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New Year's Honours for fundraisers?
Howard Lake | 31 December 2007 | Blogs
Looks like Gordon Brown has been trying to increase the proportion of awards going to voluntary sector workers in this year’s Queen’s New Year’s Honours List.
BBC News has featured several:
Maureen Ainsley receives MBE for fundraising for the Battle Museum of Local History in East Sussex
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/7163482.stm
Lilian Mina, who helped raise £2.7m in her role as chairman of the Royal Hall Restoration Trust, has been appointed MBE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/7163180.stm
Muriel Poisson, of St John, has been appointed MBE for charitable services in Jersey
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/jersey/7163642.stm
John Butterworth, editor of the Shrewsbury and North Shropshire Chronicles, who has helped raise £4m for charity, has been appointed MBE for services to journalism and charity.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/7163499.stm
Anyone care to blow their trumpet about their award in this year’s List for fundraising? Or perhaps one of your fundraising colleagues, or one of your charity’s volunteer fundraisers?
Add them using the comment box below.
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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.