Finishing with a flourish! Garrard and Coker claims April awards

It’s time to introduce you to the final monthly award winners of an absorbing Enterprise National League season.

An incredible campaign has come to a close, but there’s still time to recognise those who brought the curtain down on 2025/26 with style in April.

Luke Garrard takes the Manager of the Month prize following a fantastic four weeks, which say his put

Boreham Wood on the road to Wembley.

Having home Eliminator advantage really helped, and the club saw off Forest Green Rovers to cap a fantastic month, before they went to Carlisle United and silenced almost 14,000 fans.

Convincing wins over Wealdstone, Hartlepool United, Morecambe and Sutton United meant they went into the play-offs with form behind them, even if they did lose heavily to Solihull Moors in between.

Our select panel, made up of Aaron Mclean (DAZN), Matt Badcock (The Non-League Paper) and Tom Scott (National League) decided it should be Garrard over fellow strong-finishers Stuart Maynard, Mark Hughes and Kevin Maher.

The Southend United manager didn’t quite do enough to be honoured in April, but his midfielder Oli Coker certainly did.

The 23-year-old scoops the Player of the Month accolade after finishing the season with a flourish.

He became someone to rely on as the Shrimpers booked another play-off berth with five fantastic victories. Coker really did his bit as he hit three goals and chipped in with two assists as the club cast aside a super-busy end of season schedule to cruise into the top seven.

It ultimately wasn’t quite enough for promotion as they fell at the Eliminator hurdle at Scunthorpe United, but they didn’t end empty handed - lifting the FA Trophy on Sunday in front of 22,000 of their supporters.

Coker got the nod over title winning goalscorer Josh Stones, Stefan Mols at Tamworth and Woking’s Mr Reliable Harry Beautyman.

Congratulations to Luke and to Oli!