Over 500 people from across London gathered together to celebrate with London Tigers their Annual Award Ceremony on Thursday 13th December 2012 at the Waterlily, Stepney Green.

Karen Buck MP of Westminster North was the chief guest and attended with other special guests including Robert Evans former MEP, Towers Hamlets Councillors Oliur Rahman – Cabinet member, Cllr Rofique Uddin Ahmed – Cabinet Member, Cllr Rajib Ahmed – First Speaker, Cllr Motin Uz Zaman and others. Also present were Azizur Rahman, Honorary President of London Tigers Football Club, former Chelsea footballer Peter Rhoades-Brown and winner of Miss India Commonwealth 2012 Nima Patel

The special guests presented the awards to winners alongside London Tigers trustees Ron Bodie, Polly Islam and CEO Mesba Ahmed CEO. On behalf of the organisers, trustee Mehfuz Ahmed gave opening speech and trustee Mohammed Abdullah closed the evening.

Over 100 awards were distributed to members of the Football, Cricket and Badminton clubs along with Health, Youth and volunteering awards.

Four Special awards were given to Volunteer of the Year (Kamaljeet Pahal, 15), Young Person of the Year (Zain Shahzad), Special Recognition (Aaron Killen) and Tiger of the Year (Asma Pathan)

As well as the awards a charity auction was held that included items such as an original Olympics relay baton and a cricket bat signed by the Bangladesh national team.

London Tigers thanks all their supporters and especially the sponsors of the awards ceremony who were Pride of Asia, Direct Auto Group, JMG Cargo, Sylhet Excelsior, Bangla Town Cash & Carry, Grand Sylhet, Nowka Bias Oxford, Hamlets Training Centre, Direct Auto Services, Cricket Deal Direct, Golden Day Travel, Kingdom Solicitors, Imran’s Travel, Altaif Foreign Exchange, and Spice Business.

Sponsors with special guests ex-Chelsea footballer Peter Rhoades-Brown and Miss India Commonwealth 2012 Nima Patel

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Award Winners