Renowned interior designer, Simrin Choudhrie, has earned applauses for her entrepreneurship, philanthropy and humanitarian
work. Born and brought up with all the privileges around, Simrin goes out of
her way to help out the lesser privileged.
She believes to really help a community; a
person needs to actually feel their plight and this thought motivated her to be
a part of the hit reality TV show Secret Millionaire and ended up donating one
of the highest amounts in the programme’s history to a Sheffield charity.
Simrin appeared as an impoverished
mum-to-be on the show and changed the lives of people at St. Wilfrid’s Centre
for the vulnerable and socially excluded. Even director Kevin Bradley was awed
to realise the woman he was instructing was a millionaire interior designer.
After everyone on the centre on Queens Road
knew her identity, she promised the six-figure sum to be donated over the next
five years.
Pleasantly surprised, Kevin said: “What she
has done for St Wilfrid’s is absolutely mind-blowing.
“When she revealed who she was it just felt
surreal - things like that don’t happen in real life, or so you think.
“The money she has pledged will make a huge
difference to the lives of vulnerable people in Sheffield.”
Kevin said Simrin’s involvement was more
than just charity as the staff and clients had gotten an amazing human being as
a friend for life.
“She is such a lovely girl,” Kevin said.
“You would never know where she came from - there was nothing pretentious about
her.
“At different points I did start to think
there was something a little mysterious about her,” Kevin said. “But I could
never really get to the bottom of it.
“When the time came for her to reveal
herself to me I’d convinced myself I was being silly - so I was certainly
shocked when she told me she was millionaire!
“She was really upset - crying that she
felt like she had been deceitful towards me - and she said she felt bad because
she had come to see me as a kind of father figure.
“Everybody was crying when she came out
with the news, we just couldn’t believe it. It was a very emotional day.”
Simrin gave birth to a son in February - a
little boy she has named Kabir Bhanu Wilfrid Choudhrie.
“That’s how much she loves the place - she
wanted to name her son after us!” Kevin said.
Sharing his delight for having met Simrin,
he added:
“We have made a friend for life in Simrin,
and that’s a wonderful thing.”
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