New Year's Honours: The people in Suffolk being recognised by the Queen
A volunteer during COVID, a nurse and a village historian will be honoured
The people receiving honours from the Queen for the new year have been revealed.
One volunteer from Ipswich, who worked to support the National Trust during the COVID-19 pandemic, will be honoured with a MBE.
Tiger de Souza, who is 41, has been instrumental in helping the charity establish its COVID secure guidance for other volunteers, as well as working between bosses and the volunteers themselves.
He also helped coordinate celebrations for Volunteers Week in June, to ensure the event could me marked.
He said: "Volunteers have done such a tremendous amount of work to support the nation this year, it felt so important to me and to others that we acknowledge, recognise and demonstrate we really value the contribution they have made.
"I was incredibly surprised, shocked, honoured and privileged to be nominated and to be recognised in this way.
"There are many thousands of volunteers out there who won't be being recognised but, for me, they are the true heroes of the pandemic."
Jacky Copping, who's 54 and from Beccles in Suffolk is also receiving an MBE.
Ms Copping is being honoured for her services to nursing particularly during Covid-19.
She has worked at the James Paget Hospital in Great Yarmouth since she was 18, progressing through multiple roles to become Deputy Director of Nursing.
Ms Copping is described as putting patients at the centre of all she does and worked on a national level during the pandemic to help with the development of masks.
Also being honoured is 68-year-old Richard Luke Saunders from Manningtree, who is receiving a British Empire Medal.
His work includes supporting numerous disabled people, either born disabled or who experienced life changing injuries, with their physical and mental health.
Mr Saunders has also raised awareness and profile of disability golf and encouraged the younger generation to take up the sport.
He has devoted his spare time running, promoting and obtaining funding for the charity British Amputee & Les Autres Sports Association (BALASA) until it was taken over by England Golf.
Meanwhile, Pearl Brunning, from Eriswell will also receive a BEM for services to the community.
Since 1972, she has been a leading administrator of her local church of St Laurence and St Peter in Eriswell, and first a member of the Parish Council she became Chair in 2003. She was on the Parish Council for 46 years.
Not only that, but she also volunteers as a village historian, keeping a meticulous record of the village’s history over a period of nearly 5 years.