2025 Finalists

Here are the Finalists in the UK Bus Awards 2025. Congratulations to all the companies, organisations and individuals on the list. The winners will be announced at the presentation ceremony in London on Tuesday 25th November. Click here for more details.

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
WheelsOnBoard (Moonbility and National Express West Midlands)

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

ROSCO Award for Contribution to Safer Driving

Busway Lion Scheme (Grant Palmer)
Wayne Gibbins (Brighton & Hove Buses)
Perry Avery (First Bus London)
Specialist Passenger Solutions

Top City Operator sponsored by Init

Arriva Leicester
Brighton & Hove Buses
First Bus North & West Yorkshire
Lothian

Top Contracted Operator

Diamond Bus North West
Go North West
LibertyBus
Stagecoach Manchester

Top National Bus Depot

Aldershot (Stagecoach South)
Bolton (Go North West)
Coleraine Ulsterbus Depot (Translink)
Dover (Stagecoach South East)
Poole (Morebus)
Rawmarsh (Stagecoach Yorkshire)
Witney (Stagecoach West)

Top National Bus Driver: The Chris Moyes Memorial Award sponsored by BUSES magazine

Andrew Bagshaw (Stagecoach Yorkshire)
Iain Bonser (Stagecoach East Midlands)
Alma Cox (Reading Buses)
James Davidson (trentbarton)
Leon Davies (Dews Coaches)
Mike Foran (Stagecoach West)
Zohra Rani (Nottingham City Transport)

Top Shire Operator sponsored by Ticketer

Arriva Midlands
East Yorkshire Buses
First Bus York
Metrobus
Reading Buses
Stagecoach South Wales
Uno

Top SME Operator

Blackpool Transport
Grant Palmer
Huyton Travel
Sanders Coaches
Warrington’s Own Buses

UK Bus Operator of the Year sponsored by C9 Recruitment

The finalists in this category will be the winners of the Top City, Contracted and SME Operator categories, which will be announced on 25th November.

Unsung Hero sponsored by Backhouse Jones

John Cowell (First Bus London)
Will Dawson (Thames Valley Buses)
Tracey-Anne Hancox (Stagecoach East)
Bronagh McDonnell (Translink)
Daniel Sanderson (Nottingham City Transport)
Kevin Wallace (Translink)

Young Manager of the Year sponsored by Young Bus Professionals

Onyemaechi Akutu (First Bus London)
Stevie Collins (Go North West)
Isobel Hedley-Jones (Fastrack)
Khadija Janjua (Stagecoach London)
Ana Stepic (Arriva Midlands)
Henry Young (Stagecoach South Wales)