Councillor "immensely proud" of MBE (From Your Local Guardian)

Mitcham councillor "immensely proud" of MBE

10:00am Sunday 8th January 2012 in News

A councillor is "immensely proud" after learning she is to be made an MBE.

Councillor Edith Macauley JP was recognised for services to the community in the Queen's New Years Honours list.

She works in the trade union movement and is Merton Council's cabinet member for community safety and engagement.

She has represented Mitcham's Lavender Fields ward for Labour since 1998, and was elected mayor of the borough in 2002/03 - when she finished runner up in a nationwide mayor of the year competition .

She said: "I feel immensely proud to be honoured in this way."

Coun Macauley works with organisations in the voluntary sector that promote community integration. She is also a magistrate, and has worked with the charity Operation Black Vote and projects that give young people a better understanding of the justice system.

She said the single achievement she is most proud of in her work is raising the profile of the borough's ethnic communities.