AoC Gold Awards 2017 Celebrating colleges’ leading alumni & Future Stars The AoC Gold Awards recognise the outstanding achievements of successful and influential alumni of further education (FE) colleges from across the UK.
Jamal Edwards MBE Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College Digital entrepreneur
Charleine Wain Jill Scott City College Plymouth Gateshead College Entrepreneur and owner England and Manchester of Charleine Wain Salons City Footballer
Malorie Blackman OBE City Lit Author and Children's Laureate from 2013-2015 John Boyega South Thames College 2016 winners Actor and one of the Niall McKenna stars of Star Wars: The Belfast Metropolitan College Force Awakens Chef and restaurateur
Reggie Yates City and Islington College TV broadcaster, radio DJ, presenter and actor John Spencer Nelson and Colne College Astronomer and NASA Scientist AoC Gold Awards 2017
The 2017 presentation ceremony will take place at the House of Commons on Wednesday 14 June 2017.
Nominate your successful alumni
This year’s application form and further details on how to apply can be found by visiting www.aoc.co.uk/gold.
Your nominees should have:
attended college for a significant period (e.g. for a › year or until the completion of a qualification)
acknowledged that they benefitted from their time › at college
received public recognition and acclaim, or made a John Boyega, actor and 2016 major contribution in their field › AoC Gold Award winner; South Thames College continued to engage with the college and support › current students.
The deadline for nominations is Friday 16 December 2016. Design the Award
Why nominate? Every year, the AoC Trust asks colleges’ budding designers and Colleges with an AoC Gold Award winner benefit from artists to submit designs for the the positive publicity generated by our national radio, AoC Gold Award trophy. The online and press campaigns which reached over two selected student will have their million people last year. work displayed at a nationally covered event held in the House Roll of Honour of Commons, as well as receiving a commission of £100 per award All eligible non-winners will feature on our Roll of produced. In addition, they will Honour, which is publicised via our website and social be invited to the presentation media. ceremony to meet the winners. The design brief and details of how to apply can be found by visiting www. aoc.co.uk/gold. Future Star
Promising students with similar career aspirations as the AoC Gold Award winners are identified by colleges to be recognised as Future Stars. All Future The grant will help me achieve my Stars are invited to the presentation dreams of travelling to the top ceremony at the House of Commons Michelin restaurants in the UK to meet their winners and mix with a and Ireland to complete the stage range of influential people. programmes.” Connor Bradley, Future Star to Niall McKenna in 2016, studying the City & Future Stars student grants Guilds NVQ Level 3 Professional Chef “Programme at Belfast Metropolitan Three of the Future Stars will be selected to College receive a student grant, which will be presented to them at the event.
The grant will enable them to participate in an activity that will support their career goals, enhance their employability or provide them with an experience that is above and beyond what they might expect to receive as part of their course.
How else can we get involved? I have purchased state-of-the-art football boots, a good investment Full and part sponsorship packages are based on my intensive training and available for organisations wishing to benefit playing program. As there is a lack of from the reach of the Gold Awards publicity female referees, I have completed my campaigns and help promote further referee registration, CRB application education across the UK. and purchased my kit to enable me to referee. You can also help support FE’s Future Stars by making a donation to the Future Stars Grant “I’ve been selected as a volunteer Fund by texting AOCT12 £2 / £5 / £10 to 70070 with Sunderland and Gateshead tier e.g. AOCT12 £5. 1 Regional Talent Football Club, to assist with the training of the girls To keep up with the latest on the AoC Gold U12s and U14s football teams. As Awards, Future Stars and all our other work, part of this, I am completing my level visit aoc.co.uk/gold 1 coaching certification.”
Follow us on social media: Bridget Galloway, aspiring footballer and Future Star to Jill Scott in 2016, @AoCTrust | #AoCGold | #FutureStars studying for a BTEC Level 3 Sport Studies at Gateshead College Past Winners First presented in 1996 and running annually since 2000, the AoC Gold Awards are a celebration of the considerable breadth and depth of outstanding talent amongst college alumni.
Past winners include leading figures from the world of business, journalists, actors, sports personalities, politicians and chefs (all professions correct at the time of award).
College Name Profession Year Alton College Vicky Broadribb MBE Paralympian 2001
Alton College Russell Howard Comedian 2013
Barking & Dagenham College Josette Bushel-Mingo OBE Actress, director and producer 2004
Barking & Dagenham College Idris Elba OBE Actor 2012
Barnet and Southgate College Mary Al-Khudri Owner of the first UK salon for Muslim women 2015
Barnet and Southgate College (formerly Ozwald Boateng OBE Bespoke couturier 2009 Southgate College)
Barnsley College Matt Helders Member of the "Arctic Monkeys" 2007
Barnsley College Alex Turner Member of the “Arctic Monkeys” 2006
Barnsley College Kate Rusby Folk singer 2007
Barton Peveril College Colin Firth CBE Actor 2010
Belfast Metropolitan College Niall McKenna Chef and restaurateur 2016
Bolton College Paul Heathcote MBE Restaurateur 1996
Bolton College Amir Khan Professional boxer 2012
Bradford College Gloria de Piero MP MP for Ashfield and Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities 2014
Bradford College Balbir Panesar President of the Bradford Chamber of Commerce 2009
Brockenhurst College Rob Forkan Founder of Gandys Flip Flops 2014
Brockenhurst College Kate Royal Opera Singer 2009
Burnley College Sir Kevin Smith CBE Chief Executive of GKN plc 2012
Calderdale College Hannah Cockroft MBE Double gold medallist for wheelchair sprinting at London 2012 2013
Capel Manor College Kim Wilde Award-winning gardener 2006
Cardiff and Vale College (formerly Coleg Shelim Hussain MBE Chairman and Chief Executive of the Stewart Milne Group 2005 Glan Hafren)
Carshalton College Richard Blackwood Television personality and actor 2002
Cheadle and Marple Sixth Form College Dame Sarah Storey Paralympian 2010
City and Islington College David Oyelowo OBE Actor 2003
City and Islington College Reggie Yates DJ, TV presenter and actor 2016
City College Brighton and Hove Deborah Meaden Businesswoman and star of BBC's Dragons' Den 2010
City College Coventry David Moorcroft OBE MBE Chief Executive, UK Athletics 2002
City College Norwich Stephen Fry Actor, author, comedian, director 2004
City College Plymouth Anton Piotrowski Chef 2014
City College Plymouth Charleine Wain Owner Charleine Waine Salons 2016
City Lit (formerly City Literary Institute) Steven Berkoff Playwright, actor and director 2001
City Lit (formerly City Literary Institute) Malorie Blackman OBE Author and former Children’s Laureate 2016
City of Bath College Peter France Chief Executive of Rotork plc 2012
City of Liverpool College (formerly Willy Russell Playwright 1996 Liverpool Community College)
City of Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College Kate Barker CBE External Member of the Monetary Policy Committee 2004 City of Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form Joanne Clowes Producer: Microsoft Game Studios, USA 2007 College
City of Wolverhampton College Gurbux Singh Chair of the CRE 2002
Colchester Institute (formerly Braintree Giles Long MBE Paralympian 2005 College)
Coleg Cambria (formerly Deeside Brian Fleet CBE Senior Vice Presidents of Airbus UK 2003 College)
Director of Research, Institute of Clinical Exercise and Health Coleg y Cymoedd Professor Julien Baker 2015 Science, University of the West of Scotland
Coleg y Cymoedd (formerly Coleg Marco Marenghi Lead animator (Walking with Dinosaurs) 2000 Morgannwg)
College of West Anglia Martin Brundle Formula One driver and TV presenter/commentator 2014
Cornwall College Toni Pearce President - National Union of Students 2014
Craven College Justine Whitaker Director of Northern Lymphology 2008
Croydon College John Rocha CBE Designer 2015
Doncaster College Carl Lygo Barrister and Vice Chancellor of BPP University of the Professions 2015
Ealing, Hammersmith & West London Trevor Bayliss OBE CBE Inventor and entrepreneur 2012 College
Ealing, Hammersmith & West London Jamal Edwards MBE Digital entrepreneur 2016 College
East Kent College (formerly Thanet Gary Rhodes OBE Celebrity chef 2000 College)
Edinburgh's Telford College James Thomson OBE Restauranter 2009
Exeter College Michael Caines MBE Chef patron/entrepreneur 2007
Exeter College Spencer Dale Executive Director and Chief Economist at the Bank of England 2010
Gateshead College Jill Scott Professional footballer (England and Manchester City) 2016
Grimsby Institute (formerly Grimsby Art John Hurt Actor 2011 School)
Hackney Community College Jeff Danchie Professional basketball player 2009
Superintendent and member of the Olympic Policing Hackney Community College Leroy Logan MBE 2010 Coordination Team
Editor of the Guardian Newspaper and Editor-in-Chief of Harlow College Alan Rusbridger 2014 Guardian News and Media
Henley College Coventry Marlon Devonish 4 x 100m Gold medalist, record holder 200m 2006
Hereward College Baroness Campbell DBE Commission for Equality and Human Rights 2008
Hereward College Sir Bert Massie CBE Chair, Disability Rights Commission 2003
Hertford Regional College Maggie Alphonsi MBE England rugby player 2013
Hopwood Hall College Lorna Fitzsimons MP Chair of Parliamentary Labour Party Women’s Committee 2002
Hull College Sarah Longthorn Founder of WedgeWelly 2013
Kirklees College Christopher Bailey MBE Chief Executive Officer, Burberry 2014
Kirklees College Baroness Boothroyd Speaker of the House of Commons 1996
Kirklees College Baroness Lockwood Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords 2000
Kirklees College Simon Needham Founder and creative director of ATTIK Communications 2010
Kirklees College James Somerville Founder and creative director of ATTIK Communications 2010
Kirklees College Baroness Warsi Chairman of the Conservative Party 2011
Leeds City College (formerly Park Lane Kay Mellor OBE Playwright and actress 2000 College)
Leeds College of Building Andrew Iveson Managing Director, SIAS Building Services Ltd 2008
Leeds College of Building Mario Martin UK Plumber of the Year 2005, Tradesperson of the Year 2005 2006
Leicester College Gok Wan Channel 4 Presenter and fashion guru 2008
Lincoln College Paul Barron Business consultant 2013
London College of Fashion Jimmy Choo OBE Footwear designer and manufacturer 2000
Luton Sixth Form College Elizabeth Price Turner Prize winning artist 2015
Luton Sixth Form College Prof Sir Alec Jeffreys Royal Society Wolfson Research Professor, Genetics 2008 Myerscough College Paul Burgess Head Groundsman of Real Madrid Football Club 2011
Myerscough College Christine Walkden Horticulturalist, plantswoman, TV presenter 2009
National Star College Katy Etherington Graphic Designer and founder of PA Pool 2012
Nelson and Colne College John Spencer Institute scientist 2016
New College Nottingham Robert Lindsay Actor 2005
North East Scotland College (formerly Emma Brumpton Global adventurer and film-maker 2010 Aberdeen College)
North East Scotland College (formerly Stewart Milne CBE Chairman and Chief Executive of the Stewart Milne Group 2011 Aberdeen College)
Northampton College Adam Grey Executive Chef, Skylon Restaurant 2013
Oldham College Sarah Lancashire Actor 2001
Oldham College Paul Walsh Chief Executive of Diageo plc 2007
Oldham Sixth Form College Dr Munira Mirza London Deputy Mayor, Culture and Education 2014
Oldham Sixth Form College Kevin Sinfield MBE Professional Rugby league player (captain of Leeds Rhinos) 2015
Preston College Nick Park CBE Animator 2005
Richard Huish College Andy Robinson OBE Senior Assistant Coach to the England Rugby Team 2004
Rotherham College (formerly Rotherham College of Arts and Sean Bean Actor 2006 Technology)
Rotherham College (formerly Rotherham College of Arts and Howard Webb MBE Professional international football referee 2015 Technology)
Salford City College (formerly Eccles Hazel Blears MP Labour Party Chair 2007 College)
Sandwell College (formerly Rycotewood Kojo Afful Relief Worker 1996 College)
Sheffield College (formerly Norton Richard McCourt TV and Radio presenter 2008 College)
Shipley College Alan Titchmarch MBE DL Gardner, TV presenter and novelist 2002
South Devon College Greg Fitzgerald Chief Executive of Galliford Try 2013
South Essex College (formerly Thurrock Wale Adeyemi MBE Fashion Designer 2004 and Basildon College)
South Thames College John Boyega Actor 2016
South West College (formerly Neven Maguire Chef and TV presenter 2002 Fermanagh College)
Stockton Riverside College (formerly Richard Griffiths OBE Actor 2000 Stockton and Bilingham College)
Swansea College Henri Oguike Professional dancer/choreographer 2007
The College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London (formerly College of Audley Harrison MBE Gold medalist for heavyweight boxing 2001 North East London)
The Sixth Form College Solihull Justin King CBE Chief Executive of Sainsbury's 2012
Thomas Rotherham College Justine Greening MP Secretary of State for International Development 2012
Pro-Vice Chancellor and Professor of Liver Medicine at Newcastle Tyne Metropolitan College Chris Day 2013 University
Varndean College Natasha Kaplinsky Newsreader and TV Presenter 2003
Wakefield College Faye Banks Young Woman Engineer of the Year 2004 2005
Wakefield College Adeem Younis Entrepreneur and creator of singlemuslim.com 2011
Westminster Kingsway College Jamie Oliver MBE Celebrity chef 2003
Wirral Metropolitan College Christian Furr Artist 2004
Worcester College of Technology Kate Jones Fund Manager, Barclays Global Investors 2006
Xaverian College Andrea Ashworth Author and academic 2003
Xaverian College Lucy Powell MP Shadow Cabinet Office Minister 2015