19 Members of the Shaathi Mentoring Project visited the Ice Skating Rink in London Docklands as part of their monthly group session. For some of the participants it was their first time attempting to skate and for others, it was a walk in the park! Mentors and young people on the programme had the opportunity… Read more

AQA Level 1 Cake Decorating Course Seven young women completed a one day cake decorating course at Osmani.   Led by tutor from Life skills development the session gave young women an opportunity to explore their creative talents in baking and decorating.  The young women learnt various techniques for decorating cakes using butter cream, chocolate and… Read more

Osmani Trust Health Trainers are delivering ‘Quit to Get Fit’ scheme for locally based community football clubs. The scheme aims to help local football clubs with providing FREE football equipment, opportunities for FREE gym and swimming sessions along with a commitment to getting local people fit and smokefree. In order to qualify and register, Clubs… Read more

A new era has started for Clichy FC as they dominated the East London Summer League and claimed their first League trophy. Clichy FC’s season didn’t start as they would’ve hoped, losing their first game to Elite Youth 2-1. They redeemed themselves by beating their local rivals ACE FC 2-0. This was the beginning of… Read more

Elite Youth and BLYDA are spearheading a major capital programme in partnership with the Tower Hamlets Council. We are proposing to develop the Osmani Centre into a state of the art facility for young people and the local community. To help facilitate this major undertaking the Osmani Development Trust has been established. Pre-liminary meetings with… Read more

The Football in the Community project closed the curtains on another very successful school based coaching year with a fantastic girl’s tournament held at Christ Church School in Brick Lane. More than fifty girls from Christ Church, Osmani, Stewart Headlam and Smithy Street school came together to celebrate the hard work over the year and… Read more

Osmani Trust were invited by the national organisation Kick It Out to present the Football in the Community Project (FITC) to a host of guests, professionals, London based amateur clubs and community groups that are looking for ideas on projects that use football to address social issues at the London One Game event. Abdal Ahmed… Read more

Challenges in sport. Social experiences. Cultural enrichment. Dana Cup has it all. Over the last 26 years more than half a million participants from over a 100 nations have made Dana Cup known all around the world. Denmark’s largest sporting event and the world’s third largest youth football tournament; Dana Cup has a unique international… Read more

On Wednesday the 10th September TH Council confirmed an investment of £3.3million pounds towards the capital re-development of the Osmani Centre. For many years the building has been in a state of disrepair. Elite Youth and BLYDA have been pressing for action to be taken and we are delighted that after so many years the… Read more