The Women of the Year Awards 2008
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Over 400 women gathered on October 13 at the Guildhall in London for a star-studded lunch at which the 2008 Women of the Year Awards were announced. Click through our gallery to find out who won and discover some of the incredible women who attended. Here is the first...
Nina Barough was given the Outstanding Achievement Award, presented by Good Housekeeping editor, Louise Chunn.
Nina organised the first Moonwalk after she walked the New York marathon in her bra for Breakthrough Breast Cancer. Soon afterwards, she launched the Walk the Walk charity, which has raised more than £43 million.
The Barclays Women of the Year Award
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This award was given to two exceptional and selfless women, who have shown bravery, compassion and strive to make the world a better place.
Shy Keenan and Sara Payne run the Phoenix Chief Advocates, which offers independent consultation for the victims and families of sexual abuse. Sara has also tireless campaigned for the introduction of ‘Sarah’s Law’ which would give parents the right to controlled information about the whereabouts of child sex offenders
Window to the World Award
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Sarah Brown presented the Window to the World Award to Ann Cotton, a woman whose courage and determination has brought to our attention the educational deprivation of young women in Zimbabwe.
Ann created CAMFED (The Campaign for Female Education) in 1991, after she discovered that lack of financial resources was a major barrier to girls over twelve attending school. She began raising funds by baking cakes and selling them from a local market stall. Fourteen years later, she has created a £3 million charity which reaches 427,000 youngsters across Zimbabwe, Zambia, Ghana and Tanzania.
The Food for Thought Award
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Inspired by her father, who ran the charity Sight Savers, Claire Hicks has built the international IMPACT programme, which is a global initiative to prevent major causes of disability internationally. Since 1985, IMPACT has provided 630,000 operations to restore sight, mobility and hearing in 33 countries.
IMPACT is now also piloting a scheme in the UK to tackle healthy eating and runs cooking clubs and gardening schemes to provide fresh fruit, vegetables and education about healthy eating.
The fabulous and the famous
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Sandi Toksvig and Maureen Lipman CBE, join women across 40 professions, from agriculture and the arts through to media and medicine to talk on important issues.
A star-studded guest list
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Broadcaster Fern Britton also attended...
A Champagne Reception
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Claudia Winkleman and her mum Eve Pollard at the awards, squeezing in some time for a catch up.
Star-spotting
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Television presenter Fiona Bruce enjoys the ceremony.
Women of the Year 2008
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AND... Actress Felicity Kendall also makes an appearance.
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