Birthday Honours 2022
Rebecca Goodrich (rebecca Friel) MBE
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
Chief Executive Officer
“For services to Education and to the community in Manchester.”
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Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
For services to Education and to the community in Manchester.
View London Gazette notice ↗London Gazette notice
Order of the British Empire
Civil Division
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
02 June 2022
THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased, on the occasion of the Celebration of Her Majesty’s Birthday, to give orders for the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire:
M.B.E.
To be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order:
Rebecca GOODRICH (Rebecca Friel)
Chief Executive Officer, Odd Arts
For services to Education and to the community in Manchester.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 63714 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
Location
Manchester, Greater Manchester
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Member of the Order of the British Empire
Birthday Honours 2022- Role at the time
- Chief Executive Officer
- Region
- Manchester, Greater Manchester
“For services to Education and to the community in Manchester.”
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“For services to Education and to the community in Manchester.”
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How common is this award?
The Member of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 577 times in the Birthday Honours List 2022 — about 39% of the list.
In their area
220 Member of the Order of the British Empire recipients are from Greater Manchester.
What organisation were they with?
Chief Executive Officer.
How widely is this recognised?
5,862 people have been recognised for Education.
Counts reflect the 2000–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Member of the Order of the British Empire in the Birthday Honours 2022
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Ameet Jogia
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Ameeta Virk
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Andrew Baird
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“For services to Further Education.”
Andrew Dunn
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Andrew Howell
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Cardiff, South Glamorgan
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Banchory, Kincardineshire
“For services to Skiing.”
Andrew Kaye
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London, Greater London
“For services to Global Resilience and Crisis Management.”
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Others recognised for Education
Across the 2000–2026 honours lists in our records, 5,862 people have been recognised for Education. See the full list →
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Stephen Thurston Munby
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Shelagh Jane Legrave
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Chichester, West Sussex
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Rachael Ross
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Hinton Daubnay, Hampshire
“For services to Education, to Policy and to People with Down Syndrome.”
Debra Gray
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Dronfield, Derbyshire
“For services to Further Education.”
William Smith
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Witney, Oxfordshire
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Dawn Tinley
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Keri Scott
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Glenda Mctaggart
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Catherine Grove
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“For services to Education and Young People in The Gambia.”
Julia Downey
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Barbara Connell
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Diane Willson
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Bognor Regis, West Sussex
“For services to the Education Community in Bognor Regis, West Sussex.”
Caroline Tyerman
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Durham, County Durham
“For services to Education.”
Patricia Wells
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London, Greater London
“For services to Early Years in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.”
Alison Turner
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London, Greater London
“For services to the Learning Disabled and Neurodiverse Community.”
Louise Sutherland
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Leatherhead, Surrey
“For services to Early Years.”
Peter Scobie
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Newtownards, County Down
“For services to Higher Education.”
Audrey Moore
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Limavady, County Londonderry
“For voluntary services to Special Education.”
Fiona Mccullough
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Tamworth, Staffordshire
“For services to Education and Outreach.”
Rita Lewis (helen Hopkins)
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Carmarthen, Dyfed
“For services to Music and Music Education.”
Iraklis Kolokotronis
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
London, Greater London
“For services to the Early Years.”
Fiona Knight
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Corwen, Clwyd
“For services to People with Learning Disabilities and to Autistic People.”
Eleanor Keeley
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
London, Greater London
“For services to Education.”
Source & provenance
Where this record comes from
Member of the Order of the British Empire · 2022
London Gazette (official record), issue 63714, notice 4084717. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (Birthday Honours List 2022).
Published 1 June 2022.
Location (Manchester, Greater Manchester) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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