Heroes Awards Announce 2025 Shortlist

The Heroes Awards are pleased to announce shortlisted finalists for the National Highways supported awards ceremony.

The awards are the only time the supply chain and the client body have come together to recognise the value and importance of those unsung heroes we put to work everyday Set up after a time of unprecedented change not only in our industry, but as part of our everyday lives we believe this is the ideal time to celebrate the hard work and success of our workers, who have coped admirably in the face of adversity, to recognise the heroic actions of them which, until now, has gone unnoticed.

Led by a number of well known industry figures the finalists (in no particular order) are:  

John Shelton	Balfour Beatty
Chris Harris	Core Highways
Aaron Davies	Flannery Plant
Kevin Clayton	Amco Giffen
Hardeep Sanghera	Fortel
Zak Martin	Costain
Maisy Knox	Fortel
Stuart Organ, Andrew Dobson, Jikoto Nowa	HW Martin
Stuart Lovatt	Project Edward/TyreSafe
Billy Belcher, Lyndon Eaves, Shie-An Whysall, Joshua Skivington	Network Plus
Scott Dowsett and Rob Osbourne	WJ
Ian Raine	Amey
Joe Bates	M Group
Keeley Russell	Galliford Try
Ian Harvey	M6 Toll
Sahil Usman	Snackverse
Seema flower	Blind ambition
Darren Yates	Core Highways
Billy Miller	SWARCO
Grant Gilliland	SRM
Chris Driver	Buko Traffic and Safety
Paul Skelton	Skanska
Sam Hedges, Mark Finch, Dylan	AllTask
Matthew McDonald	Skanska
Geroge Hill	M Group Highways
Jade Ferguson	Buko Traffic and Safety
Chris Allenby	Buko Traffic and Safety
Nigel Railton	Connect Plus Services
Lee Collings	Sir Robert McAlpine
Terry Barr	Octavius
Ros Pluck	Sir Robert McAlpine
Alan Cooper Snr, Ronnie Goundry, Mick Citro and Sean McAndrew	Sir Robert McAlpine
Ben McCluskey and Chris English	Amco Giffen
George Marks	Marlborough Highways Ltd
Lacey Nash	Connect Plus Services
Nancy Norris	Connect Plus Services
Grant Gilliland	Sir Robert McAlpine
Lewis Gould	Quantum Traffic management Ltd
Marek Zawilinski, Josh Jones, and Shaun Greenaway	M Group Highways
Mill Road Project Team	M Group Highways, DJT Surfacing & Avanti Traffic Management
Lauren Thomas	Hw Martin
Neil Fitzpatrick	SWARCO
Irene Stewart	National Highway
Ian Percival	HW Martin
Ian mitchell	HW Martin
Tyler Gurr	HW Martin
Dean Penney	Go Traffic Management
Carl Watkins	SRL Traffic Systems
Kenneth Townsend	Portsmouth City Council
Ian Parkinson	Amey
Christian Booth	M Group Highways
Karin Harwood	Ringway Infrastructure Services
Ryan Kostromin	Core Highways
Richard Crabtree	Slater and Gordon Lawyers
David MacCabe	Balfour Beatty Living Places
Paul Chambers, Mark Bailey, Ryan Whittaker, Jack Hopkinson, Jonny Tyler, Anthony Keane and Sean Maher	Toppesfield
Rhys Rawson	Skanska Infrastructure
Daniel Morgan	Danny Sullivan Group
Ralph Day	Danny Sullivan Group
Jo Stubbs	Danny Sullivan Group
Andrew Walker	Sir Robert McAlpine
Pete	Stevens
Jasdeep Singh	Fortel Group
Andy Sinclair	Sir Robert McAlpine
Josh Smith	Omnis Highways Ltd
Sophie Lynden	Westgate Tyres
Marcin Kozlowski	M Group
Phil Flicker	Core Highways
Peter Klein	Educated Change
Lacey Martin	Connect plus service
Clive Hemmings	ORCE - Octavius
John Milbank	Bennetts BikeSocial
Adrian Harris	SWARCO
Colin Quantrill	SWARCO
Barry foster	TM
Gary Hawkins	Cadent Gas
Anthony Quinn	Go Traffic Management

These are the nominees for the main Heroes Awards with those shortlisted for the special recognition awards to be announced in due course

Whether its saving someone from danger or risk of injury, helping a member of the public to safety, or supporting a team member in the face of abuse the highways heroes’ awards recognise individuals who have coped admirably in the face of adversity, to recognise their heroic actions.

The individuals who have been shortlisted will now all receive a personal invitation to attend the gala evening which is taking place at London Hilton, Park Lane on 26th November 2025, the awards will not only recognise those who have gone above and beyond their duty, but also those that have helped someone or improved a situation, either in the communities they work in or to unconditionally support fellow workers in their team.