2025 Results
Here are the results of the UK Bus Awards 2025. Congratulations to all the companies, organisations and individuals on the list. The winners were announced at the presentation ceremony in London on Tuesday 25th November 2025.
Bus and the Community sponsored by Heathrow
Winner, Gold Award: Bangor Clerical Team (Translink)
Winner, Silver Award: Liverpool Zoe’s Place (Arriva Merseyside)
Winner, Bronze Award: First Bus North & West Yorkshire
Finalist: Ask for Angel Street (Stagecoach East Midlands)
Finalist: Shelter Scotland (Lothian)
Finalist: Somerset Passenger Solutions
Finalist: Storybus (Konectbus)
Culture Change sponsored by Intuitive Talent Solutions
Winner, Gold Award: Transforming the Duty Office (Grant Palmer)
Winner, Silver Award: Changing Gears (Translink)
Winner, Bronze Award: Period Positivity campaign (Women in Bus and Coach)
Highly Commended: Fastrack (Go-Ahead)
Finalist: Alzheimer’s Awareness (First Bus East of England)
Finalist: Double Decker Diaries (Stagecoach East)
Finalist: Route 38 Rewired (Arriva Derby)
Finalist: Youth Engagement Programme (West Yorkshire Bus Alliance)
Engineer of the Year sponsored by BUSES magazine
Winner, Gold Award: Martin Haldane (Lothian)
Winner, Silver Award: Steve Pither (Stagecoach South Wales)
Winner, Bronze Award: Graham Livesey (National Express West Midlands)
Finalist: Scot Nicholetti (Whippet)
Finalist: Tony Spencer (First Bus North & West Yorkshire)
Finalist: Andy Wilson (Go North West)
Finalist: Andrew Warrender (Stagecoach Manchester)
Environmental Innovation sponsored by CitySwift
Winner, Gold Award: Closed-loop de-inking system (Global)
Winner, Silver Award: VEV-IQ (Stagecoach Yorkshire)
Winner, Bronze Award: First Charge (First Bus)
Finalist: Greener from the ground up (Translink)
Finalist: Right Bus, Right Route (Grant Palmer)
Lifetime Contribution to the Bus Industry sponsored by Transport Benevolent Fund
Winner, Gold Award: Martin Dean
London Bus Garage of the Year sponsored by Transport for London
Winner, Gold Award: Tolworth (First Bus London)
Winner, Silver Award: Sutton (Go-Ahead London)
Winner, Bronze Award: Kangley Bridge (Stagecoach London)
Finalist: Croydon (Go-Ahead London)
Finalist: Westbourne Park (First Bus London)
Luke Rees-Pulley Award for Top London Bus Driver sponsored by The Luke Rees-Pulley Charitable Trust and TfL
Winner, Gold Award: Katarzyna Boczkaja (First Bus London)
Winner, Silver Award: Emma Samuels (Stagecoach London)
Winner, Bronze Award: Jay Songhurst (First Bus London)
Highly Commended: Musediku Mohammed (Metroline)
Finalist: Vincent Marcelo (First Bus London)
Finalist: Amal Marzouk (Transport UK London Bus)
Finalist: Catherine Mulumba (Stagecoach London)
Finalist: Shaniya Pinnock-Johnson (Stagecoach London)
Manager of the Year: The Andrew Wickham Memorial Award sponsored by Ridango
Winner, Gold Award: Jonathon Hunt (First Bus East of England)
Winner, Silver Award: Aleksandra Husejko (Grant Palmer)
Winner, Bronze Award: Toby France (Arriva Midlands)
Finalist: Chris Kelk (Stagecoach East Midlands)
Finalist: Gurpreet Sidhu (Metroline)
Finalist: Sam Teggart (Transport UK London Bus)
Finalist: Andrew Wilson (Translink)
Finalist: Jack Wright (Stagecoach East Midlands)
Marketing for Growth sponsored by Euro Bus Expo 2026
Winner, Gold Award: Route 1X (Brighton & Hove Buses)
Winner, Silver Award: LibertyBus
Winner, Bronze Award: yLink and Youth-Led Engagement (Translink)
Highly Commended: 100 tickets for 100 years on the 100 service (Edwards Coaches)
Highly Commended: MK Loop (Milton Keynes Council & partners)
Finalist: Flightline (Heathrow)
Finalist: Rejuvenating inter-urban routes (Reading Buses)
Partnership for Excellence: The Peter Huntley Memorial Award sponsored by Leadership in Passenger Transport Awards
Winner, Gold Award: Portsmouth Buses Partnership
Winner, Silver Award: Devon Bus Enhanced Partnership
Winner, Bronze Award: Hull Bus Alliance
Highly Commended: Student Travel Pass (Stagecoach East Midlands, trentbarton,
Notts County Council and West Notts College)
Highly Commended: Vision Awareness Training for Bus Drivers (Thomas Pocklington Trust & partners)
Finalist: West Northamptonshire Enhanced Partnership
Finalist: WheelsOnBoard (Moonbility and National Express West Midlands)
Recruitment and Retention sponsored by Camilleri Appointments
Winner, Gold Award: Level Up (Brighton & Hove Buses)
Winner, Silver Award: McGill’s Bus Group
Winner, Bronze Award: Stagecoach South
Highly Commended: More Women Like Us (Go South Coast)
Finalist: Stagecoach West
Finalist: Transdev Blazefield
ROSCO Award for Contribution to Safer Driving sponsored by ROSCO
Winner, Gold Award: Wayne Gibbins (Arriva London)
Winner, Silver Award: Busway Lion Scheme (Grant Palmer)
Winner, Bronze Award: Perry Avery (First Bus London)
Finalist: Specialist Passenger Solutions
Top City Operator sponsored by INIT
Winner, Gold Award: Lothian
Winner, Silver Award: Brighton & Hove Buses
Winner, Bronze Award: Arriva Leicester
Finalist: First Bus North & West Yorkshire
Top Contracted Operator sponsored by Local Transport Today
Winner, Gold Award: Diamond Bus North West
Winner, Silver Award: Go North West
Winner, Bronze Award: Stagecoach Manchester
Finalist: LibertyBus
Top National Bus Depot sponsored by Velociti
Winner, Gold Award: Poole (Morebus)
Winner, Silver Award: Dover (Stagecoach South East)
Winner, Bronze Award: Rawmarsh (Stagecoach Yorkshire)
Finalist: Aldershot (Stagecoach South)
Finalist: Bolton (Go North West)
Finalist: Coleraine Ulsterbus Depot (Translink)
Finalist: Witney (Stagecoach West)
Top National Bus Driver: The Chris Moyes Memorial Award sponsored by Passenger Transport
Winner, Gold Award: Zohra Rani (Nottingham City Transport)
Winner, Silver Award: Leon Davies (Dews Coaches)
Winner, Bronze Award: Iain Bonser (Stagecoach East Midlands)
Finalist: Andrew Bagshaw (Stagecoach Yorkshire)
Finalist: Alma Cox (Reading Buses)
Finalist: James Davidson (trentbarton)
Finalist: Mike Foran (Stagecoach West)
Top Shire Operator sponsored by Ticketer
Winner, Gold Award: Reading Buses
Winner, Silver Award: Metrobus
Winner, Bronze Award: First Bus York
Finalist: Arriva Shrewsbury and Telford
Finalist: East Yorkshire Buses
Finalist: Stagecoach South Wales
Finalist: Uno
Top SME Operator sponsored by Intsol Recruitment
Winner, Gold Award: Blackpool Transport
Winner, Silver Award: Sanders Coaches
Winner, Bronze Award: Warrington’s Own Buses
Finalist: Grant Palmer
Finalist: Huyton Travel
UK Bus Operator of the Year sponsored by C9 Recruitment
Winner, Gold Award: Blackpool Transport
Winner, Silver Award: Diamond Bus North West
Winner, Bronze Award: Reading Buses
Finalist: Lothian
Unsung Hero sponsored by Backhouse Jones
Winner, Gold Award: John Cowell (First Bus London)
Winner, Silver Award: Daniel Sanderson (Nottingham City Transport)
Winner, Bronze Award: Kevin Wallace (Translink)
Finalist: Will Dawson (Thames Valley Buses)
Finalist: Tracey-Anne Hancox (Stagecoach East)
Finalist: Bronagh McDonnell (Translink)
Young Manager of the Year sponsored by Young Bus Professionals
Winner, Gold Award: Isobel Hedley-Jones (Fastrack)
Winner, Silver Award: Khadija Janjua (Stagecoach London)
Winner, Bronze Award: Henry Young (Stagecoach South Wales)
Highly Commended: Stevie Collins (Go North West)
Finalist: Onyemaechi Akutu (First Bus London)
Finalist: Ana Stepic (Arriva Midlands)
