New Year Honour for CEO of GL11

We are delighted that GL11’s CEO, Indigo Redfern, has been awarded an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) by King Charles in the 2023 New Year Honours List.

The Honour recognises GL11’s award winning services to the local community over the last 20 years, and particularly the Community Centre’s UK leading response to Covid, organised by Ms. Redfern, and now used as a national example of best practice.

Indigo Redfern says, “I am delighted to accept this MBE on behalf of all the volunteers, trustees, staff past and present at GL11, and our generous funders, who this Honour is really for.”

“During Covid, hundreds of people helped Cam & Dursley mount a unique community response. 5% of households volunteered, answering over 9,000 phone calls providing support and wellbeing. GL11 supported 12% of all household in our community during lockdown with shopping and prescriptions and directly fed 3% of the local population with over 7,000 hot meals.”

“Our community has had an outpouring of kindness, with everyone pulling together. It’s a successful model of coordinated community building, now used as national best practice. One we are delivering again now to help our community through the Cost of Living Crisis. This Honour is for everyone in Cam & Dursley who helps make that happen.”