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PM congratulates Shetty for diversity award


9/ 7/2008

The Next Step Foundation honoured Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty with a Global Diversity Award at the annual Diversity Gala Dinner, which took place at the Riverbank Park Plaza Hotel in London.

British Prime Minister, Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP, met Shilpa Shetty at the Houses of Parliament earlier in the day to congratulate her on winning the lifetime achievement award, which acknowledges her contribution to public appreciation and understanding of diversity.

At the evening gala dinner, guest of honour,  Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, David Miliband presented Shilpa Shetty with the special award on behalf of the Next Step Foundation

Alongside Shilpa, British racing driver Lewis Hamilton was also presented with an award at the dinner.

The Next Step Foundation is a non-partisan not-for-profit organisation that promotes and celebrates diversity and leadership development issues in the UK. The key mission of the Foundation is to ensure that diversity is kept at the top of Britain’s agenda, by encouraging action and stimulating discussion at the highest levels of the public and private sectors.

Previous recipients of the award have included singer and UK Ambassador for the Food and Agricultural Organisation, Dionne Warwick; movie star and goodwill ambassador for the United Nations’ Children’s Fund, Jackie Chan; and one of the biggest names in British news broadcasting and the UK’s first black woman newsreader, Moira Stuart.


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