2025 Finalists – First half

Here are the first half of the Finalists from today’s annoucement. The second half will be announced tomorrow. The winners will be announced at the Presentation Ceremony in London on Tuesday 25th November – details here. Buy tickets here.

All finalists can use the 2025 Finalist logo, which can be downloaded here.

Bus and the Community sponsored by Heathrow

Ask for Angel Street (Stagecoach East Midlands)
Bangor Clerical Team (Translink)
First Bus North & West Yorkshire
Liverpool Zoe’s Place (Arriva Merseyside)
Shelter Scotland (Lothian)
Somerset Passenger Solutions
Storybus (Konectbus)

Culture Change sponsored by Intuitive Talent Solutions

Alzheimer’s Awareness (First Bus East of England)
Changing Gears (Translink)
Double Decker Diaries (Stagecoach East)
Fastrack (Go-Ahead)
Period Positivity campaign (Women in Bus and Coach)
Route 38 Rewired (Arriva Derby)
Transforming the Duty Office (Grant Palmer)
Youth Engagement Programme (West Yorkshire Bus Alliance)

Engineer of the Year

Martin Haldane (Lothian)
Graham Livesey (National Express West Midlands)
Scot Nicholetti (Whippet)
Steve Pither (Stagecoach South Wales)
Tony Spencer (First Bus North & West Yorkshire)
Andy Wilson (Go North West)
Andrew Warrender (Stagecoach Manchester)

Environmental Innovation sponsored by CitySwift

Closed-loop de-inking system (Global)
First Charge (First Bus)
Greener from the ground up (Translink)
Right Bus, Right Route (Grant Palmer)
VEV-IQ (Stagecoach Yorkshire)

London Bus Garage of the Year sponsored by Transport for London

Croydon (Go-Ahead London)
Kangley Bridge (Stagecoach London)
Sutton (Go-Ahead London)
Tolworth (First Bus London)
Westbourne Park (First Bus London)

Luke Rees-Pulley Award for Top London Bus Driver sponsored by The Luke Rees-Pulley Charitable Trust and TfL

Katarzyna Boczkaja (First Bus London)
Vincent Marcelo (First Bus London)
Amal Marzouk (Transport UK London Bus)
Musediku Mohammed (Metroline)
Catherine Mulumba (Stagecoach London)
Shaniya Pinnock-Johnson (Stagecoach London)
Emma Samuels (Stagecoach London)
Jay Songhurst (First Bus London)

Manager of the Year

Toby France – Arriva Midlands)
Jonathon Hunt (First Bus East of England)
Aleksandra Husejko (Grant Palmer)
Chris Kelk (Stagecoach East Midlands)
Gurpreet Sidhu (Metroline)
Sam Teggart (Transport UK London Bus)
Andrew Wilson (Translink)
Jack Wright (Stagecoach East Midlands)

Marketing for Growth

100 tickets for 100 years on the 100 service (Edwards Coaches)
Flightline (Heathrow)
LibertyBus
MK Loop (Milton Keynes Council & partners)
Rejuvenating inter-urban routes (Reading Buses)
Route 1X (Brighton & Hove Buses)
yLink and Youth-Led Engagement (Translink)

Partnership for Excellence: The Peter Huntley Memorial Award

Hull Bus Alliance
Devon Bus Enhanced Partnership
Portsmouth Buses Partnership
Student Travel Pass (Stagecoach East Midlands, trentbarton, Notts County Council and West Notts College)
Vision Awareness Training for Bus Drivers (Thomas Pocklington Trust & partners)
West Northamptonshire Enhanced Partnership

Recruitment and Retention sponsored by Camilleri Appointments

Level Up (Brighton & Hove Buses)
McGill’s Bus Group
More Women Like Us (Go South Coast)
Stagecoach South
Stagecoach West
Transdev Blazefield

 

Finalists in the remaining categories will be announced tomorrow.

Thanks to all our sponsors and supporters, including