► Last year's winners

 

2011 ULU Laurels - Winners

ULU Laurels:

Laurels awards have been bestowed on the following for their notable service to the union;

Shaz Amjad, Nikita Arumalla, Tom Chambers, Andrew De Castro, Kirsten Dewar, Yihan Goh,Rahim Hakimi, Liam Hoare, James Johnston, Ingrida Kerusauskaite, Martin Lambert, Tara Lee,Cecily Lui, Artur Majsterek, Eavan McKay, Man-Sun Poon, Sam Price, Philip San, Andy Silvester,Cherry Sit, Kate Vine, Stephanie Wilson, Vanessa Woolhead, Chris Wright, Hannah Wright 

 

Honorary Life Membership Awards :

Mazdak Alizadeh, Darrell Barnes, Jane Doogan and Nizam Uddin for their outstanding and exceptional service to ULU.

Hilary Aked, Lubaaba Al Azami and HollyThompson for their outstanding and exceptionalservice to London Student Newspaper.

Kasia Grabowska for her outstanding andexceptional service to ULU Dancesport.

Susannah Jackson for her outstanding andexceptional service to ULU Jazz Society.

Linda Coombs for her outstanding and exceptionalservice to ULU Mountaineering Club.

David Pearce for his outstanding and exceptionalservice to ULU Sub Aqua Club.

The Reverend Stephen Williams for his outstandingand exceptional service to ULU as Returning Officer.

Mike Baggs for his outstanding and exceptionalservice to the London Colleges Cross Country League.

Gerard Ward for his outstanding and exceptionalservice to the ULU Invitational Cricket Team. 

 

Standard Shields:

Standard Shields have been bestowed upon thefollowing for their outstanding contribution and achievements for their societies;

Ross Allan, Megan Creese-Smith, Clare Davies, Fiona Du, Ai Wei Fung, Simon Hendry, LucyJerram, Joanne Lai, Ming Li, Brais Louro Larino, Christina Moore, Erik Rijkhorst, Sarah Ryan, Meilute Siaulyte 

 

Most Improved Membership:

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Best New Society:

Pro Bono Society having attained recognition duringthe year has shown the most energy, enthusiasm and achievement in establishing itself as a valued activityfor students.

 

Society of the Year:

Jazz Society for their commendable developmentand achievements throughout the year.

 

Officer of the Year:

Susannah Jackson for her personal commitmentand dedicated service to ULU Jazz Society.

 

Mentor of the Year:

Pete Long for his inspirational direction of the JazzSociety.

 

President’s Award:

 Sean Rillo Raczka and Victoria Szmolar

 

Founders Shield:

Overseas Christian Fellowship (OCF) has been at the forefront of student activities this year. The society endeavours to be a home-away-from-home for overseas students and the weekly meetings regularly attract 70-80 members for worship, bible study and fellowship.Members of OCF enthusiastically took part in a three-day project called ‘Love Your Uni’ in partnership with other ULU and UCL societies and two local churches to provide a range of activities around campus. The aim was to demonstrate love to students and get them thinking about others, i.e. outside of themselves. Examples of events were: free pancakes and various tea/coffee/baked goods giveaway stalls, a ‘chill-out room’ for students to come and relax, giving out water and flip-flops during and after ULU sports night and encouraging ‘random acts of kindness’. For example one of the students decided to buy donuts for his entire lecture theatre. The culmination of the event was a free gig in ULU organised by members of OCF.

The society provides a shining example of community outreach promoting ULU to both the student population and surrounding neighbourhood.   

 

William Ross Murray Award:

Tony Benn for his lifelong commitment tocampaigning against social injustice as President of Stop The War Coalition and Coalition of Resistance. 

 

The London Student of the Year Award:

Amber Rosier  

Amber is dedicated to fighting global poverty. Studying for a Masters at SOAS, majoring in economic development she has learnt Swahili to better facilitate communication with those she aspires to work with in Africa. Whilst funding herself and dealing with personal problems and the death of a close friend, she has persevered, not with the intent of bettering herself, but to better understand the issues facing those she seeks to help.

Whilst achieving great grades, Amber has worked at ULU alongside the Sabbaticals, assisting students with topical campaigns such as that for the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender community and the fight against cuts to higher education. She helped organise a trip to Berlin for Holocaust Memorial day and a big event for Love Music hate Racism.

Amber’s contribution does not end there, she gives up weekends to help her community. Volunteering as an outreach officer, giving one to one counselling to HIV patients and working tirelessly to reduce stigma. Additionally Amber has been volunteering for Tenteleni, training, supporting and helping to enable 130 students to volunteer in sub-Saharan Africa. She also campaigned with Amnesty International UK, producing materials for 42,000 activists.