Saint Michael’s Chief Executive awarded OBE in New Year’s Honours

Saint Michael’s Chief Executive Tony Collins has been awarded an OBE in the King’s New Year’s Honours List in recognition of his services to the community.

Tony, who is also the Chief Executive of specialist bereavement and emotional wellbeing service Just ‘B’ and Hambleton and Richmondshire-based Herriot Hospice Homecare, has been a leader in the hospice community in Yorkshire and the North East for 27 years, and also sits on the board of national charity Hospice UK.

Tony has been awarded the honour in recognition of his hospice care and emotional wellbeing work, as well as community work as a minister with the Church of England. This includes increasing hospice care in the place people call home, increasing accessibility to hospice care for those in rural areas, and introducing Yorkshire’s first specialised community bereavement service – Just ‘B’ – in 2009.

Saint Michael’s provides care and support for families living with terminal illness and bereavement across the Harrogate district. It does this from its hospice building, as well as in the community. Alongside Just ‘B’ and Herriot Hospice Homecare, it makes up registered charity North Yorkshire Hospice Care.

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