Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of the County and City of Bristol, Mrs Peaches Golding OBE CStJ, joins Flamingo Chicks as our latest Patron.

Peaches’ interests include mental health, widening access to opportunities for those most disadvantaged in society, education, social justice, volunteering, and poverty.

She was awarded the OBE in 2009 for services to minority ethnic people in the South West and CStJ for services to humanity in 2020. In 2010, Peaches was awarded an honorary MBA and, in 2017, was awarded an honorary Doctorate of the University by the University of the West of England. She was appointed Honorary Captain Royal Naval Reserve in June 2020.