Owner Mohammed Sabir MBE

Career : Mohammed Sabir opened his first restaurant in Shipley in 1977 with the aim of presenting authentic Kashmiri cuisine of the highest order to the people of Shipley and Bradford. Aagrah has since expanded and created a niche amongst those appreciative of good authentic Asian food served in opulent surroundings. This family run restaurant group has prospered and grown over the last 30 years in response to the local and regional community acknowledging the standards set by Aagrah. The special qualities created in Shipley have since been recreated successfully with branches of the Aagrah restaurant now throughout the Yorkshire region. Now Chairman of the Group run by his brother Mohammed Aslam. Received MBE in New Year Honours 2006 from her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, for his outstanding charity work raising money since the Pakistan Earthquake. Though his passion for charity came long before the disaster in his homeland. Ever since his beloved handicapped son passed away 18 years ago, Sabir has continuously held yearly charity events raising money for the school his son attended, as well as raising money for schools and hospitals in both the UK and overseas. The 65-year-old chairman of Shipley-based Aagrah restaurant, who was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award in Bradford's Community Awards, dedicated himself to organising fundraising dinners and events raising more than £1 million since he set up Jannat Welfare International Trust to help needy people in Bradford and Pakistan after he lost his nine-year-old disabled son, Sajid, to pneumonia in 1983.