November 2011

For immediate reIease

Students try and score for charity


Students from Leeds Metropolitan University will be putting their skills into
practice by volunteering at the Rugby Legends vs Commons and Lords
Pakistan Recovery Fund Pro-elebrity Rugby Match at Twickenham Stadium
on Thursday 10 November.

Founder and patron of the Pakistan Recovery Fund, Prince Charles,
established the idea for the charity rugby match, which has been organised by
kram Butt, Founder of the British Asian Rugby Association (BARA). kram is
also an ambassador for Prince Charles's Mosaic organisation, creating
opportunities for young people in deprived communities.

The team of 20 student volunteers, who are all on the BA (Hons) Sports
Business Management degree course at Leeds Metropolitan, will be involved
in a range of jobs including: giving public tours of Twickenham Stadium,
welcoming attendees, refereeing, photography, video interviews with the
celebrities, working with the media, managing the changing rooms and ball-
boys and running the event curtain-raisers, consisting of two north vs south
schools tournaments, featuring Leeds Grammar School's Under 15s team and
Parkinson Primary School's Under 11s team.

The match will see the Commons and Lords rugby team play a team of rugby
legends, including kram, and captained by former Wales and British and rish
Lions international rugby union player and now Dean of Leeds Metropolitan
University's Carnegie Faculty, Gareth Davies, in order to raise funds to
support the devastation in Pakistan caused by the 2010 floods which
impacted on the lives of over 20 million people and which have cost the
country over 25billion.

kram Butt, who received an honorary degree from Leeds Metropolitan in the
summer, commented: "The students will have a wonderful experience
volunteering at the Rugby Legends vs Commons and Lords match. They will
have the opportunity to meet sporting legends and be at Twickenham, the
largest rugby union stadium in the UK.

Nick Halafihi, the students' Course Leader and professional rugby league
player, added: "Volunteering is an essential part of any student's CV and our
course team work hard to locate exciting and innovative opportunities for our
students. This opportunity will allow students to experience what it is like to
run a very high profile event and they will be rotating around a number of
activities throughout the day.

Members of the public will also be invited to: purchase a 'dream ticket',
allowing them to meet the players; have a go at being a ball-boy; play on the
rugby legends team during the game for 20 minutes and attend a black tie
dinner in the evening, attended by Prince Charles.

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For further details please contact Carrie Braithwaite in the News and Media
team at Leeds Met on 0113 812 3022 or emailc.braithwaite@leedsmet.ac.uk

Notes for editors:

O Leeds Metropolitan University has 30,000 students and 3, 000 staff.
O The University has achieved its best ever Research Assessment
Exercise results. Sports-Related Studies is in the top 6 institutions in
the country with research rated at the highest levels of 4* and 3*.
O Leeds Met has been rated the top university in the UK for its language
support, accommodation quality and learning spaces in the 2010
Autumn Wave of the nternational Student Barometer and sixth in the
world for the quality of its lectures.
O The University's award-winning learning environments include
Broadcasting Place, voted the best tall building in the world in 2010 by
the Chicago-based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
(CTBUH) and also winner of the 2010 Leeds Architecture Awards New
Building category, the iconic Rose Bowl building, awarded Best
Commercial Property Development in the 2009 Yorkshire Property
Awards and the pioneering Carnegie Village student accommodation.
O Leeds Metropolitan is one of only a handful of UK universities to have
been awarded the Carbon Trust Standard.