{"id":9541,"date":"2007-12-06T15:04:55","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T15:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/12\/06\/ex-rugby-star-lands-award\/"},"modified":"2007-12-06T15:04:55","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T15:04:55","slug":"ex-rugby-star-lands-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2007\/12\/06\/ex-rugby-star-lands-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Rugby star lands award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Ikram Butt named as future leader<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"201\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"232\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/IkramButt232x180.jpg\"\/>RUGBY star Ikram Butt, founder of the British Asian Rugby Association (BARA), is celebrating after picking up a prestigious national award.<\/strong><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe 39-year-old, who played professional rugby league and represented England in the mid-nineties, was named as one of Britain\u2019s most influential Asian men by collecting the \u2018Future Leaders \u2013 Ones to Watch\u2019 award at a recent Asian Power 100 ceremony in London<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nIkram, a sport and leisure officer with Bradford Council, said: \u201cIt is a wonderful honour to have received this award at such a prestigious event and it would not have been possible without the tremendous support of many people. To feature in the Asian Power 100 publication is outstanding <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cThe role of BARA in encouraging young people to take up sport and bridging cultural and religious divides continues.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0\u201cWe have a lot to do and a number of exciting initiatives in progress both in South Asia and within UK communities,\u201d added Ikram.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0Khalid Darr, Chairman of Carter Anderson &amp; Chair of the Power 100 Panel, commented: &#8216;Judging by the applause from the guests Ikram\u2019s award was a popular choice and thoroughly deserved for all is hard work and determination.\u201d<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nBARA was praised recently by Prime Minister Gordon Brown during PM Question Time and has been officially endorsed for its work by Sports Minister Gerry Sutcliffe MP.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0BARA is an organisation which aims to provide positive role models, break down cultural &amp; religious barriers, promote community integration, personal development, healthy living and encouraging participation in sport &amp; physical activity especially in rugby. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ikram Butt named as future leader RUGBY star Ikram Butt, founder of the British Asian Rugby Association (BARA), is celebrating after picking up a prestigious national award.&#13; The 39-year-old, who played professional rugby league and represented England in the mid-nineties, was named as one of Britain\u2019s most influential Asian men by collecting the \u2018Future Leaders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9541","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=9541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}