Yorkshire Asian Business Association founder Sharon Jandu is one of. group of Yorkshire businesspeople awarded an OBE in the first honours list announced by the King.
She is an advocate for both her community and international trade. She has put Asian owned Yorkshire businesses on the global map by creating the Association in 2017, with the aim of educating and promoting Yorkshire-based, Asian-owned businesses at home and overseas.
The organisation has more than 3,500 corporate members, and is still growing. Sharon has driven joint trade opportunities between her membership and primarily the Indian Sub-continent, where she embraces the opportunity emerging from the UK’s free trade agreement with India. She continuously promotes Department for International Trade’s assistance, alongside collaborating on events to bring DIT to her membership’s attention.
She founded the charity Global Diversity Positive Action in 2015, after witnessing failures first hand as a Justice of the Peace.
She said: “It’s an absolute honour and a privilege to receive such a prestigious award for my work educating and promoting Northern based and Asian owned businesses at home and overseas.
“I am grateful to the Department for International Trade for the recognition, and I am also really fortunate to be supported by an incredible team.”
Also awarded the OBE is Sandy Needham, former North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce director, and Richard Sheriff, CEO at Harrogate-based academy group Red Kite Learning Trust.
Awarded the MBE are Robert Clarkson, Chief Systems Engineer at RAF Fylingdales on the North York Moors, and Jill Quinn, founder of North Yorkshire Charity Dementia Forward.
Whitby’s Beth Mead is among four of England’s Lionesses Euro 2022-winning side included on the list, alongside skipper Leah Williamson, Ellen White and Lucy Bronze.
