Lint Group’s Managing Director Rizwan Patel has been awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queens New Year 2022 Honours list for services to the disadvantaged communities in the UK and Abroad.
Since the inception of Lint Group’s earliest company Letting International in 1992, Rizwan has instilled and cultivated a culture of compassion within his teams. This has led to Lint Group supporting many charitable causes, from working in Africa to Asia and across the UK raising money and awareness for worthy causes. The list is endless, recently the Lint Group team successfully ran a campaign to support Abdullah Aid’s Indonesia Tsunami Appeal, where 300 families were sent provisions and new homes were also built for a community which we all saw losing everything.
His work in the Gambia with supporting a whole community with the infrastructure of new religious buildings and food programmes is an ongoing display of what he feels is important, creating sustainable communities in the future.
Rizwan has also been instrumental in Indus Delta Capital, a UK company that is working in partnership with the government of Sindh, Pakistan where 350,000 hectares of trees are being restored, managed, and planted in what is the largest mangrove restoration project in the world. The project also supports the vulnerable communities within the area.
He is an inherent part of the local community, supporting local charities which include homelessness and the vulnerable. He has been passionate about the diversity in sport and is supporting local Cricket Clubs, Bowling Clubs, West Ham Football Club and FC Leytonstone which is a grassroots Girls Football Club.
Rizwan Patel OBE said, “I am honoured and humbled for the recognition. I have enjoyed working with the communities, charities, organisations over the years here and abroad. If we have been blessed, then it is a duty that we give something back, being a Muslim one knows that charity is an integral part of our lives. It has always been a pleasure, and I have loved supporting people where needed. There are big plans for the future and I look forward to carrying on doing more ”
