{"id":2509,"date":"2021-06-14T11:56:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T10:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakthrough-uk.co.uk\/?p=2509"},"modified":"2025-04-23T10:48:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T09:48:15","slug":"breakthroughs-chair-jackie-driver-awarded-an-obe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakthrough-uk.co.uk\/homepage\/breakthroughs-chair-jackie-driver-awarded-an-obe\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough\u2019s Chair Jackie Driver Awarded an OBE"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2509\" class=\"elementor elementor-2509\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4da3378 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-eae-slider=\"19864\" data-id=\"4da3378\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6a53e16\" data-eae-slider=\"71866\" data-id=\"6a53e16\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-32a257a elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"32a257a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/breakthrough-uk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/meet-the-team_jackie_driver-200x300.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-384\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/breakthrough-uk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/meet-the-team_jackie_driver-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/breakthrough-uk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/meet-the-team_jackie_driver-scaled-600x900.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/breakthrough-uk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/meet-the-team_jackie_driver-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/breakthrough-uk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/meet-the-team_jackie_driver-768x1152.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/breakthrough-uk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/meet-the-team_jackie_driver-1024x1536.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/breakthrough-uk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/meet-the-team_jackie_driver-1365x2048.jpeg 1365w, https:\/\/breakthrough-uk.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/meet-the-team_jackie_driver-scaled.jpeg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8f25cb5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8f25cb5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Congratulations to our Chair Jackie Driver who was awarded an OBE in the 2021 Queen&#8217;s Birthday Honours. The Cabinet Office announced Jackie as a recipient of an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire award (OBE) for \u201cservices to hearing impaired people, equality, diversity and inclusion\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>We are delighted to see that Jackie\u2019s tenacious and creative advocacy for the rights and full inclusion of disabled people, women and LGBT+ communities in society &#8211; over many years &#8211; has been recognised in this way.<\/p>\n<p>Jackie is also the Chair of the Deaf health charity Sign Health.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/signhealth.org.uk\/announcement\/jackie-driver-chair-of-signhealths-board-of-trustees-receives-obe-award\/\">See their article on Jackie\u2019s OBE here<\/a> in both British Sign Language and English.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to our Chair Jackie Driver who was awarded an OBE in the 2021 Queen&#8217;s Birthday Honours. The Cabinet Office announced Jackie as a recipient of an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire award (OBE) for \u201cservices to hearing impaired people, equality, diversity and inclusion\u201d. We are delighted to see that<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/breakthrough-uk.co.uk\/homepage\/breakthroughs-chair-jackie-driver-awarded-an-obe\/\"> [Continue reading&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/breakthrough-uk.co.uk\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/breakthrough-uk.co.uk\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/breakthrough-uk.co.uk\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breakthrough-uk.co.uk\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breakthrough-uk.co.uk\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2509"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/breakthrough-uk.co.uk\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2520,"href":"https:\/\/breakthrough-uk.co.uk\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions\/2520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/breakthrough-uk.co.uk\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breakthrough-uk.co.uk\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/breakthrough-uk.co.uk\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}