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Individual Honours

Learn about the Honours system, where individuals from various backgrounds are recognized for their contributions to society, community, and organizations. Find out how anyone can make a nomination and how to promote diversity in Honours.

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Individual Honours

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  1. Individual Honours A variety of people receive Honours for many different reasons such as impacting on society, their community or their organisation. Two Honours lists per year: Birthday and New Year Approximately 1,200 people are recognised in each list Announced in a blaze of publicity; headline news across the world. ANYONE CAN BE CONSIDERED AND ANYONE CAN MAKE A NOMINATION FOR AN HONOUR HONOURS ARE NOT JUST FOR CELEBRITIES!

  2. The Prime Minister sets the strategic direction for each honours list • The Prime Minister would like to honour those who: • Create jobs and economic activity across the country; • Support a global, outward-looking Britain; • Support children and young people of all backgrounds to achieve their potential; • Aid social mobility, enhancing life opportunities and removing barriers to success; • Give their time to improve their local community; • Work to tackle discrimination in all its forms

  3. Who can be considered for an honour ? Anyone can be considered for an honour and anyone can make a nomination for an honour: We are looking for people who have made a significant contribution, gone above and beyond their recognised role, made a positive impact and delivered significant outcomes Youngest person to receive an honour – 13 year old school boy jonjo Heuerman – services to cancer research Oldest person to receive an honour - Fauja Singh 103 years old –services to sport and charity

  4. People get honours for achievements for: • Making a difference to their community or field of work • Enhancing Britain’s reputation • Long-term voluntary service • Innovation and entrepreneurship • Changing things, with an emphasis on achievement • Improving life for people less able to help themselves • Displaying moral courage

  5. Honours • A Knight or Dame candidate will have had a national impact • Someone receiving a CBE will have had a national impact, but to a lesser extent than someone who has been nominated for a Knighthood or Damehood • The recipient of an OBE will have had a regional impact • MBE recipients will be making an impact on a County level • People who are awarded a BEM (British Empire Medal) will have had an impact on their local community

  6. The New Year Honours List 2019: • 1,148 people received an award: • 1018 at BEM, MBE and OBE level: 358 at BEM; 422 at MBE; 238 x OBE • 70% have undertaken outstanding work in their communities • 544 women; 47% of the total • 12% from a BAME background • 4% consider themselves to have a disability (under the Equality Act 2010) • 5% identify as being LGBT • West Midlands • 3 at CBE • 4 at OBE • 17 at MBE • 8 at BEM

  7. What can you do ? • We can’t deliver a diverse Honours list without your help ! • Promote honours throughout the course of your activities • Identify people worthy of a honour and make or support a nomination • REMEMBER ! • ANYONE CAN BE CONSIDERED AND ANYONE CAN MAKE A NOMINATION FOR AN HONOUR

  8. Points to note about a nomination • Nominations often fail if the work happened too long ago. Look for examples of work and achievement form the last five years • Your candidate must still be doing what they have been nominated for six months before the Honours list is announced • At least 2 letters of support • The public nomination system is a lengthy process with at least an 18 month turn around time

  9. Make a nomination • www.gov.uk.honours • How to draft a nomination • Honours nomination form • Make a nomination by post or e-mail • *CONFIDENTIALITY : YOU CAN TALK TO ANYONE YOU WANT ABOUT MAKING THE NOMINATION EXCEPT FOR THE PERSON YOU ARE NOMINATING, JUST MAKE SURE THAT YOUR CONVERSATIONS ARE IN CONFIDENCE

  10. WE ARE HERE TO HELP CONTACT US: Dale Guest West Midlands Honours Coordinator dale@wmlieutenancy.org 0121 222 5039

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