Telephone No: 020 8478 9782

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