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On 22nd February 2014, 900 students from across the country gathered at Tipton Sports Academy, West Midlands for NHSF (UK)\u2019s Annual Sports Competition. This year was a landmark for our sports completion, not only was it the 10th anniversary, but we had a record 128 teams competing in Badminton, Football, Kabbadi, Kho-Kho and Netball from 34 of our affiliated Hindu societies from across the UK. <\/p>\n
The day displayed impressive sporting capabilities that Hindu students in the UK possess. The sporting talent wasn\u2019t the only activity for athletes and spectators to partake in. Our National Learning Team featured prominently on the day by encouraging students to engage with Hindu Dharma through various activities, discussions and publications such as our bi-annual Hum magazine. They promoted a number of upcoming NHSF (UK) Bhakti events including NHSF Huddersfield’s Mahashivratri Puja, Central Zone’s 108 Hanuman Chalisa at the Laxminarayan Mandir in Birmingham on 1st March and the final event a Krishna Kirtan at Ilford Mandir on Saturday 8th March.<\/p>\n
Sewa or selfless service is an integral part to all activities we do. We continued our long standing support for Anthony Nolan, the charity which aims to raise awareness of blood cancer and blood disorders. This is increasingly important for the Asian community where there is only a four percent chance of finding a bone marrow match. We actively encourage all attendees to find out more about why it is imperative for Asians to register, and also provide the services for people to register through a simple spit test. Other Sewa initiatives on the day included activities finding out what love means to students and using questionnaires to raise awareness on domestic abuse. It was also the weekend before our Annual Sewa week, the National Sewa Team were on hand to discuss potential initiatives our members could get involved with in addition to their activities.<\/p>\n
NHSF (UK) would like to congratulate the winners of the day:After an enlivening 121 matches played, the winners are:
\nFootball- NHSF Aston
\nNetball- NHSF Warwick
\nKho-Kho- NHSF Manchester
\nBadminton- NHSF University of East Anglia
\nKabbadi- NHSF Manchester<\/p>\n
NHSF (UK) would like to congratulate all students who participated in the games and the spectators who cheered home their teams. The hard work and training put in through the year leading to the Annual Sports Competition was clearly on display, which inevitably made the day a success. All matches were played with a high level of professionalism, skill and team spirit. For more information on NHSF (UK), please email prteam@nhsf.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On 22nd February 2014, 900 students from across the country gathered at Tipton Sports Academy, West Midlands for NHSF (UK)\u2019s Annual Sports Competition. This year was a landmark for our sports completion, not only was it the 10th anniversary, but we had a record 128 teams competing in Badminton, Football, Kabbadi, Kho-Kho and Netball […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":2954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[732],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhsf.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhsf.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhsf.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhsf.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhsf.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhsf.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhsf.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhsf.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhsf.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhsf.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}