{"id":66171,"date":"2016-01-07T17:05:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T17:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=ba6aae6aeb59b96c8c5862110ac1c45a"},"modified":"2016-01-07T17:05:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T17:05:20","slug":"news-story-2016-new-year-honours-for-services-to-women-and-lgbt-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=66171","title":{"rendered":"News story: 2016 New Year Honours for services to Women and LGB&amp;T equality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The 2016 New Year\u2019s Honours list, published on Thursday 31 December 2015, recognises a range of people for their service to women\u2019s and LGB&amp;T equality. These individuals have made amazing contributions over the past year, working to improve equality for women and LGB&amp;T communities.<\/p>\n<p>Alison Pritchard, Government Equalities Office Director, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I am pleased to congratulate everyone who has been recognised in the New Year Honours List. The Government Equalities Office is truly grateful for their efforts and dedication to women and LGB&amp;T people. They have surpassed expectations in helping to fulfil our goal of extending opportunity to all.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The awards are as follows:<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"officers-of-the-order-of-the-british-empire-obe\">Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Amanda Ariss, former Chief Executive of the Equality and Diversity Forum, for services to equality<\/li>\n<li>Paul Roberts, Chief Executive of the charity LGBT Consortium, for services to LGB&amp;T communities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"members-of-the-order-of-the-british-empire-mbe\">Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Barbara Gray, Women\u2019s Institute member in Oxfordshire, for services to women\u2019s voluntary service in Oxfordshire<\/li>\n<li>Tim Sigsworth, Chief Executive, Albert Kennedy Trust, for services to young homeless LGB&amp;T people<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/new-years-honours-list-2016\">Read the full 2016 New Year\u2019s Honours list.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>If you know someone working in women and LGB&amp;T equality services who deserves an honour please contact: mark.reed@geo.gov.uk<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Individuals recognised in the 2016 New Year Honours List for achievements supporting equality for women and LGB&amp;T people<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}