AN anti-violence campaigner, who set up a charity after his son died in a one-punch attack, has been awarded his MBE medal.

Dave Rogers, who launched the Lancashire Telegraph-backed Every Action Has Consequences charity with his wife Pat in 2010, visited Buckingham Palace in London to be awarded the medal by the Princess Royal.

Mr Rogers’ son Adam, of Dukes Brow, Blackburn, died after being punched in the head while acting as a peacemaker in a fight in Northgate, Blackburn, in July 2009.

After receiving the medal, in recognition of his services to young people and prisoner rehabilitation, Mr Rogers said he believed his son would have felt proud of his achievements.

The 81-year-old said: “Adam would have loved it. I think he would have had a slightly amused look on his face that this was happening to his dad. I had his watch on during the ceremony, so he was there with me.

“Princess Anne was very good and she knew what the charity was all about. We had a short conversation and I told her some more about the work we do and that it is very rewarding. I told her how it helped to make up for everything that had happened.”

The Every Action Has Consequences campaign goes into schools and prisons to make people think about the results a rash decision can have.

Mr Rogers said: “It was nice to have recognition of the work we have been doing. It is me who has the letters after my name but it is a recognition of everything everybody in the family and Adam’s friends have done.”

Mr Rogers was joined at the palace by Andrew Holt, founder and managing director of What More UK, who was appointed MBE for services to manufacturing and the community in Burnley.

Majid Hussain, executive director at Accrol Papers in Blackburn, was another to receive the MBE medal.

Mr Hussain, of Blackburn Road, Accrington, joined the family firm in 2009 and has built the business into the largest wholly-owned British company producing tissue paper and kitchen roll and the fourth largest soft-tissue converter in the UK.