Kingston LGBT Award Publicity

Kingston University's lesbian and gay society wins National Union of Students award
6:50am Tuesday 12th May 2009
David Lindsell
Surrey Comet, Your Local Guardian, Croydon Guardian


Students from Kingston University’s Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Trans society (LGBT) has won a prestigious national award.

The society scooped the prize for Higher Education Society of the Year at the National Union of Students awards.

Charlie Parker, from the society, said the award recognised their transformation over the past three years from a small meeting of, predominantly gay men into a thriving, diverse, and equal society.

He said: “We’re extremely proud of the policies and practices we have utilised to encourage more women and students from black, Asian, minority ethnic and refugee communities to sign up as members.

“I believe our determination in representing these, often hard to reach, communities, won us the award.

"We were also credited for our campaign to tackle homophobia in schools, by producing leaflets that were distributed among student teachers to educate them about the problem.”