DAME JUDI DENCH, the actress, whose Quaker allegiance is well known, has been made a Companion of Honour in the Queen's Birthday Honours list, announced last Saturday. Among those to receive the highest honours are also the Chief Rabbi, Dr Jonathan Sacks, and the Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain, Iqbal Sacranie, both Knights Bachelor.

There's an LVO for Audrey Dellow, who has recently retired as organist of the Royal Chapel in Windsor Great Park. The chairman of the House of Laity of the General Synod since 1995, Dr Christina Baxter receives a CBE.

Among the OBEs are: the Revd Professor Clifford Burrows, Director of the Centre for Power Transmission and Motion Control at the University of Bath, and NSM of Christ Church Proprietary Chapel, Bath; Colin Glover, chief executive of The Connection at St Martin's, which was formed in 2003 from the London Connection and the St Martin-in-the-Fields Social Care Unit; Martin Phelan, who formerly chaired the Tablet Publishing Company; Nicholas Ridley, director of the Suffolk Cathedral Millennium Appeal; and Stewart Smith, for services to Leprosy Mission International; the Revd Canon Neil Malcolm Clarke, former justices' chief executive for Northamptonshire.

Among the MBEs are Judy Arnold-Boakes, active in the Anglican Church in Majorca, for services to the community (associated with Age Concern);  Louise Da-Cocodia, community worker and deputy lieutenant for Lancashire, for services to the community in Manchester; Anne Davis for services to the community in Norfolk, where she is a churchwarden at Lound, and secretary of both Soroptimists International, and a breast-cancer support group; Professor Grenville Hancox, Professor of Music at Canterbury Christ Church University College; David Southward, for services to the community in Beckermet, Cumbria, where he runs the Scouts, and has supported the church and local cricket club; the Revd Gaythorne Teague TD, formerly NSM of St Andrew's, Harticliffe, Bristol, for services to the community in North Somerset; Canon Jeffry Wilcox, Rector of St Leonard's, Streatham, for his services to the community in Streatham, south London; Robert Williams, teacher at St Michael's C of E Primary School, Highgate, for services to education and to the community in London; and Gabrielle Young, youth-work co-ordinator in Great Horton, West Yorkshire. She has been a youth worker with St John's, Great Horton, for 40 years

In the diplomatic and overseas list, a Synod member since 1985, Maryon Jägers, who has been closely involved in ecumenical developments, receives an MBE for services to the community in the Netherlands and to UK-Dutch relations. In the same list of MBEs, for services to the Commonwealth community in Norway, and to UK-Norwegian relations, is Canon Dr Trevor Park, Chaplain in Oslow with Bergen, Trondheim and Stavanger.

In the Commonwealth list, the CMG is awarded to Bishop Neil Ellis , of the Full Gospel Baptist Church in the Bahamas. A KBE is awarded to the Revd Ikan Rove, a leader in the Christian Fellowship Church, New Georgia, in the Solomon Islands, who has been the pioneer of a project in sustainable forestry.