Sporting Equals Ambassador, Isa Guha, wins BASA Sports Personality of the Year
Isa Guha is one of the brightest stars of England’s most successful 
women’s cricket team, and a Sporting Equals Ambassador. On Saturday, she added the 2009 British Asian Sports Awards, Sports Personality of the Year to her long list of victories.
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Isa Guha, BASA Sports Personality of the Year, with Arun Kang, Chief Executive (left) and David Mbaziira, Head of Marketing & Communications of Sporting Equals
Sporting Equals Festival Year calendar
We’re pleased to offer you a free copy of the Sporting Equals festival year 
calendar - a comprehensive guide to the key cultural and religious festival dates in 2010. If you would like a copy, please email progers@sportingequals.org.uk to request one.
Supply is limited, and they will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.
Getting BME Older People Fit and Active
Funded by the National Lottery, the Age UK Fit as a Fiddle programme offers a catalyst to empower older people to live healthier, active and fulfilling lives with the support of their peers and communities.
Sporting Equals has recently been appointed National Partner to help deliver this programme as part of Fit as a Fiddle faith and community strand.
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Announcement of Partnership with the British Asian Sports Awards
Sporting Equals are proud to be working in partnership with the British 
Asian Sports Awards (BASA). This unique event which takes place on Saturday 6th February, offers a fantastic platform to showcase and celebrate the immense sporting talent that exists within the Asian community in the UK.
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Our CEO speaks out on why there are so few Asian professional footballers
Arun Kang, CEO of Sporting Equals, was recently interviewed by Operation
Black Vote about our BME Football Partnership with the Tottenham Hotspur Academy. The project aimed to get more under 16 Asian footballers engaged in professional football.
Operation Black Vote was interested in hearing our views on barriers to participation and to also learn more about the program.
Follow this link to see the interview
The new Sporting Equals newsletter is now available in an electronic format
We are pleased to attach the new Sporting Equals newsletter.
The highlights of this issue are:
- BME Football Partnership with Tottenham Hotspur Academy
- Interview with one of our ambassadors, former premiership footballer, Paul Elliott
- National partners with Age UK, delivering Fit as A Fiddle programme
- Rugby Football League are increasing BME participation
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Making the breakthrough: addressing the lack of Asian players in mainstream football
A Sporting Equals project is looking to provide football opportunities for
talented Asian boys. The catalyst for the initiative was the current lack of representation of players and volunteers from Asian backgrounds within the game. The objective is to show Asian boys within the UK that there is a pathway through to elite level football, following the successful journey of Zesh Rehman and Michael Chopra. Sporting Equals are working with delivery partner Empower Sports and the project will culminate with a trial at the Tottenham Hotspur academy.
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Minister for Sport visits Sporting Equals
The Minister for Sport, Gerry Sutcliffe MP, visited Sporting Equals in 
Birmingham on Thursday 19th November, where he met with staff and learned about the success of some 50 Community Sports Projects, which received funding under the Sports for Communities Programme in 2008.
Gerry Sutcliffe MP, also found out more about how Sporting Equals has engaged some key sporting personalities to help promote sport to black and minority ethnic groups across the UK, who are underrepresented in participation, volunteering and employment in the sector.
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Calling all BME Sports clubs in England
We are conducting a mapping exercise to log information on all the sports 
clubs that work with Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities in the regions all over England.
This information will be used to help support governing bodies of sport and others working in the sports delivery infrastructure to target services more appropriately to help disadvantaged communities.
If you are a BME led sports organisation or your work is targeted to work with BME communities and are not already registered with Sporting Equals, please follow this link for more information and to register
Many thanks for your assistance!
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