Queen honours Richard Brickley with OBE

Richard Brickley was made an OBE for his services to disability sport.

He is president of Disability Sport Fife, and has given a lifetime of services to promoting opportunities for athletes in the Kingdom.

Mr Brickley, from Cupar, was previously awarded an MBE.

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His name is synonymous with Fife Institute – now Michael Woods Sports Centre in Glenrothes – where he was a senior member of staff from 1975 to his retiral in 2006.

His current role within Disability Sport Fife has seen him continue to play a lead role in encouraging many Fifers to take up a wide range of sports, and support them to attain the highest levels of success.

He has worked closely with Fife Council, and Fife Sports and Leisure Trust, and with a huge range of sports clubs to nurture a huge number of Paralympian athletes as well as opening doors to many to get involved in sport.

His award was warmly welcomed by Scottish Disability Sport who tweeted: “Many congratulations to Richard Brickley on his OBE for services to disability sport in the #Birthday2020 #UKHonours list. Richard has made significant contributions for decades to disability sport internationally, within the home nations, nationally and locally with DSF.”