A fitness trainer has been made an MBE in recognition for his contribution to sport in the Shetland Islands and to charity abroad.
Mark McLean Wylie, 47, has trained people in athletics, gymnastics and trampolining and has given up much of his annual leave to take young people to national competitions.
He began coaching on the trampoline in 1985 and has run the Shetland Trampoline Championships for the last 16 years.
Mr Wylie, who is currently based in Inverurie at the Garioch Sports Centre, expanded his interest into athletics and gymnastics after Shetland hosted the 2005 Island Games.
The Shetland Islands finished seventh in the competition, with residents’ interest in sport buoyed by the success of the event.
Mr Wylie then developed the Shetland Gymnastics Club, which became the largest sporting club on the islands with 200 children now attending training sessions up to three times a week.
During his career, Mr Wylie produced several champions who represented Scotland at international level.
In the 1990s, he trained Josie McCreadie, who won the Scottish Trampolining Championships in 1993 and represented Scotland at the European and World Championships in Portugal in 1995.
Speaking of the honour, Mr Wylie said: “It is pretty humbling. It has been a massive surprise which I did not expect. It has not yet properly sunk in.”
The coach has also been involved in fundraising for the Shetland Gymnastic Club.
This saw members of the club organise supermarket bag packs, raffles and charity meals.
After a year of fundraising, he took a team of five volunteers to Zambia in 2008, where they spent a summer working in schools teaching English and introducing children to gymnastics.
In 2001 he took a group of eight volunteers to work in orphanages in Romania.