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465:, he participated in a desert bike ride in the Middle East. Chaudry founded and supports the Al Amir Foundation School in his home village in Pakistan – a middle school for around 200 children. Chaudry provided land for the school and financed its start-up. Chaudry is an Ambassador for The Princes' Trust and on the speaking Bureau for Mosaic (one of
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In 2015, Chaudry was part of a team which rowed 500 nautical miles from Tower Bridge in London to the Eiffel Tower in Paris to raise money for the Donna Louise hospice. Chaudry is also founder of the M Club
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Waterworld and in 2018 announced plans for four new rides as well as vast expansion of the site, housing an 18,000sqft golf facility as well as the relocated M Club premium gym. An outdoor ‘boot camp’ area with jogging and running tracks will also be
414:, Stoke-on-Trent, would close; leaving 2,500 club members looking for an alternative and causing the loss of over 40 local jobs. As a member of Esporta for 12 years, Chaudry put in a successful takeover bid for his new venture – M Club Spa and Fitness. He reopened the club within two months.
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Chaudry's natural sporting talents were put to the test at university, where he won a silver medal in weightlifting at the 1982 Student
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In 2018, he acquired a majority stake in Pulse Group, the leisure equipment and provision giant partnering more than 10,000 leisure facilities in 32 countries across 5 continents. He also appeared in the
364:) and coped with negative attention by developing a combination of both fighting and communication skills. When his father began a mini-supermarket business, the family moved to a bigger home in
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created, while the site will be linked to the Trent and Mersey Canal, creating new pedestrian access. The scheme will create 60 jobs and bring an extra 150,000 visitors to the attraction.
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