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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