Khadija Patel is the founder of KRIMMZ Girls Youth Club and attended The British Citizen Award ceremony alongside some of the group’s volunteers. Her work has empowered hundreds of young women across Bolton - including Rumworth, Great Lever, and Halliwell - through sport and physical activity. (Image: KRIMMZ Girls Youth Club)KRIMMZ Girls Youth Club is a community-led organisation and aims to deliver activities designed to promote ‘social inclusion, physical health, emotional wellbeing, and personal development’. She said she was proud to be ‘creating spaces for girls and women to thrive’. "Being a Muslim woman promoting sport and physical activity, creating spaces for girls and women to thrive, has not always been without challenges.