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North East Businessman Receives CBE

Business angel Jeremy Middleton has received his CBE from Her Majesty the Queen in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.

Mr Middleton, who owns investment company Middleton Enterprises, was made a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday honours for services to charity and politics.

Mr Middleton said: “It was a great privilege and honour to attend Buckingham Palace and have the CBE officially bestowed upon me by the Queen.

“My hope is that being made a CBE will turn the spotlight on the fantastic work done by volunteers involved in the political arenas and charities that I support.”

Mr Middleton, who is a board member of the North Eastern Local Enterprise Partnership, helps promote North East business and the region’s investment potential to a wide audience through his prominence in political circles.

From 2005 until earlier this year, he was a volunteer member of the Conservative Party Board, latterly in the post of deputy chairman.

He also has forged a reputation for his support of a range of charitable causes.

Mr Middleton’s charitable endeavours include:

Climbing Mount McKinley, the highest mountain in the Northern hemisphere, which raised £7,500 for St Oswald’s Hospice in Newcastle.

He also has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in October 2002, raising £7,500 for St Oswald’s Jigsaw Appeal. He has run the Great North Run twice.

In April 2004, he raised more than £25,000 for St Oswald’s by walking to the North Pole.

He initially volunteered to use his business expertise to help establish a “trading” business for St Oswald’s in 2001. Mr Middleton now is a Director of St Oswald’s Promotions Company, which run the charity’s network of retail shops and its very successful regional lottery. He also has raised significant funds through sponsored walks/treks.

Mr Middleton has just joined the Board of the Cyrenians, a high profile North East charity that focuses on the socially excluded.

Mr Middleton has been an active supporter of Variety Club of Great Britain (Northern Region) since 2004. He initiated and funded the “Build a Bus” campaign, aimed at creating new income streams for the club from companies, in association with JAM Marketing.

He is involved in venture philanthropy. He has been a long-term promoter of ‘investing with a social conscience’. He established a fund at the Tyne and Wear and Northumberland Community Foundation and has supported a range of charities with their commercial operations including the Cyrenians, based in Newcastle and social enterprise Dinamic Ceramics in Ashington, Northumberland. He most recently funded a Variety Sunshine coach for St Cuthbert’s School in Kenton.

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