{"id":9159,"date":"2020-10-09T22:31:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T21:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdn.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=9159"},"modified":"2020-10-09T10:33:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T09:33:26","slug":"jean-awarded-bem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdn.org.uk\/wordpress\/staff\/jean-awarded-bem\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean awarded BEM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdn.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_0804-252x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9489\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdn.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_0804-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/sdn.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_0804.jpg 456w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Our very own Jean Sowten has been awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) in the Queen&#8217;s Birthday 2020 Honours List.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Normally announced in June, the publication of this year&#8217;s list has been delayed by the epidemic (although not in New Zealand, where Kiwi recipients were announced on 6 June).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Government website the BEM is &#8220;awarded for a \u2018hands-on\u2019 service to the local community. This could be a long-term charitable or voluntary activity, or innovative work of a relatively short duration (3 to 4 years) that has made a significant difference.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s no denying that Jean has been &#8216;hands-on&#8217;!  Nor that she has made (and continues to make) a significant difference to local children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-medium is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdn.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/jean-BEM-1-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9180\" width=\"225\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdn.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/jean-BEM-1-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sdn.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/jean-BEM-1-768x600.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sdn.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/jean-BEM-1.jpg 792w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption>British Empire Medal (civil)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>BEM recipients will be presented with their medal by their Lord-Lieutenant, in our case Lady Annabel (Bella) Colgrain, at a local ceremony and also invited to attend a Royal Garden Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It won&#8217;t be the first time Jean will have rubbed shoulders with the great and the good at Buckingham Palace, but she may have to wait until the coronavirus blows over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-large-font-size\"><strong>Congratulations Jean<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"> from everyone at Sevenoaks Day Nursery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our very own Jean Sowten has been awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) in the Queen&#8217;s Birthday 2020 Honours List. Normally announced in June, the publication of this year&#8217;s list has been delayed by the epidemic (although not in New Zealand, where Kiwi recipients were announced on 6 June). According to the Government website the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,22],"tags":[67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdn.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdn.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdn.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdn.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdn.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9159"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sdn.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9501,"href":"https:\/\/sdn.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9159\/revisions\/9501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdn.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdn.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdn.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}