The Union Awards, which is the Students’ Union’s annual awards ceremony, was held on Wednesday 15th June, this year. When the Union Awards nominations were announced, they included two nominations for the Leicester Sabres (Games): Best Recreational Society (up against Creative Spark, Kayak, Poker and Paintball) and Best Event for Sabrecon (up against Take Me Out, the Music Association Concert, Islamic Awareness Week, Big Band Idol and Dancesport). As such, a group of us (six ex-Presidents and one ex-President’s girlfriend) threw on our good clothes and went along to cheer.

Tony at the 2011 Union Awards.

What we weren’t expecting is to win both awards that we had been nominated for, plus another one for Best Society! This means that we won more awards than any other society this year, which is a huge achievement both for the Council on a personal level, and for the Sabres in general. In fact, it’s so huge, we got the headline on the ensuing University of Leicester press release.

We would like to give all our members a huge and heartfelt vote of thanks for all your help and support reaching this stage. The Sabres are what you make them and we couldn’t do it without you guys. Here’s hoping that we continue triumphantly for many awards ceremonies yet to come!