New Year’s Honours 2012
The following individuals received awards in the New Year’s Honours List for services to sport and recreation:
Knights Bachelor:
- Sir Charles Allen CBE - for services to the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympic Games
- Sir John Armitt CBE, chair of the Olympic Delivery Authority - for services to engineering and construction.
Order of the British Empire
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire:
- Giles Clarke CBE, chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board - for services to cricket
- Fiona Dawe CBE, lately chief executive officer of YouthNet - for services to volunteering
- Nigel Mansell CBE, president of UK Youth - for services to children and young people
- Professor Sarah Springman CBE - for services to triathlon
- Peter Thomas CBE - for services to entrepreneurship, sport and charity in Wales
- Professor Joan White CBE, lately director and dean of the faculty of education, Royal Academy of Dance - for services to dance.
Officers of the Order of the British Empire:
- Dickie Bird OBE - for services to cricket and to charity
- Professor Celia Brackenridge OBE - for services to equality and child protection in sport
- Darren Clarke OBE - for services to golf
- Joyce Cook OBE, chair of Level Playing Field (National Association of Disabled Supporters) - for services to disability sports
- Julia Farron OBE, ballet dancer and teacher - for services to ballet
- Peter Grace OBE, founder of Ascot Park Polo Club - for services to polo
- Stuart Hall OBE - for services to broadcasting and charity
- Charles Lister OBE - for services to Greyhound racing
- Adrian Newey OBE - for services to motorsport
- Dr Frank Newton OBE - for services to sailing
- Ian Reid OBE, chief executive of Scottish Sports Futures - for services to young people in Scotland
- Bev Risman OBE - for services to Rugby League
- Andrew Williamson OBE, chief operating officer of The Football League - for services to football.
Members of the Order of the British Empire:
- Margaret Baker MBE - for services to girl guiding and to the community in Littlehampton, West Sussex
- Barbara Benson-Smith MBE - for services to dance and to charity in Whitby, North Yorkshire
- Dorothy Best MBE - for services to physical education
- Roger Castle MBE - for services to gymnastics
- Anthony Conniford MBE, lately assistant director of the UK Football Policing Unit, Home Office
- Karen Gallagher MBE, artistic director of the Merseyside Dance Initiative - for services to dance
- David Green MBE - for charitable services, particularly to boxing in Cambridgeshire
- Sheila Gurnett MBE - Girl Guide leader and community worker, Buckinghamshire - for services to children and young people
- Professor Leonard Hill MBE - for services to fencing
- Hilary Humphreys MBE - for services to education and sport in North Wales
- Denise Jackson MBE - for services to Scottish gymnastics
- Cecilia Jordan MBE, volunteer for the Special Olympics - for services to disability sport
- Jeffrey Levick MBE - for services to disability cricket in Hampshire
- Pamela Lycett MBE - for services to hockey in Staffordshire
- Mary Maunder MBE - coach at the St Joseph’s Swimming Club - for voluntary service to the community in Cardiff
- William McCallum MBE - for services to sport in Argyll and Bute
- Rory McIlroy MBE, golfer - for services to sport
- Valerie Mellor MBE - for services to swimming in the North West
- Alice Morgan MBE - for services to the Girl Guides in Pembrokeshire
- Rosemary Morrison MBE - for services to disabled sailing
- Stephen Nicholson MBE - for services to St. John's Ambulance in Bedfordshire
- Frank O’Sullivan MBE, founder and coach of the Birmingham City Amateur Boxing Club - for services to amateur boxing
- Christopher Paterson MBE - for services to Scottish rugby
- James Peacock MBE, England Rugby League captain and Leeds Rhinos prop forward - for services to Rugby League
- Roger Penfold MBE - for services to the Amateur Swimming Association south east region and to local government in Berkshire
- Michael Read MBE, president of the Channel Swimming Association - for services to swimming
- Christopher Reed MBE - for services to the Scouts and to the community in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire
- Neil Robinson MBE, national coach of the GB Paralympics table tennis team - for services to disabled sport
- Dennis Slaughter MBE - for services to motocross
- Sarah Stevenson MBE - for services to martial arts
- Rowena Thomas-Breese MBE - for services to disabled swimming and charitable fundraising
- Helen Thomson MBE - for services to the Brownies in Scotland
- Nigel Truscott MBE - for voluntary service to St. John's Ambulance in Jersey
- Kathleen Tyson MBE, guide leader for the 36th Nottingham Guide Group - for services to young people
- Allen Urch MBE - for services to swimming in Nottinghamshire
- Umesh Valjee MBE, cricketer - for services to deaf cricket
- Peter Walwyn MBE - for services to horse racing
- Maureen Watkin MBE - for voluntary services to St. John's Ambulance in the West Midlands
- Mary Watt MBE - for services to Highland dance teaching in Ross-shire
- Thomas Welsh MBE - for services to athletics in Northern Ireland
- Keith White MBE - for services to sport
- Martyn Williams MBE - for services to rugby
- Fred Wooding MBE - for services to athletics in the East of England
- Alan Woodiwiss MBE, founder of Sutton High Football Club - for services to amateur football.
