One of the people to receive an award is the East Midlands Sir Paul Brierley Smith, who has been awarded the companion of honour. He left school with no qualifications, and went from humble beginnings in a tiny shop in Nottingham to building the Paul Smith empire which now spans 52 countries.
Other people who were awarded an honour include Victoria Mary Taylor Heywood CBE (Lady Jones) who is currently Chair of Mountview, the leading UK drama school, and she also sits on the board of the National Theatre and is a trustee of the Foyle Foundation.
The Foyle Foundation are a grantmaking trust whose dominant purpose is to benefit arts. They have a small grants scheme, which at present provides charities that have an annual turnover of less than £150,000 per annum one-year grants only to cover core costs or essential equipment, to enable ongoing service provision, homeworking, or delivery of online digital services to charities that can show financial stability.
Details of the grant scheme can be found here.
Details of all the people who have received honours can be found here.