(trustee of the Sport for Good Foundation) and a Council member for the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust. As well as this, she is the Patron of the Tees Wheelyboats Club, a group providing disabled people with access to the River Tees, In July 2011, Grey-Thompson was announced as the President of the Leadership 20:20 Commission, the commission on the future leadership of Civil Society. She launched the commission's recommendations in Parliament on 14 December 2011. Previously, she has also been a Trustee of V, the Tony Blair Sports Foundation, Sportsaid Foundation (of which she was a recipient as a young athlete), an International Inspiration Ambassador and Chair of the Women's Sports and Fitness Foundation Commission on the Future of Women's Sport. Grey-Thompson has also been the Chancellor of Northumbria University since July 2015. In December 2021, Grey-Thompson was appointed as Chair of the North of Tyne Combined Authority's Inclusive Economy Board. Parliamentary career On 23 March 2010, Grey-Thompson was created a life peer on the recommendation of the House of Lords Appointments Commission (HOLAC). Despite previously suggesting a desire for a title with a Welsh connection, her title was conferred as Baroness Grey-Thompson, of Eaglescliffe in Stockton-On-Tees on 23 March 2010. Grey-Thompson was introduced in the House of Lords on 29 March, swearing the oath of allegiance in both English and Welsh and sits as a crossbencher. In August 2014, Grey-Thompson was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue. Honours In 1993, she was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for "services to Athletics for the Disabled", advanced in 2000 to Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), and then in 2005 was promoted to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE), in both cases for "services to disabled sport". Grey-Thompson was named the BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year three times; in 1992, 2000 and 2004. In 2000, she came third in the BBC Sports Personality of the Year, behind Steve Redgrave and Denise Lewis. That year she also received the Helen Rollason Award for her performance at the 2000 Summer Paralympics. In August 2009, she was made a member of the Gorsedd at the 2009 National Eisteddfod in Bala, Gwynedd. Willenhall School Sports College, West Midlands has named a