Amazing Women 50 Over 50 Awards your chance to get involved and nominate someone special
Get involved in celebrating how fantastic grown-up women are!
Here at w&h we recognise that midlife women are, finally, having their moment. Which is why we’re launching a fabulous award, taking inspiration from all the amazing women featured here, to celebrate all those women making a difference.
and we want you, our incredible readers, to get involved. there will be ten categories, and for two of those we are inviting you to nominate the shortlist and vote for the final winner. over the coming months we’ll be featuring the nominees category by category. these are:
✢ social influencers best bloggers and vloggers shouting about midlife.
✢ changing our country From politicians to policewomen, putting themselves on the line for us.
✢ shaping the future Working with children for a better world for all of us. ✢ groundbreakers Women making a difference in new and interesting ways. ✢ Best in business Doing exciting things in the world of work.
✢ super entrepreneurs inspiring stories of business start-ups. ✢ champions of the arts Fuelling our passion for culture.
✢ celebrities doing good stars of stage and screen who also do wonderful work for charity.
✢ plus our two reader-nominated categories: community heroes and Friendship above and beyond. Nominate any woman you think deserves to be noticed (see box, right, for how to enter). the winners will be announced in
our November 2018 issue.
“Have no regrets. Learn to be comfortable with saying no to people. Define your moral code – nobody else is going to do that. Keep asking questions, keep challenging. And as my mother always said, ‘Don’t let anyone break your spirit!’” Nicole Kidman
“i do believe that one of the great things that has happened in my working life is the extraordinary change in the position of women. however, that is not where it should be, yet.” Cressida Dick, Metropolitan Police Commissioner
“Whatever money you might have, self-worth really lies in finding out what you do best.” JK Rowling, author
“It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it.” Julie Walters
“success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends and the universe that you believe you can do something different.” Dame Natalie Massenet, founder of Net-a-Porter and Farfetch
“I’m embracing the age I am... and I’m looking forward to the next step of the journey.” Oprah Winfrey
“While i am flattered and proud to have been the first woman to be appointed as a law lord in 2004, i don’t want to be the last.” Brenda Hale, the Supreme Court’s first female President