Sector figures shine in 2012 New Year's Honours 1

Governance | Tania Mason | 3 Jan 2012

Community Foundation Network CEO Stephen Hammersley, Prince’s Trust chief executive Martina Milburn and Rod Aldridge, chair of v, were among a string of voluntary sector figures to be recognised in this year’s New Year’s Honours List.

Aldridge, the former Capita chief executive who is chair of volunteering charity v and also chairs his own eponymous foundation, was rewarded with a knighthood for services to young people.

Hammersley (pictured) and Milburn both received CBEs, as did Fiona Dawe, the former chief executive of YouthNet, who was already an OBE, and James Holloway, director of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

CBEs also went to Dr Gillian Greer, former director general of the International Planned Parenthood Federation; James Lupton, former chair of Dulwich Picture Gallery; Nigel Mansell OBE, president of UK Youth; and Dr Frederick Mulder, the founding chair of the Funding Network who stepped down at the end of last year.

OBEs

Dozens of people received OBEs for various services to charitable causes. Among them were Janet Digby-Baker, CEO of the Time for Children Fostering Agency; Stephen Bell, chief executive of homelessness charity Cyrenians; Richard Brunwin, former CEO of the Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation; Margaret Clarke, chair of the September 11 UK Families Support Group; Josephine Connell, vice-president of Age UK; Geoffrey Davison, president of care charity Break, and Anita Green, vice chair of NSPCC in Scotland.

Further OBEs went to Christopher Hall, chairman of World Horse Welfare; Felicity Hilder, founder of the Lymphoma Association; Elizabeth Howell, CEO of the Compaid Trust; Sandra Kerr, national director of Race for Opportunity at Business in the Community; Susan Mills, international relief and development worker at Tearfund; Eileen Monks, director of the Isle of Wight Youth Trust; Rob Parsons, founder and lately executive chairman of Care for the Family; Christopher Pemberton, director of national collections at English Heritage; Reverend William Shaw, director of Northern Ireland reconciliation group the 174 Trust; and Gregory Walker, chief executive of Merseyside training and recycling charity Create.

MBEs

Included in the list of new MBEs were Kate Adams, co-founder of Project Art Works; Maureen Adams, founder of the Regional HIV/Aids service in Peterborough; Anant Barodekar, founder of Club 25 for Young People; James Bond, lately chair of the Fostering Network; Charles Bracken, chairman of Sane; Hilary Cadman, former CEO of Ipswich Women’s Aid; James Davis, good childhood adviser at the Children’s Society; Anthony Miller, director of the Whitechapel Mission; Christine Mills, founder of the Hope for Tomorrow Charity; Margaret Mills, project worker, Children 1st; Hilary Needham, founder and manager, Special Needs and Parents charity (SNAP); Eilish O’Doherty, manager at Age Concern Derry; Linda Phillips, founder and director of Roots and Shoots Charity in Lambeth; Susan Sheward, founder and chair of the Orang-utan Appeal UK; Debora Singer, policy and research manager, Asylum Aid; Madeleine Starr, head of innovation at Carers UK; and David Watson, founder of Heart Research UK.

Fundraisers and philanthropists

A handful of fundraisers made the honours list too. Tamara Flanagan, director of European and statutory funding at CSV, was made OBE, while Kirsty Ann Ashton, fundraiser for When You Wish Upon a Star Charity in Manchester; Leslie Moss, fundraiser for Cancer Research UK, and Eileen Jayne-Wood, fundraiser for the Rowans Hospice, were made MBEs. Graham Douglas Underdown was also given an MBE for services to charitable fundraising.

Several philanthropists were also honoured with CBEs for their services to charity, including Professor Naim Dangoor, Edwin Davies and Gerald Ronson. Philanthropist Paul Ruddock was knighted for services to the arts.

Jennifer Hutton, deputy director of the Cabinet Office, was awarded a CBE.

Who's Who: Frederick Mulder | Martina Milburn | Stephen Hammersley | Rod Aldridge

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Stephen Lulsley
Independent Commentator and Consultant
3 Jan 2012

At the risk of raining on several people's parades, could I ask why I can only find one name in all of the above honoured who works in the international sector with people at risk and in real need world wide? Once again, it seems that if you don't do it here in the UK, you're not recognised or even acknowledged.

Could somebody also tell us why philanthropists are honoured? Isn't that a case of cash for honours?

Also why is a Cabinet Office mandarin awarded a CBE for just doing her job?

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