Thanksgiving Community Service Awards

Thanksgiving Community Service Awards.

On Sunday October 25th, representing WFWP and UPF, my husband, David, and I were very privileged to be one of a number of people invited to receive a Thanksgiving Community Service Award, recommended by Dhiren Katwa, a longstanding friend, who has followed and reported about our peace activities for 30 years. He is a renowned journalist and founder of Karma PR, the organisation conducting the evening. In the Programme, Dhiren stated that the award is meant to "...honour those quiet people whose service, honesty and integrity strengthen our communities". Certainly, all the other awardees that we met fell into that category. The awards were presented by Sir Andy Street CBE, formerly a Mayor of the West Midlands for 7 years.

In the programme were Goodwill Messages from the Prime Minister, Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP, the Home Secretary, Rt Hon Shabana Mahmood MP, the Office of the Opposition Leader, Rt Hon Kemi Badenoch MP, several Members of the House of Lords, and the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner, Simon Foster. It was a memorable evening, inspiring to meet so many people of good will under the one roof, and an incentive for all of us to continue a life of service to others, in what can often be a very challenging society and world.

We felt so moved to receive our award, especially thinking about all the good -hearted people with whom we have been working together for so long, inspired by the amazing vision of WFWP and UPF.