DUPDS on the SU Annual Awards
Wednesday 28-03-2018 - 10:00
With nominations open for next year’s Annual Awards, we spoke to Henry Gould from Durham University Pole Dancing Society about winning one of last year’s awards.
Name of Society: Durham University Pole Dancing Society
Award: Most improved society
What was the best thing about last year’s Annual Awards Night?
I can’t single it down to just one thing, but being there with the whole of the exec team celebrating how far we have come as a society was just magical. It was also great fun to have the Quaddies playing the night out.
What are you most proud of achieving that the award recognises?
Our society has struggled to gain widespread appeal throughout the University for a number of reasons: the inaccessibility of the classes, the stigma of pole dancing as a sport and just general lack of members. But what makes me so proud is that we worked together to move our classes to the SU, put on events throughout the year for our members, performed at college events and have expanded our society from about 30 to over 100 members.
Why would you encourage people to nominate someone for an award?
Everyone who does work with a society or the SU wants to give back to students. Nominating a society or a person for an award not only shows how much their work has been valued by you, but by the society as a whole. It meant the world to us as an exec to know that the students appreciated the society and spurred us on to bigger and better things, and to keep improving the society.
Know a society or individual who has done something award-worthy this term? You can nominate them for one of this year’s awards here. Nominations close 29 April.
