Rays of Sunshine Co-Founder Stephen Allan honoured with OBE in King’s 2025 New Years Honours List

Rays of Sunshine Co-Founder and Chairman of Trustees, Stephen Allan, has been awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the King’s 2025 New Years Honours List.

A young girl in a wheelchair wearing a yellow Rays of Sunshine T-shirt smiles with two adults, one in a grey vest and the other in a matching yellow T-shirt, at an indoor event

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