Meet Our 2025 Award Judges

The finalists and winners of the Lincolnshire Sport & Physical Activity Awards are chosen by an independent panel of experts from across the sport, physical activity, and health and wellbeing and education and other sectors. These passionate professionals bring their knowledge and experience to the judging process, carefully reviewing all shortlisted nominations to select the finalists - and ultimately, the winners - for each award category.

We'd like to thank all this year's judges for giving up their time to help us select the deserving winners of the 2025 Awards.

This year our judges are:

Fiona Booth
Head Teacher at St Nicholas Church of England Primary Academy, Boston who were 2023 winner of the Active School Award. Find out more about why the school won the Active School Award here.

David Bruce
Community Connector in East Lindsey

Tom Dunning
Founder of the Mental Health Runner, advocate for physical activity and mental health and 2019 LSPAA winner

Shaun Fisher
Health and Community Manager at GLL, (Better) and representing our Headline Sponsor

Dr Batul Dungarwalla
Deputy CEO at Lincolnshire Community and Voluntary Partnership

Sophie Ford
Active Lincolnshire Board member and EDI Lead

Ruby Fox
2024 winner of the LSPAA Active Achievement Award, young coach across several sports and Magna Vitae team member

Tony Knappett
Head of Diversity and Inclusion, We Do Tennis CIC, coach and wheelchair tennis player.

Dr Sunil Hindocha
Medical Director NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board and chair of the Lincoln City Foundation's trustees

Alison White
2024 finalist and Communities Team Leader at South Holland District Council