Licensees recognised in The Independent on Sunday's Happy List 2013

Tina Massie of the Red Lion Knotty Green in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, has been named a community enthusiast.

The newspaper said: “It’s hard to find an area of life in Beaconsfield that this grandmother hasn’t been involved in.”

She told the Publican’s Morning Advertiser that she works full-time at a local primary school during the day, and then runs her pub in the evening.

Massie has worked as a lollipop lady in the past, and now puts on several fun charity events to help the local community.

She said: “I think it’s because I’m nosey. I’m not sure if it crosses the line with being helpful.

“I’m very flattered. I feel I just work like everyone else does.”

Jim and Naomi Woolley of the Hare Inn in Linslade, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, have been recognised for their work to raise more than £20,000 in the last 18 months.

They also set up PTSD Resolution which arranges therapy for sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorder and helps forces veterans.

The charity began as a website, and Jim explained that he realised the need for people to network in person, so set it up in the pub.

PTSD Resolution now has 42 pubs involved; it has helped to re-house 15 people in the last 18 months and has arranged therapy for 150 people.

“We gear it around the pub and launched it with a fire walk to show prove that the mind is stronger than the body,” said Jim.

“I’d like to think this will get more awareness for us.”

Esther Sutton of the Green Dragon in Croydon, Greater London, is also on the list. The Independent on Sunday​ quotes her nominator, saying that the single mother manages the pub “with the minimum of thought for personal enrichment and the maximum for improving the community”.