As part of his 90th birthday celebrations, Sir Anwar Pervez, OBE H Pk, was honoured to be invited to join Their Majesties for Tea at the Royal Box at the Royal Ascot Races on the 20th June.
By honouring Sir Anwar, The King has shown his deep appreciation of the significant contribution that the founder of Bestway has made to the British Society over his 60-year career.
Sir Anwar immigrated from Pakistan to the UK in 1956, having worked in various jobs in Bradford, he then moved to London and set up his first retail store in 1963; he founded Bestway in 1976. Through his business and charitable endeavours, he has a long history of encouraging entrepreneurship and furthering dynamism, especially within marginalised communities of the country.
The Bestway Foundation – the Charitable Trust Sir Anwar founded in 1987 has a had a long association of working with Royal Charities – the British Asian Trust; the Duke of Edinburgh Awards; Pakistan Recovery Fund and the Princes Trust.
To date Bestway Foundation has donated over £44m to charitable causes, schools, universities and hospitals in the UK.
Every year Bestway Group hosts its charity race day at the Royal Ascot; this year’s main beneficiary charity was the British Asian Trust (BAT).
BAT was founded in 2007 by His Majesty King Charles III. The charity is a diaspora-led international development organisation, delivering high-quality programmes in South Asia and specialises in, and champion the use of, social finance products to drive positive change across the region. The group seeks to make a South Asia that is free from poverty by unlocking the potential of disadvantaged people in South Asia by maximising the impact and support from the South Asian diaspora and beyond.
