Channel S Award Winners 2010
by st contributor Sunday 11th April 2010
Tonight saw the 3rd Annual Channel S Awards honouring exemplary individuals and organisations who have shown commitment, creativity and innovation to make significant contributions to British/Bangladeshi society.
From this year the Cultural Award will be known as the “Baul Shomrat Shah Abdul Karim” Award in tribute to the legendary folk singer.
Also new this year the Posthumous Award for Contributions to the Community recognising the work of those who are no longer with us.
The gala event was attended by an audience of over 500 of the great and the good from all over the country including many MP’s and prospective parliamentary candidates like Tower Hamlets Rushanara Ali.
Other personalities present included Iqbal Ahmed OBE, Anwar Choudhury (former High Commissioner to Bangladesh), Stephen Timms MP, Anne Maine MP and Frank Dobson MP.
To set the scene a video of was shown of previous awards events.
The programme was presented by BBC3′s Tasmin Lucia Khan with music for the night was performed by up and coming R&B artists Mamzy of Bangladeshi origin, Rubayat Jahan, Hashi Rani and Poroshmoni.
The awards were:
Award for Contribution to the Community – Midlands goes to, Gulam Mustafa Choudhury
Award for Contribution to the Community – North goes to Makhlisur Rahman
Award for Contribution to the Community – London goes to Shahena Ali (who is also a celebrity chef)
Award for Contribution to the Community – South goes to Syed Aminul Haque
Award for Contribution to the Community – Wales goes to Sheikh Tahir Ullah
Award for Contribution to the Community – Scotland goes to Dr Mozammel Haque
Award for achievement in Education – GCSE goes to Ibtesham Tausif Hossain and also to Yasmin Jolly from Oldham with 16 GCSE A-Stars
Award for achievement in Education – A Level goes to Taslima Haque And Promit Anwar
Award for achievement in Education – Graduate goes to Rehana Khanam
Award for achievement in Education – Post Graduategoes to Dr Dhalia Masud
Award for achievement in Education – Research Dr Nazrul Islam
Best Community Organisation – London Tigers
Investor of the Year in Bangladesh – Barkatullah Electro Dynamics Ltd
Business Personality of the Year – Wazid Hasan Shelim
Friend of Bangladesh – Sue Davies
The Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Abdul Matin
The Baul Shomrat Shah Abdul Karim Award for Contribution to Culture goes to Himangshu Goswami
The Posthumous Award was to the late Tasadduk Ahmed MBE
The Channel S Special Award for Contribution by a Bangladeshi on the world platform went to Partha Pratim Majumdar.
