New Year's Honours: Your full guide to the West Midlands' great and good

Volunteers going above and beyond and sports men and women helping to put the area on the map have been named in the New Year honours list.

Camilla Phillips from Halesowen has been awarded an MBE for services to the community through The Hope Centre in Halesowen

For the past six year she has dedicated herself to helping the residents of Halesowen, in particular the Highfields estate which is one of the most deprived areas in the country.

Following the closure of the Lighthouse project the 56-year-old was working on in 2009, she decided to volunteer full-time to keep the service going for the community.

She met with councillors, police and others with influence to use the former Lighthouse building to form the Hope Centre, which is based in Andrew Road.

In 2010 she set up the Hope Centre Charity with the overriding motto being that no matter what the need of any individual, no one would be turned away.

She assembled a team of dedicated volunteers who go to the community seeking out those that need help, be it the homeless, the elderly, asylum seekers, the deprived or those with learning disabilities.

"We are aim to be like a family. We always say to volunteers what would you do if it was a member of your family who was asking for help? The answer is we would do everything we could," said Ms Phillips.

She said she was 'amazed' to hear she would be receiving a MBE, adding it hadn't quite sunk in yet.

"I may be the one receiving the award but it's really a team effort. I was really shocked when I first found out - I thought someone was playing a joke on me. It's a huge honour - there is not greater recognition than that from the Queen," added Ms Phillips.

Dr David Hegarty, who is chairman of Dudley Clinical Commissioming Group (CCG) has been awarded an MBE for services to primary care.

Dr Hegarty, who is a partner at Wychbury Medical Practice in Stourbridge, said: "I feel extremely privileged to have been honoured with a MBE. In isolation I would not have made the achievements I have and I believe this Honour is, attributable to the many committed people who I have had the pleasure of working with over the last 26 years.

"I would like to thank, my wife, family, colleagues and great GPs in Dudley for their support and also my patients for maintaining my passion for the NHS and primary care."

Pamela Preston, from Dudley, a volunteer with Samaritans, has been awarded a British Empire Medal for services to mental health in the West Midlands.

Halesowen cycling ace Helen Scott, who won gold in the women's B 1000m time trial at the Rio Paralympics has also been honoured.

The 26-year-old has been handed an MBE for services to cycling.

Ian Powell, from Sedgley, who was formerly chairman of accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers has been made a Knights Batchelor

Mr Powell joined the firm in 1977 straight from Wolverhampton Polytechnic.

His time with the company saw him lead it through the global financial crisis and expand into specialist areas such as cyber security and data analytics.

Paralympic swimmer Claire Cashmore, from Kidderminster, has received an MBE for services to swimming, Kidderminster.

She finally lived her dream of Paralympic gold after helping ParalympicsGB 4x100m medley team to victory in Rio.

The 28-year-old also won a silver medal in the 100m Breaststroke when she came in a close second place.

Charles Talbot, aged 85, from Kidderminster, was awarded an MBE for his services to the community over the past 60 years.

He played a vital part in setting up the Kidderminster Youth House in 1970 and in October 2012, the Museum of Carpet opened to the public thanks to his determination and perseverance.

He said: "I have thoroughly enjoyed my time doing what I do.

"This comes as a considerable surprise but because I have know since November I will now look forward to celebrating with a family meal, as it was planned that I tell them on Friday night.

"I have thought about it a great deal over the past month and its a honourable way of being thanked.

"This is a beginning of a new chapter in my life now.

"If what I have done has inspired people and allowed them to have fun, then hope I can continue to do that into my senior years.

"This has just been a way of life for me. But having this award will not change me one bit. But I would like to say a very big thank you to all those who have supported me in silence over the years."

Former executive headteacher of Stourport High School Liz Quinn has been awarded an MBE for services to education.

She joined the school as an assistant headteacher in 1994 and stepped down in summer last year.

Davinder Kaur, aged 56, from Fallings Park, Wolverhampton was awarded a British Empire Medal for her services as one of the founding members of SWEDA (Skills Work and Enterprise Development Agency), based in West Bromwich.

She has been involved with the organisation since its inception in 1989, working alongside women seeking to launch businesses, who at the time often experienced a patronising attitude from traditional advice services.

Today, SWEDA helps all the family.

She said: "This award will be for the whole organisation as well as me.

"Our aim has always been to help people and their wellbeing, and we have achieved that above and beyond across the years.

"I recently had an email from a lady who had started a business and asked if we could be of any help. We never close our doors to anyone and we will continue to support women and their families.

"I always wanted to give people the confidence and support they needed to help them move forward.

"Despite my shock at this award, I am absolutely delighted too."

Karen Ross, whose 16-year-old daughter Rosemary, known as Rosie, who was stabbed to death while on a shopping trip with a friend in Birmingham, in 2001, has been honoured for her charity work.

After losing her daughter the 56-year-old from Aldridge started Rosie's Helping Hands with her husband Sean and has raised £450,000.

She has been awarded an MBE for her services to charity and the reduction of knife crime among young people in Walsall.

"It has been really nice to be recognised for the work to do with knife crime because that's not always been easy to put across.

"We have decided to close the charity after finishing our fundraising but their is a lot of money that we can now hand out in grants and donations. I will always continue do charity work and share my experience.

"We started the charity when we lost Rosemary in 2001. Its still open at the moment but we finished fundraising this Christmas.

"Over the past 15 years we've managed to raise 450,000.

"We've helped small charities and voluntary organisations that work with young people within a 15 mile radius of Walsall."

Siraaj-ul-Haq Nadat from Walsall, who is a senior quality of life facilitator at Changing Our Lives, has been awarded a British Empire Medal for services to people with disabilities . The organisation works with disabled people and people with lived experience of mental health difficulties.

Jaguar Land Rover's head of community relations, who has overseen projects at the firm's engine manufacturing centre at the i54 near Wolverhampton has been awarded an MBE for outstanding service to the community .

Les Ratcliffe from Coventry took up the position in 1998 but has worked at JLR for more than four decades. He said: "It's a huge honour to be awarded an MBE. My 43 years' service has been an extraordinary journey, starting with Jaguar after serving in the Parachute Regiment.

He was part of the team which helped the company win BITC's Responsible Business of the Year 2013 and was made the Prince of Wales' Business in the Community Ambassador for the West Midlands 2008. In 2011 he was granted the City of Coventry Award of Merit for outstanding personal contribution to JLR while promoting community relations in the city.

Among those honoured in Staffordshire is para-equestrian Lee Pearson from Stone who has been given a knighthood.

In Rio the 42-year-old added gold from the Individual Freestyle grade Ib and silver in Dressage to his golds in Beijing and London.

The decorated Paralympian already held the MBE, OBE and CBE for services to equestrianism and to disabled sport.

He said: "Whilst this honour acknowledges achievement, it's as much about recognising the story and the struggle of the Paralympic movement and people with disabilities, it's about recognising our collective sporting achievements and how far we have come as elite professional athletes and people.

"Obviously through out my life there has been many people around me that have helped me in my daily life and my career. They have all contributed to this honour in some way and I am very grateful for their support.

"My family and friends mean everything to me and have helped me so much throughout my life and career so the biggest thank you goes to them.

"My life has been full of surreal moments, changes and situations but the enormity of this honour will certainly take some time to get my head around."

Fellow Rio gold medallist Joe Clarke has been awarded an MBE for services to canoeing.

The 24-year-old from Stone, who has also been awarded the Freedom of Stafford Borough,won Olympic gold in the men's slalom K1.

While swimmer Adam Peaty, who broke a world record in the 100m breaststroke in Rio, has been awarded an MBE for services to swimming.