Saturday & Sunday 21st / 22nd June 2025
Professional Photos Irfan Tahir WNTV
BOPA invited Miss England 2025 semi finalists & Miss World England Charlotte Grant to attend events to celebrate the Annual World Peace Festival and “Rotary Peace Pole dedication ceremony”
Charlotte was also invited to share her Miss World experience with the British Organisation of People of Asian Origin (BOPA) at an event where new Miss England semi-finalists received their new red sashes.
The following day another event to celebrate BOPA’s Annual World Peace Festival and “Rotary Peace Pole dedication ceremony” was held & attended by local dignitaries, & community members including and the British Armed Forces.
Miss England semi finalists who attended included front row L-R Himani , Afton with Charlotte Grant , Charlotte & Amy , back row L-R Maleha , Mary , Grace, Alexandra , Millie & Alize
Charlotte, a 25-year-old cosmetic brand owner from Liverpool, also attended with Miss England semi-finalists . Charlotte proudly wore a brown Indian-inspired outfit and sash, which she received in Hyderabad, India, where she competed in Miss World after the Miss England 2024 winner withdrew. She shared, “I had the best time at Miss World and made friends for life. I thoroughly enjoyed Telangana, India, and was very well looked after. The food, the Indian culture, and the people made me feel so welcome. We all had chaperones and felt very safe.”
During the event Angie Beasley director Miss England received an award from Resham Sandhu MBE in honour of 10 years of exceptional service with the charity.
Speaking at after the ceremony, Davinder Prasad JP said :
“I would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to Ms Angie Beasley, Director Miss England on behalf of Miss World for supporting BOPA’s Annual World Peace Festival held in Coventry at Peace garden, Canal Basin on Sunday 22nd June, 2025. Members of local community could see your mission “Beauty for Purpose” in action.
Miss England Director Angie Beasley received a BOPA award from Resham Sandhu MBE
The presence of Ms Charlotte Grant Miss World England during Multi Faith Prayer for World Peace and participation of Miss Mary Jennings who read message of Peace & Hope was appreciated by members of Rotary & Lion Clubs.
BOPA was celebrating 10th Anniversary of our service of local community with the help of Miss England team.
BOPA has invited Miss England to India twice when people from deprived communities in India had a chance to meet Miss England and found their support and friendship very inspiring. Both the time People of India were so grateful and had a lot of respect for Miss England and United Kingdom.
Beauty with a Purpose is the ethos of the Miss England & Miss World competitions. This year’s contestants have already demonstrated this, as they were invited to speak to BOPA Guests at Players during their first event. They spoke about what their project would be should they win the title and the opportunity to represent England at Miss World.
Semi finalists who attended the Peace Garden event included ;
Mary Jennings – (22) a Trainee Firefighter and Emergency Responder from Lincolnshire who volunteered to do a speech at the Peace Garden event which unveiled a Peace Pole
Charlotte Yeung a PhD student who reached the top 2 in the recent ITV Game the Genius Game from London
Afton McKeith – Actress, singer & movement coach & Daughter of TV nutritionist Gillian McKeith from London
Maleha Khan (25) Rocket Scientist & Pilot
Grace Richardson – (20) Theatre student from Leicester
Sharandeep (21) a law student from Coventry
Himani Patel (24) Law Student from Kent
Aliza Kanerawala (19) University Film Student
Amy Joyce Student Vetinary medicine & Millie Suiter (20) Acting Student who works in a Dementia Care home
Two Mr England finalists , Usman Janjua a boxer and model who represented England at Mr World & Baltej Tattla an accountant who represented England at Mr Global also attended .
FIREFIGHTER & EMERGENCY RESPONDER MARY JENNINGS FROM WALTHAM LINCOLNSHIRE – MISS ENGLAND 2025 SEMI FINALIST GAVE A SPEECH IN FRONT OF THE SPECIAL GUESTS
Peace in the World Speech
By Mary-Anna Jennings
It can be very difficult to think of peace when the world is in such turmoil. We are faced with wars, hatred, injustice and more. So today, I ask you to not only think about Peace, but Hope.
Hope isn’t just something fundamental – but it is a true concept. It is a phrase we use so often, we ‘Hope for the best’, were ‘Hopeful for our dreams to come true’. But aside these factors – Hope is a beacon. With hope, we can rise, spread light, love and peace. Hope brings us through dark times and onto greener pastures.
Whilst not all of us can feel Peace today – we can feel Hope. We spread it with our smiles, our stories and our actions. With Hope we are reassured things will get better, we can reach Peace once again. So today, either later on or maybe right now, I want you to think of something to be hopeful for. Be kind to yourself and give yourself that reassurance. When we learn how to do this, we can all become beacons of Hope for others. Through Hope we can spread Peace and through Peace we can spread Hope.
Peace in the World may not be happening right now; but our Hope can pave the way for Peace to shine through.
Thank you.
Fifty contestants will be invited to compete in the Miss England Semi Final on Friday 3rd October 2025 ready for the next Miss England final which will take place in November.
The search for the next Miss England for the 73rd Miss World continues apply now www.missengland.info
What is a Peace Pole : A peace Pole is a monument that displays the message “May Peace Prevail on Earth” usually using local languages meaningful to people of local community. Peace Pole is affirmation of Rotary’s goal of building culture of peace throughout the world.
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