# New Year honours for voluntary sector people

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2006/12/30/new-year-honours-voluntary-sector-people/
- Published: 2006-12-30T09:28:29+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The Guardian has published a handy list of [local government, health, voluntary, and social care professionals who have been awarded honours](http://society.guardian.co.uk/voluntary/story/0,,1979992,00.html)
by the Queen at the end of 2006. Only one has a direct fundraising role: Robert 
Russell Thompson, director of fundraising at the Royal British Legion has been awarded
an OBE for services to ex-servicemen and women.

Others of course have been recognised for activities that include fundraising. For
example, [Janet Allen](http://www.meltonmowbraytoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=752&ArticleID=1952778),
organiser of the Scalford Friday Club, has helped raise about £125,000 for various
charities including £60,000 for Cancer Research UK. Professor Malcolm Green, founder
of the [British Lung Foundation](http://www.lunguk.org), has been knighted: his 
fundraising support for the charity includes decorating his sailing boat with the
British Lung Foundation red balloon logo and organising a myriad of cycling, running
and swimming events, many of which he has taken part in himself.

CAF’s former Executive Director, Donor Services, [Jenny Byers, has been awarded an OBE](http://www.cafonline.org/Default.aspx?page=12421)
for services to charity.

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