New Year Honours 2024
Diana Marjorie Parkes CBE
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Co-Founder and Patron
“Co-Founder and Patron, The Joanna Simpson Foundation. For services to Vulnerable Children Suffering from Domestic Abuse and Domestic Homicide”
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Co-Founder and Patron, The Joanna Simpson Foundation. For services to Vulnerable Children Suffering from Domestic Abuse and Domestic Homicide
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London Gazette notice
Order of the British Empire
Civil Division
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
30 December 2023
THE KING has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire:
C.B.E.
To be Ordinary Commanders of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order
Diana Marjorie PARKES
Co-Founder and Patron, The Joanna Simpson Foundation
For services to Vulnerable Children Suffering from Domestic Abuse and Domestic Homicide.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 64269 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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