Maidenhead United’s Tanya Davis-Hussain is up for a Berkshire Football Award in the category of Volunteer of the Season sponsored by Shorts Group.
The nomination we received for this award said: “A Maidonian by birth, Tanya has contributed and continues to contribute towards youth and women’s football in Maidenhead. Having previously been involved with the Maidenhead Boys and Girls committee for many years, Tanya is now Treasurer at Maidenhead United Juniors. Aside from keeping her watchful eye on the accounts, Tanya has also taken responsibility for the mammoth task of coordinating kit for over 600 players and equipment for more than 50 teams. Tanya is also treasurer for Maidenhead United Women and a trustee of the club’s Community Trust. Since becoming involved with MUWFC, Tanya has worked tirelessly in the recruitment of coaching staff, secured sponsorship deals and lobbied successfully for improved match-day experiences for Maidenhead United’s female players. It is no exaggeration to say that without Tanya’s tenacity and commitment, Maidenhead United may not have had a women’s team to compete in the 2022/23 season at all never mind one which has enjoyed a remarkable second half of the season to secure its FA Women’s National League status. When not working tirelessly in youth football and in women’s football – whilst also juggling a football-mad family of boys – Tanya also coordinates the provision of match day entertainment for children on a York Road home game, also arranging for young mascots to have the opportunity to tread the hallowed turf and meet their heroes. Modest Tanya is quite simply irreplaceable and she is an example to all non-league volunteers in terms of proving what can be achieved with dedication and hard work. Youth and women’s football at Maidenhead United looks bright thanks to Tanya’s continuing involvement.”
Agree that Tanya should be up for the Volunteer award? Or do you have someone else in mind? Let us know in the nomination form below:
Berkshire Football Awards news
Nominations open:
- Match Day Experience
- Supporter of the Season
- Grounds Team of the Season
- Clive McNelly Volunteer of the Season
- Best Photographer
- Goal of the Season
- Best Website
- Best Content Creator
- Best Individual Event of the Season
- Football Writer of the Season
- Physio of the Season
- Manager of the Season (Women’s Game)
- Manager of the Season (Men’s Game)
- Referee of the Season
- Young Player of the Season (Female)
- Young Player of the Season (Male)
- Player of the Season (Female)
- Player of the Season (Male)
- The Darrell Freeland Award for Service to the Local Game
Yes! The awards are taking place at the marvellous Double-Barrelled Brewery in Reading and we’ll have food available. Tickets will be limited but on sale from 28th May. If you’d like to know when, so you don’t miss out, make sure you’ve signed up to our email newsletter here.
Scroll down to the bottom of this article for the nomination form. Before you do that though, here’s what the judging panel are looking for when choosing the shortlist.
What’s the story? Tell us exactly why the person or place should be considered. We hate to get all ‘X Factor journey’ on you but the more detail you can include, the better we can argue for your nominee for the short list.
The sort of details we love to see include things like player awards, goals, clean sheets and any other significant contributions to the footballing community – obviously within the 2024/25 season.
We’ll publish all the nominees for the Berkshire Football Awards as we receive them.
You can view all the 2025 nominees so far here.
Want to know who’s previously won what at the Berkshire Football Awards? There’s a big long page with all the previous winners here.
Nominations will be open until midday on Monday 26th May 2025.
The Long List will be published on Wednesday 28th May and the Short List on Friday 30th May.
Once the nomination window has closed, the nominations in each category will be put before a panel of judges for a decision, the top four announced online and the winners at the awards night on Wednesday 18th June.
We will accept nominations for people out of area, the only prerequisite is that the reason for nomination is that it must be because of an affiliation with a club we cover on Football in Berkshire (a full list is at the bottom of this page). We will present certificates and a trophy to the winners.
- All nominations are done by you, the Berkshire footballing public
- You can nominate as many people as you like for each award – the quantity of nominations counts for the judging panel..
- That said, quality is just as important, the more detail you provide about why you are nominating, the better
- Please try and avoid nominating your own family members
- Due to difficulties in obtaining permissions under child protection laws we won’t consider any player under the age of 16 for nomination in any of the categories
Nomination Form
Nominations for the 2025 Berkshire Football Awards are now closed!
What’s next? Look out for the Long List of all the nominations which will be published here and across all our channels by midday on Wednesday 28th May 2025.
The Short List for each category will then be published at 2pm on Friday 30th May 2025. At that point, tickets will be made available to attend the awards night at Double-Barrelled Brewery in Reading on the evening of Wednesday 18th June 2025. If you’d like notification of when tickets are available, sign up to our newsletter here.
