SocEnv Awards

Nominations for the 2025 edition of the SocEnv Awards have now closed.

Designed to recognise those outstanding individuals who have innovated, inspired, and have gone beyond what’s expected in their recent work to protect, preserve, or enhance the environment, there are two prestigious awards open for nominations: 

• Rising Star award – Nominee should be currently registered as a Chartered Environmentalist, Registered Environmental Practitioner or Registered Environmental Technician and be working in their career less than 10 years.

• Environmental Professional of the Year – Nominee should be currently registered as a Chartered Environmentalist, Registered Environmental Practitioner or Registered Environmental Technician.

Submit a nomination for free

Nominees for both awards must be registered as a CEnv, REnvP or REnvTech. However, nominations can be submitted by anyone, including self-nominations. 

To nominate an outstanding environmental professional, please complete and submit a nomination on our Zealous platform linked below. 

The nomination forms request details of the nominee’s (or your) commitment to professional practice, major achievements and how their recent work has made a real difference to protecting, preserving, or enhancing the environment and advancing the principles of sustainability in the last year.  

Nominees will be judged on the extent to which they have made a difference while demonstrating an outstanding record in the four main competences across each registration, as well as a fifth criteria that underlines exceptional outcomes: 

1. Application of knowledge 
2. Leadership 
3. Effective communication 
4. Personal commitment 
5. Exceptional outcomes. 

Zealous nomination pages:

There are two awards so please ensure you click on the right one for your nomination: 

Environmental Professional of the Year – nominee should be registered as a CEnv, REnvP or REnvTech 

Rising Star – nominee must be registered as a CEnv, REnvP or REnvTech and in the early stage of their career [0-10 years]. 

Video Nominations

SocEnv is committed to being an inclusive organisation. You can submit your application in a video to make our application process easier and more accessible. 

Video requirements: 

• This video must be a talking head style video and should NOT be professionally produced. 

• You must submit one video per application question; therefore, we will expect to see five videos in your submission. 

• Video answers should be a maximum of two minutes per question (application questions are outlined in the section below). 
• Title each video with the specific question being answered. 

Support

If you experience difficulties in completing either a written or video nomination and/or require adjustments for accessibility, please email [email protected] 

Past winners from the SocEnv Awards:

Chartered Environmentalist of the Year:

2013 Professor David Stubbs CEnv, the Head of Sustainability for the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games 

2014 Professor Martin Bigg CEnv 

2015 Dr Lucinda Gilfoyle CEnv, Catchment and Coastal Strategy Manager at Anglian water 

Environmental Professional of the Year:

2017 Phillippa Pearson CEnv, Catchment Manager at Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water 

• Elaine McFarlane – Highly commended finalist 
• Graham Powell – Highly commended finalist 

2018 Graham Powell CEnv, CHP (Combined Heat and Power) Manager at Anglian Water 

• James Peacock CEnv – Runner up 
• Gemma Williams REnvTech – Highly commended finalist 
• David Hampton CEnv – Highly commended finalist 
• Mark Gallagher CEnv – Highly commended finalist. 

2019 Jerome Baddley CEnv, Head of Unit – the National Sustainable Development Unit for the NHS, Public Health and Social Care at the NHS and Public Health England. 

• Professor Carolyn Roberts CEnv – Highly commended finalist 
• Diana Pound CEnv – Highly commended finalist 

2020 Mandhy Senewiratne CEnv, Director at Fyrefly Global Sustainability Ltd 

AND David Symons CEnv, UK Director of Sustainability at WSP 

• Prof. Daniel B. Oerther CEnv – Highly commended finalist 
• Claire Wansbury CEnv – Highly commended finalist 

2021 Dan Reading CEnv, Head of Sustainability at World Sailing 

2022 Becky Toal CEnv, Managing Director at Crowberry Consulting Ltd 

2023 Claire Wansbury CEnv, Fellow and Technical Director at Atkins Ltd 

• Julie Duffus CEnv – Runner up

2024 Adrian Mill CEnv, Mangaging Director ESS and Lion Rouge 

• Zebrina Hanly CEnv – Runner up

2025 Robbie Epsom CEnv, Head of Sustainability, CBRE Investment Management AND Lukas Howell CEnv, Founder & Director, Hope Solutions

• Highly Commended Finalist – Will Arnold CEnv

Registrant Newcomer of the Year:

2020 Chris Landsburgh CEnv, Environmental & Sustainability Manager at Wills Bros Civil Engineering Ltd 

• Highly commended finalist – James Hicks CEnv, Senior Ecologist at Atkins 

2021 Lara Young CEnv, Group Carbon Manager at Costain 

• Highly commended finalist – Gemma Williams CEnv, Ecology & Biodiversity Advisor, Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water 

2022 Paul Field CEnv, Environmental & Compliance (ESG) Manager at Janus International Europe Ltd 

2023 Will Oliver CEnv, Farmer at A H Oliver and Son  

Rising Star:

2024 Abigail Hancock CEnv, Head of Environment and Sustainability, Linbrooke Services Ltd

2025 Chantelle Brandwood REnvP Director, Eco Action

• Highly Commended Finalist – Kelo Uchendu REnvP