
A youngster who has lived with most cancers since she was 4 has been recognised within the New Yr Honours Listing for elevating cash for different kids with the illness.
Mikayla Beames, from Wantage, Oxfordshire, has been given a British Empire Medal for her providers to charitable fundraising.
The 18-year-old, who’s at present present process chemotherapy for mind most cancers, arrange the charity Staff Mikayla in 2014, which grants needs for kids being handled at 4 UK hospitals.
One other honours recipient was Paralympic rower Erin Kennedy, who has been appointed an OBE for providers to rowing and to breast most cancers consciousness.
Mikayla, who gained a ORIONEWS Make a Distinction Award in September for her fundraising, mentioned she was initially informed by her mum {that a} “crucial letter” had arrived for her.
She mentioned it had been “extremely arduous” to maintain the key of the award from family and friends.
“Numerous household and mates have mentioned: ‘what are you doing on this date or that date?’ And I’ve mentioned: ‘I am unable to truly say: we’re doing one thing…'”

Mikayla mentioned her mission stays to “create increasingly smiles” for kids with most cancers, which she mentioned is “such a tough journey”.
Mum Natasha mentioned she was extraordinarily pleased with Mikayla.
“It is nonetheless surreal. We’re simply regular individuals attempting to do good in the neighborhood. To get the honour for Mikayla, it is like, ‘that is actually occurring!'”
This Christmas the charity delivered greater than £2,000 price of books and toys to kids’s hospital wards in Oxford, Bristol, Leicester and Nottingham.

Erin Kennedy’s honour comes after the Henley rower gained a gold medal on the Paralympic Video games in 2024.
She was recognized with breast most cancers in Could 2022 and have become an advocate for early detection and analysis.
After successful gold on the 2022 European Championships whereas present process chemotherapy, she underwent a double mastectomy earlier than successful the 2023 European Championships.
Different honours recipients embody:
- Andrew Haines – the chief govt officer of Community Rail, who receives a knighthood for providers to the transport sector and to the economic system
- Prof Alison Mary Etheridge – the professor of likelihood at Oxford College is appointed a dame for providers to the mathematical sciences
- Sarwat Tasneem Ebbett – the behavioural change advisor and founding father of the Thrive Basis is appointed an OBE for providers to religion and to integration
- Dr Paul Christopher Roberts – the archaeologist and keeper of antiquities at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum can also be appointed an OBE for providers to archaeology and to heritage
- Rob MacDougall – Oxfordshire Hearth and Rescue Service’s chief fireplace officer is awarded a King’s Hearth Service Medal