SEMSA Awards 2025
SEMSA Awards – Accepting Nominations Now!
Award Categories are:
Community Sports Person
Nominee criteria: Has proven to be a source of inspiration to BAME communities. Has used the power of sport to engage and impact on others. Has raised awareness of their sport to inspire others.
Community Coach
Nominee criteria: Achieved excellence in coaching. Has given of their time to inspire others into coaching. Is a role model for BAME communities.
Community Project
Nominee criteria: Awarded to an organisation that has demonstrated significant impact to engage and increase levels of participation amongst BAME communities.
Community Young Sports Person
Nominee criteria: Is aged 18 years or under. Has shown a level of dedication and passion excelling great heights. Is an inspiration and role model for BAME communities.
Volunteer of the Year
Nominee criteria: Awarded to an individual who has given up their time to engage BAME communities into sport and physical activity. Has demonstrated considerable knowledge, passion and patience to both inspire and build confidence in others to realise the benefits of sport within wider society.
Unsung Hero of the Year
Awarded to an individual for their outstanding contribution to actively engage BAME communities. In doing so has worked tirelessly on a voluntary basis, engaging both BAME communities as well as sports providers to enact positive measures to increase and widen sport to all communities.
Female Entrepreneur of the year
Awarded to an individual for their outstanding contribution to actively engage BAME communities.
Male Entrepreneur of the year
Awarded to an individual for their outstanding contribution to actively engage BAME communities.
Service to Community
Awarded to an individual for their outstanding service to the community with emphasis on the BAME communities.
Disability Achievement Award
Awarded to an individual or organisation who have actively engaged the sector to dismantle barriers and recognise the specific needs of disabled people to participate and excel in sport and physical activity.
To nominate…
please email rajanialok@yahoo.co.uk with your nomination..
Cut off date for nominations is 17th February 2025.
Please mention the following:
Nominated Award Category
Your name and email address
Name of person/organisation you are nominating
The reason for the nomination.
Data Protection:
Submissions sent may be used by SEMSA for the purposes of marketing/PR.
Your name and address will be used by SEMSA to notify you of future activities. If you do not wish your details to be used for this purpose, please mention this in your response.
Mixed Doubles Badminton Tournament
February 2025
<Click Here to apply via Google Form>
Sports Council for Glasgow Awards 2024
(Club Sport Glasgow)
22nd November 2024 – Glasgow City Chambers.
SEMSA proudly announces that the ClubSport Glasgow Lifetime Achievement Award 2024 was presented to our very own President, Dilawer Singh MBE.
SEMSA can also proudly announce that they were awarded the Impact Award 2024 by ClubSport Glasgow.
Badminton Scotland Awards 2024
SEMSA representatives attended the Badminton Scotland Awards (November 2024) at the Emirates Arena Glasgow.
Men’s Badminton Tournament 2024
The tournament was a great success! Please see badminton webpage for more information and photos.
SEMSA September Sports Day 2024
The SEMSA September Sports Day took place in Kelvingrove Park on the 21st of September. A fun time was had by all. Please click on the camera link below to see more photos of the event.
Summer Sports Day 2024
SEMSA in conjunction with Central Gurdwara Singh Sabha and Punjabi Academy Glasgow held the annual sports day at Kelvin Hall on 15th June 2024.
The event was very well attended and everyone had a great time! Many thanks to all the volunteers, parents and children who came along to make the event so enjoyable.
Please click on the link below to see images from the event….
Women’s Community Badminton Doubles Tournament 2024
2nd June 2024
SEMSA organised the 7th Annual Women-only Doubles Badminton Tournament on 2nd June 2024 at Sir Craig Reedie Badminton Centre (SCRBC) in Glasgow. The tournament was the brain-child of SEMSA trustees, Rajani Tyagi. She felt the need to give the club players motivation to continue with regular club sessions. This ethnically diverse women-only tournament was the first of its king Scotland. The idea helps to bring many women from the BME community to play and participate in the tournament as it was organised with women’s cultural needs in mind. This is only possible with SEMSA’s forward-thinking mindset. This could only be achieved with the board members and community understanding each others needs.
The tournament has grown from 2017 to the present day with ever-increasing numbers of players. This is the second time it has been organised in association with Badminton Scotland.
We had ladies participating from all over Scotland. Women came from Isle of Skye, Dundee, Ayrshire and of course, Glasgow, where four clubs were represented. The participant numbers have doubled from last year which was a delightful achievement for the SEMSA board members.
SEMSA were honoured to have VIP, Rachel Sugden attend. She is the 2024 Women’s Singles National Champion. Rachel presented medals to the winners as well as provided a boost to the players.
SEMSA Board Members are delighted to see the progress of this particular event in their portfolio, and strive to continual improvement in future years.
Photographs from the tournament are a testament to the success of this event and can be viewed by clicking on the link below…
Photo credits: Jas Jassal, Amitabh Bhattacharjee, Kamaljit Minhas, Shandana Sarmad
Please click on the camera logo to see more photos from the event.
SEMSA Hill Walking
To promote healthy life style SEMSA organises many activities, hill walking is one of those. Anyone interested to join on Sundays, please contact us on info@semsascotland.com for further details. For the most up to date information about recent outings, please click on the SEMSA Hillwalking page – <—- link — >
Achievement Award 2024
SEMSA International Womens Day event wins the achievement of the month award from ClubSport Glasgow at Decathlon at Braehead on Thursday 18th April.
International Women’s Day 2024
Many thanks to everyone who helped make SEMSA’s International Women’s Day such a success.
Please click on the camera logo to see photos from the event.
Scottish Ethnic Minority Sports Association
The Scottish Ethnic Minority Sports Association (SEMSA) was established in 1990 due to the lack of provisions available to the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities of Glasgow. Since its inception SEMSA has created and provided culturally sensitive sporting opportunities to the (BME) community.
Now SEMSA has taken cognisance of the changing community dynamics and the migration of new communities to the city. As a result of both the demographic change as well as the financial pressure in the current economic climate, SEMSA has evoked a change to a more strategic and inclusive approach.
This inclusiveness allows Scotland’s new and indigenous communities to work towards creating an equal playing field for all communities at both an operational and strategic level. SEMSA recognises the need to challenge and tackle inequality, racism and discrimination in the field of sport as a core element of its work. SEMSA is one of the leading national sports organisation run by, and for BME communities in Glasgow to organise and deliver sporting activities of interest.
The organisation has established a range of programmes and initiatives such as the SASA Football Programme, coaching/capacity building programmes, badminton programmes and national football and badminton competitions. Some of the key areas SEMSA has not only been involved in but has also initiated include : UK Asian Football Championships (UKAC), Glasgow wide BME sports events, annual Summer Academies, development of a BME equalities post in Glasgow City Council, links to new communities and training programme development initiatives.
The Scottish Ethnic Minority Sports Association is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO), registered in Scotland, number SC046642 and regulated by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR).
