{"id":28552,"date":"2019-02-25T12:55:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T12:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=28552"},"modified":"2019-02-25T13:10:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T13:10:17","slug":"sajid-rashid-tops-the-british-muslim-awards-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/25\/sajid-rashid-tops-the-british-muslim-awards-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Sajid Rashid\u2019 Tops The British Muslim Awards 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Winners for the 7th British Muslim Awards are now revealed following a glamorous black tie event in the city of Bradford on Tuesday 19th February at the Bradford Hotel after 300 of the most remarkable British Muslims were shortlisted as finalists.\u00a0<\/strong>\"\"<\/p>\n

The awards were held to recognise a wide range of achievements from outstanding Muslim individuals across the UK who positively impact business, charity, sport, arts, culture, religious advocacy, education and medicine among others, and simultaneously and unknowingly battle negative stereotypes every day. The awards endeavor to showcase the strength of the British Muslim community, the impact it has on culture and its achievements over the last year as well as highlighting the significant role Muslims play in contributing to a better Britain.<\/p>\n

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Sajid Rashid BEM, a multi-award winning Philanthropist from Burton-on-Trent was in attendance at the award ceremony on Tuesday night as a finalist, where it was announced on the night to their delight that he had won the \u2018One to Watch\u2019 award category.<\/p>\n

Sajid is regarded as one of Britain\u2019s most inspirational figures scooping many of the UK\u2019s Top national accolades including The National Diversity Awards & JCI UK\u2019s Ten Outstanding Young Person (TOYP) awards.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an honour and privilege to accept this award, firstly I would like to thank the lord almighty for everything he has blessed me with & also congratulations to all the finalists and winners, win or lose in my eyes you are all winners. It people such as yourselves that put the \u2018Great\u2019 back into Great Britain.\u201d \u2018Sajid Rashid\u2019 <\/b>said in delight.<\/p>\n

Irfan Younis, CEO of Oceanic Consulting said: \u201cI\u2019d like to congratulate all the winners and every finalist from the 7th British Muslim Awards 2019. Every year I think we\u2019ve seen the best the British Muslim community has to offer but every year I\u2019m blown away by just how special the talent is and just how hard people work to service their communities. I already look forward to seeing what next year has to offer; I have no doubt that the Muslim community will continue to thrive and act as leaders for future generations to come.\u201d\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Winners for the 7th British Muslim Awards are now revealed following a glamorous black tie event in the city of Bradford on Tuesday 19th February at the Bradford Hotel after 300 of the most remarkable British Muslims were shortlisted as finalists.\u00a0 The awards were held to recognise a wide range of achievements from outstanding Muslim […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,98,112],"tags":[1270,1271,1987,1986,1535],"class_list":["post-28552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-press-releases","category-top-stories","tag-irfan-younis","tag-oceanic-consulting","tag-sajid-rashid","tag-the-british-muslim-awards-2019","tag-the-national-diversity-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}