{"id":77639,"date":"2016-12-30T22:30:01","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T22:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=1611299f9b15e1c7b35d4b34af323a29"},"modified":"2016-12-30T22:30:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T22:30:01","slug":"press-release-communities-secretary-congratulates-new-years-honours-2017-recipients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=77639","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Communities Secretary congratulates New Year&#8217;s Honours 2017 recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Communities Secretary Sajid Javid offered his congratulations to people who have been awarded a New Year\u2019s Honour for their work in local government, charities and communities.<\/p>\n<p>Communities Secretary Sajid Javid said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s fantastic to see some of those working in local government and charities across the country recognised in the New Year\u2019s Honours list for their outstanding contribution to our communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">It\u2019s only right that these dedicated people and their tireless efforts are honoured in this way. I would like to thank them for all that they do.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This year\u2019s New Year\u2019s Honours list includes:<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"cbe\">CBE<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Paul Rowsell, Deputy Director, Democracy, Department for Communities and Local Government<\/li>\n<li>Desmond Biddulph, President and Member of the Buddhist Society<\/li>\n<li>Kim Bromley-Derry, Chief Executive, London Borough of Newham<\/li>\n<li>David Hodge, Leader of Surrey County Council and Vice Chairman, Local Government Association<\/li>\n<li>Roslyn Jones, Mayor, Doncaster Council<\/li>\n<li>Ravindra Govinda, Leader, Wandsworth Borough Council<\/li>\n<li>Jane Martin, Local Government Ombudsman and Chair, Commission for Local Administration in England<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"obe\">OBE<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Tim Haigh, Trustee, Depaul International Development<\/li>\n<li>Iman Abou Atta, Founder SCEME<\/li>\n<li>Chaya Spitz, Chief  Executive, the Interlink Foundation<\/li>\n<li>Jasvir Singh, Founding Chair, City Sikhs<\/li>\n<li>Neil Stock, Leader, Tendring District Council<\/li>\n<li>Robert Sleigh, Leader, Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council<\/li>\n<li>Keith Lorraine, Chief Executive, Isos Housing Group<\/li>\n<li>Tom Miskell, Chair, Accent and Northern Housing Consortium<\/li>\n<li>Ian Munro, Group Chief Executive, New Charter Group<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"mbe\">MBE<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Danny Stone, Secretary, All-Party Parliamentary Group against Anti-Semitism<\/li>\n<li>Peter William Adams, for Service to the Community in Hampton- in- Arden, Solihull<\/li>\n<li>Sonia Bassey-Williams, Integrated Early Support Senior Manager at Cheshire West and Chester Council<\/li>\n<li>Parkash Singh Dhami, President, Telford Gurdwara<\/li>\n<li>Sylvie Johnston, Chief Executive, Stonepillow<\/li>\n<li>Peter David Reeve, Councillor, Huntingdonshire District Council<\/li>\n<li>Evelyn Findlater, Chief Executive Officer, Founder and Project Manager, Good Food Matters<\/li>\n<li>Keith Bott, Partner, Titanic Brewery and Chairma, SIBA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"bem\">BEM<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Jillian Margaret Baker, for voluntary service to the community in Harbury<\/li>\n<li>Eric Carter, Parish Councillor, New Frankley in Birmingham Parish Council<\/li>\n<li>Sophia Crawshaw, Founder, One Good Turn<\/li>\n<li>Kathleen Hankey, for services to the community in Antrobus, Cheshire<\/li>\n<li>Doug Haynes, Clerk, Beeston Parish Council<\/li>\n<li>Davinder Kaur, Chief Executive Officer, SWEDA and Chair, Sandwell Consortium<\/li>\n<li>Vijay Rattan, Chair, Naree Shakti<\/li>\n<li>Joyce Rothschild, for services to charity and the community in Solihull<\/li>\n<li>Gary Smith, Co-founder of Working Against Grooming<\/li>\n<li>Tony Kingsnorth, President, The Federation of Enfield Residents\u2019 &amp; Allied Associations<\/li>\n<li>Sewa Singh Nandhra, for services to the Community in Woolwich<\/li>\n<li>Sheila Margaret Onions, for services to the community in Fillongley<\/li>\n<li>Olive Cope, for services in the community in Enfield<\/li>\n<li>Gordon Lambert Routledge, for services to the community in Longtown<\/li>\n<li>Geoffrey Thorpe, for voluntary service to the community in Harbury<\/li>\n<li>Brian Gascoyne, for services to Community Cohesion in Peterborough<\/li>\n<li>Induju Popat, Hindu Priest, Ashton Under Lyme Hindu Temple<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to those who have been awarded a New Year\u2019s Honour for their work in local government, charities and communities.<\/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\/77639"}],"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=77639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}