The Queen’s Birthday Honours list featured several representatives from the leisure industry this year, including CBEs for Whitbread chief executive Alan Parker and former Arts Council England chief executive Peter Hewitt.

Other CBEs were awarded to Bill Beaumont of the International Rugby Board; Richard Calvocoressi, director of the Henry Moore Foundation; John Grimshaw, founder of Sustrans; Michael Lynch, chief executive of the Southbank Centre and Duncan Robinson, former director of Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.

OBEs went to Michael Balfour, co-chair of Fitness First; Raymond Kiddell, vice-president of the FA and founder of Football in the Community; Frederick Morgan, former chair of the England and Wales Cricket Board; Margaret Peggie, chair of the British Sports Trust and vice-president of the Central Council of Physical Recreation; Dorothy Purdew, chair of Champneys and Alan Sommerville, former chief executive of British Gymnastics.

Finally, MBEs were awarded to Phyllis May, president of England Netball; Sandra Dawe, director of strategy and communications at VisitBritain and Allegra McEvedy, the chef, restaurateur and cookery writer.