Awards and Honours
In 1988 Stephenson received the Bristol City Council Community Award for Achievement and Services Rendered to the Black Community and the West Indian Community Publishers Award. Further awards include the Bristol West African and Caribbean Council Community Achievers' Award (1996), and the city council's One Person Can Make a Difference Award (2006). In 2007 Stephenson was granted the freedom of the city of Bristol, being the first person of Black origin to be so honoured. The citation stated "Paul Stephenson has devoted his life to improving race relations and encouraging community involvement and is a founder member of the Bristol Black Archives Project which has contributed greatly to an understanding of the history of the City and has helped to build closer relations between all the communities of Bristol."
In 2009 he was given an OBE in recognition "for his services to equal opportunities and to community relations in Bristol." The University of the West of England awarded Paul Stephenson an honorary degree of Master of Education in November 2009, "in recognition of his substantial contribution to pioneering work in race relations and the extension of opportunity to socially excluded young people".
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