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New Year’s Honours 2017 for donors and charity staff
Howard Lake | 31 December 2017 | News
In total 1,123 people have received an award in the 2017 Queen’s New Year’s Honours List.
Of these, 981 candidates have been selected at BEM, MBE and OBE level: 318 at BEM, 452 at MBE and 211 at OBE.
70% of the recipients are people who have undertaken outstanding work in their communities either in a voluntary or paid capacity 551 women are recognised in the List, representing 49% of the total
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9.2% of the successful candidates come from a BAME background
5% of the successful candidates consider themselves to have a disability (under the Equality Act 2010)
More on honours for good work
- Free support to boost recognition of LGBTQ activists (18 June 2021)
- OBE for Mark Astarita, British Red Cross Director of Fundraising (13 June 2015)
- Deadline extended for Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Volunteering Awards 2012 (7 September 2012)
- How to nominate someone for a MBE honour? (31 August 2017)
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.