The King’s Birthday Honours List has been revealed with Alan Bates, the campaigner who highlighted the Post Office scandal given a knighthood
The artist Tracey Emin and former Prime Minister Gordon Brown are also honoured while former footballer Ally McCoist is awarded a OBE for services to football and broadcasting and Graeme Souness is awarded a CBE for services to football and charity,
The actress Imelda Staunton has been made a Dame and there were knighthoods for historian Niall Ferguson and climate scientist Jim Skea
Over 97 people from the North West have received honours in HM The King’s Birthday Honours List 2024
Among people honoured in the region Pauline Binns-Tulloch has been awarded an MBE for services to the community in Greater Manchester.
She runs a hair salon within a community complex called Limelight. This is an award winning community complex that serves as a health and wellbeing hub for the elderly and vulnerable. Her salon not only provides a subsidised, essential service to the community but also a setting where the elderly can gather for refreshments and conversation. Over the years, she has worked for the NHS and trained as an Auxiliary Nurse.
She has also worked closely with the council through their Fostering and Supported Living scheme, and she herself has been fostering since 2014 and has now extended her family of three to a family of five.
Oldham-born actress Shobna Gulati, known for her role in Coronation Street, has been awarded a Member of the Order of the British Empire
The 57-year-old actress, who played Sunita Alahan in the soap from 2001 to 2013, will receive the honour for services to the cultural industries.
59 year old Jacqui Belfield-Smith from Stockport also gets an MBE.She is Head of Youth Justice and Targeted Youth Services, Stockport Council
and Chair, Association of Youth Offending Team Managers. For services to Youth Justice.
58 year old Debbie Brown also from Stockport gets the MBE.She has led cross council transformation programmes and redesigned services and systems to make improvements for residents, saving in excess of £10m.
Her leadership of the Salford Digital Inclusion movement involved working with various partners, helping people to use and engage with digital to improve their lives.
She played an active role in Greater Manchester for many years and supported the Mayor’s development and implementation of a ‘Continuity of Service Protocol’ across 38 public sector employers to protect employment rights and ensuring stability for the health and care workforce and was a Director of The Landing Company and led work with the Home of Skills and Technology at Media City to connect residents with the growing digital sector.
She led the 2016+ Poverty Truth Commission, which has made a positive difference to the lives of people in the city, reducing poverty and listening to those who historically thought they would not be heard, the methodology for which was praised by the Local Government Association as national best practice.
39 year old Isaac Ginsbury from Prestwich also gets an MBE.He has worked with and fostered strong connections with the large and growing
Jewish population in Greater Manchester, particularly the deprived and isolated
Orthodox communities in Greater Manchester .
79 year old Charles John Nevin from Cheadle Hulme gets the MBE
He has devoted almost 40 years governing schools in the North West and Midlands area.
42 year old Sarah Louise Van der Merwe from Bury also gets the MBE For services to Further Education and Skills
Sally MacDonald, Director of the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester has been awarded an OBE for services to the arts and heritage.
Sally, who grew up in Withington, Manchester, has led the museum for the last ten years, securing over £40m to date to spearhead the repair and regeneration of its globally significant site for everyone who lives in and visits the city.
Sally says “it’s a great recognition of the wonderful work of everyone at the museum and all our partners across the city and beyond. We are all passionate about the role that museums and heritage can play in inspiring the next generation of innovators and creating opportunities for young people to realise the future ideas that will change the world”.
