New Year honours for benevolent Brits in Spain – Costa News Spain

Charlie Wilson, treasurer of the British Benevolent Fund, has actually been granted an MBE in the 2025 New Year’s Honours Checklist for solutions to prone British nationals in Spain.

The British Benevolent Fund is the earliest British charity in Spain, at over 100 years of ages, and gives monetary assistance to prone Brits in Spain that have nothing else choice.

The organisation has a close connection with the consular network along with various other teams around Spain. Grief, splitting up, health problem, and Brexit are however a couple of factors that can have had a destructive monetary effect on some British locals and often holidaymakers while in Spain.

Charlie Wilson aided countless Brits in deep financial difficulty

Charlie Wilson has actually been accountable for assisting countless Brits throughout Spain by giving temporary financial backing any place most required, assisting those in financial straits, and despite having repatriation when required.

Chairman of the BBF, Olaf Clayton, stated that the ‘payment that Charlie has actually transformed greater than a years to assist others is a credit scores to the BBF and an instance of civil service of the highest possible order.’

Elizabeth Keegan, the supervisor of the Lloret Visitor Board, has actually additionally been granted this year, this time around with a BEM in the New Year Honours Checklist for solutions to British nationals in Girona.

For over 15 years, Elizabeth Keegan has actually regularly exceeded and past to sustain the British citizen area, consisting of checking out British visitors in the community of Lloret de Mar and making an actual distinction to the lives of prone locals.

‘ From sustaining senior British locals throughout the pandemic to making certain that UK nationals in Lloret de Mar comprehended the effects of the UK’s leave from the European Union, Elizabeth has actually selflessly devoted her time to cultivating a feeling of belonging within the regional British area.’ stated British Ambassador to Spain, Sir Alex Ellis. ‘Her charitable job remains to make a distinction in the lives of those she touches and is really worthwhile of this acknowledgment.’