SAXOPHONE STAR YolanDa Brown picked up an OBE in the New Years honours list.

The jazz musician was honoured for services to music, education and broadcasting.

Other notable individuals on the list includes filmmaker John Akomfrah, who co-founded the Black Audio Film Collective and documented the 1986 Handsworth uprisings.

Akomfrah, whose work includes a tribute to celebrated academic professor Stuart Hall, picked up a CBE.

Football pundit Chris Kamara, perhaps best known for missing a red card while chatting to studio presenter Jeff Stelling, got an MBE for services to the sport and anti-racism.

Tory MP and former solicitor Helen Grant got an OBE, along with entrepreneur Mavis Amankwah.

Others who received New Years awards include Dawid Konotey-Ahulu, co-founded of the 10,000 Interns Foundation; Susan Fajana-Thomas, founder of the SFT Foundation Trust; and Dr Jeffery Quaye of the Aspirations Academies Trust. 

Waltham Forest mortician Jahran Allen-Thompson, and Conrad Gayle, diversity manager at the Crown Prosecution Service, were also recognised.

Oluwole Folayan, co-founded of the Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers UK was given an MBE.

Bejay Mulenga also added MBE to her name, for services to entrepreneurship and tackling food poverty.

Baker Cynthia Tooley, who founded the Jedidah organisation, which also tackles hunger, got an OBE for services to charity.

Community activist Bertha Yakubu was honoured for services to the African Community in Scotland.

Autism campaigner Nura Aabe, whose son Zak suffers from the condition, had her work recognised, along with Maxwell Apaladaga Ayamba, founder of the Sheffield Environmental Movement.

Church of England Reverend Innocent Kiyaga got an OBE for his community work in Devon and Cornwall.

Enyojo Opaluwa-Pinheiro, founder of the Passenger Services BAME Network, picked up an OBE for services to diversity and inclusion.

Denise Lewis was made a Dame.