00:00This is such a joy for me to be here this afternoon, and indeed for my two deputy lieutenants, Sheila and Olivia,
00:10both of whom spent a lot of time with you, I think, to do the assessment which went towards the award this afternoon.
00:21This is such an important and wonderful day for you, and it is a great honour and a great privilege for me to be here
00:29to award, in the name of His Majesty the King, the King's Award for Voluntary Service.
00:36It's not an easy thing to get. You have done so brilliantly.
00:42It's very rigorously assessed, and a lot of people look at it.
00:49It goes across the desks of many, many people, and of course, a lot of people apply, and many people sadly do not get it.
00:58So please, I really hope that you feel very proud of yourselves.
01:04You do extraordinary work within your community and within the community of Crawley.
01:11And indeed, as that wonderful video said, your reach goes outside of that.
01:17But I think, too, what is so important is that you inspire your young people, our young people.
01:27And I think, personally, that a knowledge of culture, where the traditions, the cultures of both the country they live in here,
01:36and indeed your countries, is so important, because that's where people's roots are.
01:43That's what gives them heart. And you help that.
01:48And thank you, because it's such valuable work, such incredibly valuable work nowadays.
01:54I really do applaud you for that.
01:56Now, I've come to the more serious bit, and I'm going to ask Sheila, please, to read you the words on the warrant of award on behalf of the King.
02:11Charles III, by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,
02:22and of our other realms and territories, King, defender of the faith,
02:28to the TANEL Learning Centre Crawley, promoting, supporting, celebrating, and educating the TANEL and wider community in West Sussex.
02:42Greetings.
02:44We, being cognizant of the said group's outstanding voluntary work in the community,
02:50and being desirous of showing our royal favour,
02:55do hereby confer upon it the King's Award for Voluntary Service,
03:02for Voluntary Service by Groups in the Community 2024,
03:09for such period as the group continues to provide its current service,
03:14and do hereby give permission for the authorised emblem of the said award to be displayed on the group's letterhead
03:24and other public material,
03:27given at our Court of St James' under our Royal Sign Manual this 14th day of November 2024,
03:39in the second year of our reign,
03:41and it is signed by the King.
04:11Lord Ouaisjima, I know him, I know all high-service,
04:14and all counselors, and all the leaders, liquidity dealers,
04:19everyone.
04:22I cannot imagine that this is where I have no works,
04:27because he starts from one of the co-founders,
04:30and he starts from a Lithian banner,
04:32also a co-founder and everyone,
04:36not only me, too many people involved, some people behind us, everywhere in the UK of all over the world.
04:47Everyone, everyone.
04:53Thank you for our volunteers, our community, our local government, and also all the key sector departments, everyone, because this is all our host.
05:16More work, more achievement, and more support, and recognize it's very important.
05:23Also mainly we, from civil war, from Sri Lanka, we live like a medicine.
05:35We need a lot of fame.
05:39Thank you again for the British government, British people, all British people.
05:46Thank you again.
06:15Thanks.
06:23We will be, of course, in the UK.
06:32Try myself.
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