The Leeds United Foundation, club partner Fanatics and Leeds United Managing Director Robbie Evans were proud to present Hamara with the Community Partner of the Year Award at their inaugural Supporting Our City Awards on Wednesday evening. <\/p>\n
The partnership between Hamara and the club’s official charity spans over a decade, and they have collaborated on numerous projects, helping to make a real difference to the local community.<\/p>\n
The work that has taken place through the partnership, includes grassroots activity all the way to large-scale programmes, with each project bringing opportunities and building on connections, creating a lasting impact.<\/p>\n
Hamara is set right at the heart of the community, very close to Elland Road, in Beeston, and it provides numerous provisions, including a food bank, support for older people, and even a fully inclusive gym.<\/p>\n
Hamara Project Lead, Aliya Panjwani, spoke on the partnership and said: \u201cWe have got a longstanding partnership with the Leeds United Foundation and it is something we are really thankful for. Our partnership is all about providing sports provisions across the city and in the most deprived areas.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re currently running the \u2018Active Through Football\u2019 programme and that\u2019s opened so many doors for the local community to get moving and involved with football in a completely different way than they have before.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had our Iftar at Elland Road in my first year at Hamara, and I got to experience the beauty and magic of the stadium. The minute you walked through those doors you just saw faces light up.”<\/p>\n
\u201cThis award really reflects the hard work, dedication, and shared vision of everyone involved,\u201d said Deputy Director of Hamara, Najeen Rasool. \u201cA huge thank you to Ben, Frances, and the rest of the team at the Leeds United Foundation.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re really proud of what we\u2019ve achieved together, and we\u2019re really excited for what the future holds.\u201d<\/p>\n
This award recognises Hamara not just as a partner, but as a driving force for positive change. Their passion, dedication, and belief in the power of community have helped the Foundation reach further, connect deeper, and make a real difference.<\/p>\n
From all at Leeds United, we\u2019d like to congratulate Hamara on its award and thank them for their contributions to the Leeds United Foundation.<\/p>\n
We\u2019d also like to thank the Peer Support Service for People Living With Dementia, which has been highly commended for this award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Leeds United Foundation, club partner Fanatics and Leeds United Managing Director Robbie Evans were proud to present…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-414086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115182034724614584","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}