PRESS ROOM

Press Release: November 1,  2010

 

CICCETSS 2010 crowns 8 Class 2010/11 Culture and Charity Queens and honours its first teenage Community Champion with IVHES Awards.

Milton Keynes' Stantonbury Campus Theatre was alight with tremendous excitement from the moment the glamorous queens first set foot on the international show stage to the final curtain. The queens' opening entrance onto the stage in exotic national costumes was received with thunderous applause from a quality audience of dignitaries and the finest citizens of all nations. From start to finish, the audience was appreciative of the electrifying entertainment provided by a showcase of Commonwealth cultural excellence.

 

The highlights included the annual friendly contest between national cultural and charity queens of Commonwealth and other nations for the world's eight most prestigious  ambassadorial title crowns for the promotion of community Quality of Life improvement, the presentation of the first ever Junior International Voluntary Humanitarian and Environmental Services (IVHES) Awards trophy to a deserving teenage community champion that brought tears of joy to every eye in the house, and exhilarating cultural performances by star solo and group artists that brought the roof down.

 

As usual, there was resounding public praise from the audience for the CICCETSS. Public praise for the show included the usual acclaims of the CICCETSS as "an absolutely fantastic and fabulous show...", a "full-blooded cultural and charity event",  "an effective promoter of community cohesion...", and " can't wait to see the next show", etc. As usual, the CICCETSS proved to be the world's No. 1 quality of life improvement promotion programme and a promoter of the most entertaining and productive culture and charity pageant, by an account.

 

Eight new fabulous international queens and the first celebrated teenage community champion are the major products of this year's CICCETSS.

 

The CICCETSS Management wishes to thank the Guests of Honour, Neville Reyner, President, British Chamber of Commerce; Sharon Ho, Deputy Director, Malaysia Tourism & Promotion Board; and John Best, Business Regeneration Consultant and former Chief Executive, Milton Keynes Council;   the Show Hosts, Navrita Atwal, Director, Milton Keynes Equality Council and Ashon Spooner; the Panel of Judges; back-stage staff, media partners, musicians, dancers, stage engineers, technical staff, photographers, choreographers, caterers, venue security staff, IVHES Awards recipients, ushers, and the quality audience, among others, for their contributions to making the CICCETSS event so successful and enjoyable.

 

The show was a huge success, maintaining its usual inimitable stylish charm and we look forward with everyone to the next CICCETSS.

 

The presenters: Navrita Atwal and Ashon Spooner.

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The Results

 

Flavour of the month - Miss Commonwealth Canada - Most Popular - Loved by all

     

Danielle Miotto -

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8 New Queens Crowned For Charity

                                            

      Krizia Martin, Hannah McCuaig, Zandra Flores, Hayley Mac, Gemma Cunningham, Natalie Mitchell,  Jasmine Johnson, Doreen Wasike,

 

including perfect pair

 

and a special retention...

Jayne Taylor - Mrs Commonwealth Eternal

 - Former Mrs Commonwealth International awarded the special community champion and role model reserve title :

Mrs Commonwealth Eternal for commendable voluntary endeavour.

 

 

Eight New Queens...and Queen Amaka warms to the new team

 

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The story from the start ..... It's Introduction Time...

The national queens introduce themselves to the audience following their colourful grand opening entrance onto the

international show stage wearing national cultural costume.

      

   

 

 

 

  

   

   

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Now, you know the queens... 

See them now sporting our traditional Pink & White Sportswear.

Click the link below to see the rest of this segment.

Miss Commonwealth International Final ( The Show Pictures )

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It's Glamour time...

Queens remain in their elegant evening dress for the rest of the night.  - Await photos.

 

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Results 

MISS TEEN COMMONWEALTH INTERNATIONAL PAGEANT 

 

           

   Sade Dillworth

    Miss Teen Commonwealth England 2010/11 is Miss Teen Commonwealth International 2010/2011

    Auxilia Mushurwa

    Miss Teen Commonwealth UK 2010/11 is Miss Teen Commonwealth International 1st R/U 2010/11

   

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 MISS COMMONWEALTH INTERNATIONAL PAGEANT

                                       

     Hayley Mac -

     Miss Commonwealth England 20/11 is Miss Commonwealth International 2010/11

     Simone Fairweather -

     Miss Commonwealth Jamaica Int'l is Miss Commonwealth Int'l Ist. Runner-Up 2010/11

  

     Zoiey Marie Smale -

     Miss Commonwealth India 2010/11 is Miss Commonwealth Int/l 2nd R-Up 2010/11

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MRS. COMMONWEALTH INTERNATIONAL PAGEANT

        

    

Hannah McCuaig -

Mrs. Commonwealth England 2010/11 is Mrs Commonwealth International 2010/11

Boykanyo Trust Phenyo - Mrs Commonwealth Botswana is Mrs Commonwealth Int'l 1st Runner-Up 2010/11

Janet Powell - Mrs Commonwealth Jamaica 2010/11 is Mrs Commonwealth Int'l 2nd R-Up 2010/11

 

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ISLAND QUEENS

Natalie Mitchell - Miss Commonwealth Grenada 2010'11 is Miss Commonwealth Caribbean 2010/11

Jasmine A Johnson - Miss Commonwealth Malaysia Culture 2010/11 is Miss Commonwealth Asia-Pacific 2010/11

Doreen Wasike - Miss Commonwealth Kenya 2010/11 is Miss Commonwealth Africa 2010/11

Gemma Cunningham - Miss Commonwealth UK 2010/11 is Miss Commonwealth Euro-Atlantic 2011/11   (Photo awaited)

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QUEEN OF FRIENDS OF THE COMMONWEALTH

                 

Krizia Martin – Philipines Teen Queen Of Friends Of The Commonwealth 2010/11

Nokuthula Sithole - Zimbabwe Queen Of Friends Of The Commonwealth 2010/11

Zandra Flores - Phillipines Queen Of Friends Of The Commonwealth 2010/11

Devina Davidson - Brazil Queen Of Friends Of The Commonwealth 2010/11

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Earlier...

celebrating the start of CICCETSS 2010 at Welcome Party

 

Earlier, still...

Early birds - first to arrive at CICCETSS 2010 official on Programme Day 1

 

AWAITED: More pageant news and photos including information regarding IVHES 2010. In the meantime,  

COMING UP: A workshop day for the eight new international ambassadorial queens - Date to be confirmed,

but proposed to be last Saturday in November.

The purpose of the workshop is to develop a programme of activities with queens for them to carry out in their

year of reign, with support from the ofice.

 

IVHES Awards 2010 : Read about the two awards this year. The award in July 2010 and the award in October

2010. Nominations for the 2011 awards begin in January and close in May 2011.

 

This site is under construction...come back for more news...

Re-visit CICCETSS 2009

 

 

 

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Press Release : October 17, 2010.

National Press Release - Media Release – October 17, 2010 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Phelp Prinslyn  - Assistant Press Manager  - CCS Media PR
Phone: 020 8220 5327,  Mobile: 07961 089 730 ,  E-Mail: CCSMediaPR@aol.com

Beauty’s charitable mission…

                  

 

Sensationally beautiful mother, Jayne and daughter, Gemma are a duo dedicated to “beauty’s charitable mission” which promotes community Quality of Life improvement across the world.  They wish to broaden awareness of their charity appeals.

Created and perfected by Miss Commonwealth International, the mission involves participation, from all ages and cultural groups in the Commonwealth and rest of the world, in charitable activities, including giving support to charity events and hospices, and fundraising, in aid of quality of life improvement of the poor, the sick, the disabled, the homeless, the feeble elderly, and natural disaster victims, etc.

Jayne represents and holds the title of the married women’s and mothers’ pageant, Mrs Commonwealth International. The pageant is open to charitably inclined married women of Commonwealth origin of any age from 25 years seeking the opportunity to exercise their inner beauty, on a grand scale, in an official and authoritative capacity, as cultural and charity ambassadors, so empowered by the pageant.

As the reigning queen of Commonwealth’s married women and mothers, Jayne has undertaken and, in numerous ways, promoted many charity fundraising activities. She has made appearances  at many charitable events and has been invited to judge various national and international pageants and to host numerous high profile events in the UK and abroad. Her graceful and friendly demeanour makes her ever so approachable and pleasant company to be with, and thus, an effective and admirable representative of the pageant. As the resident host and presenter of Model Search UK she has helped the company raise over £19,000 for the charity, Breakthrough Breast Cancer. 

Gemma, the reigning Miss Commonwealth UK, is a carbon copy of her mother, in charitable disposition. Before she took the title last July, she had frequently accompanied her mother to charity events, and was looking forward to the day when she would be able to conduct the teamwork officially. She is now the proud overseer of  the pageant’s national ambassadorial cultural and charity activities in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

In addition to their said activities, the two queens have set up a joint charity fundraising appeals page on justgiving.com to raise money for  the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity.  They invite the world to support their appeal and you can do so through the  donation link  http://www.justgiving.com/beauty4hope .

The public can come along and see Jayne, Gemma and other culture and charity ambassadors in action at the Commonwealth International Cultural and Charity Evening TV-Special Showcase (CICCETSS) 2010 event at the Stantonbury Campus Theatre (www.stantonbury.org.uk)  in Milton Keynes on 30^th October 2010.  The two queens recently raised awareness of their charity appeals and of the CICCETSS when they attended the Milton Keynes and North Bucks Chamber of Commerce Awards 2010.

The CICCETSS  is a multi-purpose community Quality of Life Improvement promotion platform: As well as promoting cultural awareness, community cohesion, community empowerment, family life, volunteering, charity appeals,  and fundraising for charities, among other initiatives, the CICCETSS is the platform for the annual contest for the title of Mrs Commonwealth International which is held alongside the contests for the titles of Miss Teen Commonwealth International, Miss Commonwealth International, and Queen Of Friends Of The Commonwealth.  Other titles in the contest: Miss Commonwealth Euro-Atlantic, Asia-Pacific, Africa and Caribbean.

The unique platform also serves to promote philanthropy through the presentation of the International Voluntary Humanitarian and Environmental Services (IVHES) Awards to recognise and celebrate commendable voluntary endeavours by community champions. The honourable Dr Nelson Mandela of South Africa was one of the proud recipients of the awards in 2006.  Although Jayne and the other current title holders are about to take their final walk after crowning their respective successors at the forthcoming pageant, she is not about to leave the charity scene yet, as she is due to be honoured, at the pageant, by the title of Mrs. Commonwealth Eternal, a special reserve title for honouring outstanding performance as community Quality of Life Improvement promotion ambassador. 

Enquiries about the CICCETSS, supporting the above and other charity appeals  and joining the pageant can be made by email to misscommonwealth@aol.com or through the websites at www.ciccetss.org     www.misscommonwealthint.org.

 

 

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Press Release: July 3, 2009

 

Inner Beauty’s Charitable Pledge

Over 150 beauty queens at the “CICCETSS 2009”, to be held October 24^th 2009 in Redbridge, Greater London, pledge to use their titles to raise money for life, for charities.

               The queens are finalists selected to represent their respective Euro-Atlantic, Asia-Pacific, African and Caribbean nations in a contest for the title of “Miss Commonwealth International 2009”,  taking place within the Commonwealth International Cultural and Charity Evening TV-Special Showcase (CICCETSS) 2009 event, at the Redbridge Town Show Hall venue in London on 24^th October 2009. 

               The CICCETSS, now in its 7^th year, is a unique and spectacular not-for-profit annual international community quality of life improvement promotion programme of 53 Commonwealth Euro-Atlantic, Asia-Pacific, African, and Caribbean nations, represented by their respective national Culture and Charity Ambassadors aged 16-60.  It is a fabulous and popular family night-out and a global entertainer which  everyone looks forward to every year.

               In accordance with the purpose of the programme, the CICCETSS 2009 will showcase 1) the formal investiture and empowerment of the above finalists as authorised national culture and charity ambassadors; 2)  the collaboration of the above Commonwealth nations, represented by their respective cultural and charity ambassadors, in the celebration and promotion of cultural awareness and exchange, philanthropy, charitable giving and the other community Quality of Life improvement objectives referred to below; 3) the contest to select and crown the seven principal international cultural and charity queens of the Commonwealth as ambassadors and role models for the global promotion of the above objectives; and 4) the recognition and promotion of volunteering by the presentation of commendation certificates and the International Voluntary Humanitarian and Environmental Services (IVHES) Awards referred to below, to deserving nominees for  commendable voluntary endeavour; etc.

             The Miss Commonwealth pageant is held alongside the Miss Teen Commonwealth, Mrs Commonwealth, Miss Commonwealth Africa, Miss Commonwealth Asia-Pacific, Miss Commonwealth Caribbean, Miss Commonwealth Euro-Atlantic, Miss Commonwealth UK and Queen of Friends of the Commonwealth pageants.  

               The Miss Commonwealth pageants, where charity comes before beauty, aim to be “a charitable community initiative powered by Inner Beauty”.  The queens are ambassadors and vehicles for the promotion of the pageant’s community Quality of Life improvement objectives which include increased promotion of women’s economic and social welfare, eradication of poverty, Commonwealth unity, cultural awareness and exchange, international volunteering, philanthropy, education, tourism, children’s welfare, green issues, animal welfare and fundraising for charitable organisations and humanitarian and environmental projects across the Commonwealth and the wider international community. These are in better detail on the pageant’s websites at www.misscommonwealth.org and www.ciccetss.org

               Most of the delegates are living up to the pageant’s household name of  “Inner Beauty” as they  pledge to charity-fundraise for life, and sign up at www.justgiving.com to raise money for the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity and other registered charities, under the pageant’s charity-fundraising programme dubbed “Charity Eternal”.  The CICCETSS will present Charity Eternal Fundraiser Certificates to all participants in the programme, and crown the highest fundraiser  “Charity Queen”,  titled Miss Commonwealth Charity 2009.

               The Miss Commonwealth Pageant attracts all age groups (from 16-60 plus) of charitable inclinations, and is structured to crown 7 principal queens of the Commonwealth each year, with  the major titles of:  “Miss Teen Commonwealth International”, “Miss Commonwealth International” and “Mrs Commonwealth International”, (comprising the Triple Crown programme); and “Miss Commonwealth Euro-Atlantic”,  “Miss Commonwealth Asia-Pacific”, “Miss Commonwealth Africa” and “Miss Commonwealth Caribbean” (comprising the cultural promotion programme).

               A Spokeswoman for the pageant explained: “The 7-title structure promotes increased community participation from three age groups and all four cultural sectors of the Commonwealth, in the promotion of the pageant’s community Quality of Life improvement aims and objectives, nationally and internationally.”  This also promotes cultural exchange and re-invigorates the Commonwealth.

               The pageant now has over 700 culture and charity queens around the world, and the number is growing, annually.  This represents a strong charity fundraising force and influence on community charitableness. These unsung heroes and community champions include the likes of  Jayne Slatter, Miss Commonwealth England 2004/6 who raised over £800,000, and Amanda Jane Taylor, the reigning Miss Commonwealth Scotland and Miss Commonwealth Charity International, whose endless list of charitable works and charity-fundraising, in excess of £1Million, earned her  the invitation, by the Lord Provost of Aberdeen City and the Lord Provost of Aberdeen Shires, to be an ambassador for the North-East region. She is to be further honoured by the pageant by the award of the title of Miss Commonwealth Eternal at the CICCETSS 2009.  There is more about her on  her  website at www.amandajayne.co.uk.

               This  year’s delegates are aiming to equal or exceed and build on the achievements of the reigning queens and their  predecessors who managed to raise a record sum in excess of £4Million for registered charities around the world, in the two years to December 2006.

            The CICCETSS 2009 programme will include the presentation of commendation certificates and the International Voluntary Humanitarian and Environmental Services (IVHES) Awards 2009 to deserving nominees for commendable voluntary endeavour, to celebrate and promote international volunteering. Proud previous recipients of the award include the Honourable Dr. Nelson Mandela of South Africa.

              The CICCETSS 2009 presents various sponsorship opportunities together with commercial benefits and rewards for sponsors. These are outlined on the website at http://www.ciccetss.org/support_for_ciccetss_2009.htm.     Participation  in   the  sponsorship    opportunities   is   a  prudent   commercial   investment   in promoting, marketing and branding a sponsor’s business or products, while rewardingly fulfilling essential Corporate Social  Responsibility  obligations  as well as  helping  invaluably  to  promote  the  programme’s good causes.

               Green and leafy Redbridge, aptly boasting a maple leaf as its corporate logo, was chosen as the ideal host venue for the event because the East London town’s envied cosmopolitan profile is reminiscent of the Commonwealth cultural diversity celebrated and promoted  by the event.

 

           Author: CCS Media PR                                                      Garamond

 

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Press Release - January 3, 2009

The contest for the prestigious Miss Commonwealth International 2009 title crown is scheduled to take place as a major item of the CICCETSS 2009 programme on 31 October 2009, at an exquisite London venue.

        The CICCETSS (Commonwealth International Cultural and Charity Evening TV-Special Showcase) is an annual event which promotes cultural exchange and philanthropy and involves participation from Commonwealth African, Asia-Pacific, Euro-Atlantic and Caribbean nations.

        The cultural and charity evening is a red carpet sensation which will be beamed to an estimated 2.5 billion global audience and it will showcase the rich cultural diversity of the Commonwealth and other themes, including the promotion of unity, fundraising for global giving and cultural awareness, etc.

        The beauty pageant, which will include various supporting activities, will showcase over 100 national beauty queens representing 53 Commonwealth nations and others queens from other nations in the rest of the world and specially identified, in the programme, as Friends of the Commonwealth .

        The unique pageant, which is a multicultural community empowerment platform for women of all ages, facilitates their effective participation in the promotion of community Quality of Life improvement. To this end, the pageant is structured to produce 8 queens, as international role models, at each annual international contest, with the respective titles of "Miss Commonwealth International", "Miss Teen Commonwealth International", "Mrs Commonwealth International", "Miss Commonwealth Africa", "Miss Commonwealth Asia-Pacific", "Miss Commonwealth Euro-Atlantic", "Miss Commonwealth Caribbean" and "Queen Of Friends Of The Commonwealth".

        The queens' respective roles include the general role of helping to promote the pageant's aims and objectives, including "the promotions of cultural awareness, unity, family values, good parenthood, education, poverty eradication, tourism and fundraising for charitable organisations and humanitarian and environmental projects", etc. The aims and objectives are reflected in the titles awarded to national finalist contestants in the final selection processes leading to the international contest.

        The proceeds from the show will go to various charities, including the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity, Cancer Research UK, NSPCC, WEN, among others.

        The CICCETSS event is a fabulous and popular family night-out and a global entertainer which  everyone looks forward to every year.

 

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The reigning corporate Queen of the Mrs - Mrs Commonwealth International (Hannah McQuaig) and 1st. and 2nd. Runners Up (Janet Powell - Jamaica; and Boikanyo Trust Phenyo - Botswana )  know the  joy of taking part and being formally empowered as national and international culture and charity ambassadors... the joy  of serving the global community as true role models for women.

                   

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The reigning Miss Commonwealth International (Hayley Mac - England) and 1st. and 2nd Runners-Up: Simone Fairweather -Jamaica; Zoiey Marie Smale - India)

 

         

 

      

         

2009-2010 Joanna Peagrum Miss CW Int'l

 

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The reigning Miss Teen Commonwealth Int'l (Sade Dillworth

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