New Years Honours 2024: oxford cycling campaigner appointed MBE
New Year’s honors 2024 Oxford cycling campaigner appointed MBE a cycling campaigner has become an MBE in the New Year honors list Dr Allison Hill from Oxford has worked with various cycling Charities and is being recognized for her efforts over the past 18 years as a former public health doctor she wanted
To promote the physical and mental health benefits of cycling as well as its environmental impact she said she was touched and emotional to be honored adding this has been my life’s passion for many years now in 2005 she began working with cycling England an independent body funded by the department for transport
Before joining charity cyclic in 2008 at charity supporting cycling in Oxford she then became chair of bikeability when it formed in 2017 the charity provides the department for transports Flagship National cycle training program for school children in England Dr Hill stood down from bike ability this year but continues her
Charitable work in Oxfordshire where she is campaigning for safer roads in the county this was inspired by the deaths of three women on Oxford roads in 2022 elsewhere in Oxfordshire Andrew day head teacher of the Unicorn School in Abington has been appointed MBE for services to education for 30 years the
School has helped children with neurodiversity including dyslexia dyspraxia speech and language issues as well as autism the school recently bought a second building with the aim to double its pupil numbers from 120 to 240 in the next few years Mr day who joined the school as head in 2015 said I am
Truly honored to receive this award but I share it with all the inspirational highly skilled and dedicated teachers and staff at the Unicorn school who transform the lives of our students daily we know that our students learn differently so we teach differently yet
We do it in a way that no one is made to feel different