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Nominees for the 2025 Union Awards...
Meet the nominees for the 2025 Union Awards! Join us on Wednesday 7th May for the event where the winners will be announced!
- Posted Thu, Apr 17, 2025 10:48 AM

We were overwhelmed with nominations this year - with over 100 nominations for a prestigious Union Award!
Please see below for a list of students/ societies in each category for the Union Awards:
Best New Group
- Swifties Society
- Women's Flag Football
- Jolly Roger Society
- Linux User Group (UPLUG)
- Run Club
- Nigerian Society
Student Group Event of the Year
- Nerdvana
- The Base Spoken (Creative Writing Society)
- London Millenium Bridge House Site Visit (Construction Society)
Student Group of the Year
- Powerlifting
- Pool Society
- Board Games Society
- Pole Dance Society
- Run Club
- UPSAC
- Musical Production Society
- Reenactment Society
- Construction Society
Outstanding Achievement
- Mixed Martial Arts Society
- Nursing Society
- Pure FM
- Construction Society
Student Council Member of the Year
- Kiran Reddy
- Shah Ali
- Safar Hani
- Nancy Patel
- Sih Telsy Akwangha Sih
- Sophie Hulse
- Paige-Elizabeth Brady
- Rowan Mohamed
- Gwen Diprose Deakin
- Rose Brown
- Jack Hayes
- Jay Mercer
- Hannah Greaney
- Isabella DaCosta
- Verity Knight
- Jeet Chatterjee
- Emily Rodrigues
Roxy's Spirit of Participation
- Luke Campbell
- Lucy Pearson
- Adam Murray
- Isabella Da Costa
- Ish Chakraborty
- Luke Campbell
Unsung Hero
- Josh Osborne
- Isabella Da Costa
Student Staff of the Year
- Iulisa Andries
- Anna Parker
- Lauren Massey
- Maximilian Holy
- Simba Dube
- Lottie Parker
- Jonathan Tyler-Moore
- Hugh Wallis
Course Rep of the Year
- Helena Kosová
- Tom Spencer
Full and Half Colours
- Sophie Famili
- Tova Copeman
- Faith Goves
- Hollie Lloyd
- Josh Osborne
- Adam Murray
- Ekko Wilson-Rivers
- Kaz Thomas
- Isaac Payne
- Annabel Heaton
- Emily Rodrigues
- Luke Barton
- Tithi Rathindra Modak
- Abdul Rehman
- Lucy Burrowes
- Hannah Kayisinga
- Marlowe Shale
- Rhianna Brown
- Kaleem Pusey
- Freddie Baldwin
- Gwen Diprose Deakin
- Joseph Thornton Cruickshank
- Daisy O'Shea
- Marie Wheatley
- Max Cornwell
- Sunaina Michelle Roy
- Callum Redgrave
We are also welcoming students who have achieved the Portsmouth Award (in collaboration with the Careers and Employability Service). They are as follows:
Full Award
- Kashish Malik
- Sanjiya Sandeep Wazarkar
- Ben Howell
- Freya McCartney
- Indiana Holt-Morrice
- Priscilla Muhita
- Jack Read-Petts
- Jason Ngheim
- James Bennett
- Joao Nuno Rio Torto Batista
- Lily Bailey
- Chanelle Cunningham
- Hannah Foord
- Telsy Forlemu Akwangha Sih
- Afikah Miah
Element 1 + 2
- Margaret Smith
- Isabel Dodds
- Jovan-Jyot Belkhu
- Olatunde John Afolabi
- Harriette Ellis
- Modupe Bukola Ilesanmi
Element 1
- Jamie Himlin-Ladd
- Rachel Mather
- Joshua Paddon
- Charles Barry
- Ella Buchan
- Dylan Cowie
- Christopher Pearce
- Erin Vaughan
- Samuel Blewitt
- Athena Tsouvallaris
- Hildie Bowden
- Alejandra Sevillano Afan
- Latisha Anongu-Abbott
- Catherine Castro
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