Lead nominator: Miss Joanna Resnick, BSc Biochemistry with Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, current student.
Kay has been an extremely active member of Student Community Action (SCA) since 2008, regularly supporting fundraising events and enthusiastically recruiting new members. For the last two years, Kay has been a student coordinator for ‘Jolidays’, a scheme that provides activity days and residential weekends for young carers. She is responsible for over-seeing the logistics, fundraising and publicity and also energetically engages with the young people that the scheme supports. Kay also spent a summer working with a small volunteering organisation in Uganda and has since become an ambassador for the developing project.
In addition, Kay devotes a great deal of time to the performing arts and has worked as both a producer and stage manager with many of the leading student drama societies including DramSoc, Spotlights, Music Theatre Bristol and the Stage Technicians Association.
Her nominator says: “Kay has an infectious enthusiasm for the numerous projects she is involved with, which transfers to those around her. She is a source of great generosity and inspiration.”