The New Year Honours list has been revealed – and people across Barnet and Enfield have been recognised as “high achieving” members of society.

The Honours list recognises the achievements and “extraordinary people” across the UK. Six people from Barnet and four from Enfield have been recognised in the list.

Seven are in line to receive the British Empire Medal (BEM), while three will receive the Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Below is the list of people who will be receiving the two honours in the two areas:

Kathryn Mary Fulton, 55 (BEM)

Mrs Fulton left her work as a barrister in 2005 to help disadvantaged people.

When she first began this work in 2005, it was through the creation of an audio magazine for the blind. For over 13 years she has never missed an episode of this magazine, which is released monthly and distributed all over the country.

She volunteered for a charity called the Reader, an award-winning charitable project that works to connect people through shared reading. When the charity was no longer able to employ a paid employee for the Barnet region, she stepped in to do the work of running the Barnet branch of the Reader on a volunteer basis.

Dhruv Mansukhlal Chhatralia, 35 (BEM)

Mr Chhatralia, from Barnet, established the youth wing of an organisation called Satkarma Humanitarian Youth Awakening Mission (SHYAM) while working full-time as an international lawyer.

He has single handedly steered the group to be leaders in their communities through applying the lessons of the world religions.

Over the past ten years, he has built the youth wing of SHYAM from scratch to reach a membership of over 3,000. His online leadership skills and empowerment seminars have inspired a global online audience which has resulted in SHYAM gaining 320,000 Facebook fans who get access to his YouTube seminars with over 400,000 views.

Manfred Goldberg (BEM)

Mr Goldberg, from Hendon, has been sharing his Holocaust experience with students and young adults for many years.

In the last five years alone almost 11,000 adults and children have heard his testimony.

He regularly addresses community groups, religious organisations and local authorities in a bid to educate the wider public on where hatred, prejudice and antisemitism can lead.

Kurt Marx, 94 (BEM)

Mr Marx, from Edgware is a speaker at schools and to adult groups and has spoken at the site of Maly Tostenets, a village near Minsk in Belarus which was the site of a German extermination camp.

He frequently goes to Cologne at the invitation of the Ober Burgermeister to speak to the school children there.

He has also taken part in inter-generational panels talking to synagogue groups on the impact of the Holocaust on subsequent generations.

Marianne Dorothee Summerfield, 81 (BEM)

Mrs Summerfield, from East Finchley, has been sharing her testimony with students and young adults for several years.

Over the past six years alone, she has shared her testimony with over 6,000 people, primarily school students and university students.

She has made it her duty to share her testimony with the next generation in schools and colleges, relating the traumatic experiences she underwent at such a young age. She also regularly addresses community groups, religious organisations and local authorities in a bid to educate the wider public on where hatred, prejudice and antisemitism can lead.

She has been a regular speaker at Holocaust Memorial Day commemorations and regularly addresses university students, both in the UK and abroad, in a bid to combat campus antisemitism.

Alan William Seldon, 60, (BEM)

Mr Seldon, from Palmers Green, started volunteering for the police in 1978, and since 2007 he has designed the system for, implemented and then led all professional and voluntary police officer staff within the Specialist Crime function in the Metropolitan Police, a high profile department.

Initially he created an idea of using specialists in their trade in the Art and Antiques world, embarking on a project called 'ArtBeat', where a number of Special Constables were recruited from museums, art venues and auction houses in London to help out this small five full-time officer unit deal with the disproportionate volume of work they deal with, including helping to find and restore stolen artwork from markets and auction houses in and around London.

These ArtBeat officers also helped on-going investigations by imparting their industry knowledge to the Detectives whose job it was to investigate technically challenging and complex crime.

David Hastings, 57 (BEM)

Mr Hastings, who lives near Wood Green, is nominated for his outstanding contribution and achievements for the LGBT+ community.

He has consistently acted as an Ambassador for equality, diversity and inclusion throughout his 17 plus years service.

He was the Chair of the LGBT+ Network at the Care Quality Commission from 2017-2019.

In 2018, Care Quality Commission sought to assess achievements and progress on LGBT+ equality by submitting evidence against the UK Workplace Equality Index.

As a result he worked hard to maintain CQC's commitment to equality and his work was recently rewarded by the improvement to CQC's position on the Stonewall UK Workplace Equality Index ' a rise of 40 places in one year.

He is exemplary in supporting events and inspiring others to do so such as 2018's UK Black Pride (Europe's largest celebration for African, Asian, Middle Eastern, Latin American and Caribbean-heritage LGBT+ people).

Virginia Mary Greenwood, 62 (MBE)

Mrs Greenwood created, drove and delivered the celebration of the Institution of Civil Engineers' (ICE) 200th Anniversary (bicentenary) a pivotal part of the Year of Engineering campaign (chair of the organising committee in the organisation of the National Commemorative Service in Westminster Abbey in November 2018).

The ICE 200 Exhibition was seen by over 25,000 people in London and 40,000 on tour in the North of England. Over 100,000 people visited the various exhibitions overseas and persuaded Belfast Airport to rebrand for the whole of 2018 to showcase engineering.

From 1991-2002 she was involved in fundraising and other projects such as The Art Room, Oxford as Founder Development Director, the same role for the Hampstead and Highgate Festival and also as a fundraising consultant for Northern Ballet.

Natasha Delia Letitia Gordon, 44 (MBE)

Mrs Gordon, from Wood Green, has had an extensive stage career as well as appearing in various renowned television productions including Line Of Duty, Eastenders and You Me And The Apocalypse.

Her debut performance as a playwright, Nine Night, premiered at the National Theatre in 2018.

Nine Night is a rumination on Jamaican immigrant experience in London, the title a reference to the traditional Jamaican nine night wake.

In bringing Nine Night to Trafalgar Studios, she became the first black British female playwright to have her work staged in the West End.

Leslie Baruch Brent, 94 (MBE)

Mr Brent, from Muswell Hill, has spoken at The Association of Jewish Refugee’s (AJR) Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) and was instrumental in ensuring that AJR placed a plaque in the grounds of the school at Bunce Court set up by Anna Essinger, which he attended.

He spoke at Westminster Abbey on the anniversary of Kristallnacht and at the Quakers’ 80th Kindertransport anniversary event at Friends House in London.

He has for many years returned to Berlin to speak to school children about his experiences.

He was born Lothar Baruch in Koslin, Germany, now Poland, to German-Jewish parents. He was placed in a Jewish orphanage in Berlin aged eleven by his parents, to shelter him from antisemitism. Following Kristallnacht, Brent was ferried to England on the first Kindertransport, where he remained in England after hearing of the execution of his parents, becoming a British citizen and enrolling at the University of Birmingham.