# New Year's Honours for fundraisers?

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2007/12/31/new-year039s-honours-fundraisers/
- Published: 2007-12-31T09:43:11+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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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