OBE for Rosaleen Moriarty-Simmonds

I am thrilled to be able to tell you that I have been honoured in the ‘Queen’s New Year Honours’ list with an OBE for ‘Services to the Equality and Rights of Disabled People’. I am dedicating the award to my Mum and to all those who have worked so hard to achieve equality for disabled people. The fight for equality goes on, and hopefully 2015 will see the work that so many of us do, recognised in a way that really puts disabled people at the forefront of equality issues.16