The Award for Overall  Inspirational Woman 2017 will be chosen from a combination of public, peer and Judges votes. Due to mobile phone difficulties with the Poll, this website is being temporarily switched to mobile phone friendly mode.

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Nominee Summaries: Get to know your nominees

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Sheila Rollinson  - Derby County Ladies Football Club

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A footballer since 1973 (20yrs pre FA approval) sitting on local, regional, national and international committees Sheila is a UEFA B licence coach and founder of Derby County LFC (1990). Sheila runs 9 girls’ and 3 women’s sides in 4 leagues and to celebrate her 60th in 2016 appeared in Women’s Premier League.

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Dionne Reid  - CEO Women's Work

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Dionne has led Women’s Work, a multinational award winning Charity (a staff team of 19 and 35 volunteers) since its inception in 2003. The agency supports 700 of the most disadvantaged and excluded local women. When time permits, Dionne has featured in a number of acclaimed amateur dramatic productions across Derbyshire.

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Ruchita Shaikh - CEO Artcore

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Ruchita Shaikh is a Visual Arts graduate and Director at Artcore. Her drive, ambition and passion has helped Artcore develop and thrive to become a valued creative community hub in Derby that has improved the lives of thousands of people across all cultures and brought the local community together through art.

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Rita Walia - Sahaly Woman’s Group

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Rita Chairs the “Sahaly Woman’s Group”.  The group has approximately 50 members and includes women 50+, some of whom who are disabled and isolated in the community. Many of them cannot speak English and the group meetings and activities help them to learn new skills and integrate effectively into the Community. 

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