WARRINGTON Wolves' pioneering work has been recognised through a Super League community award.

The club was rewarded at the Tetley's Bitter Super League marketing awards dinner staged at The Willows, Salford.

Adam Jude, the Wolves' chief operations officer, is delighted.

He said: "The Wolves' community programme is the flagship programme for the sport and the award is reward for the hard work that the players and staff have put in.

"And we would not have been able to have achieved what has been achieved without the involvement of Warrington Borough Council, Manweb and Sportsmatch."

The Wolves' community programme during the year has seen education links with infants through to adults, including a world sport first with the club's degree launch linked in with Warrington Collegiate Institute and a British sport first with the schools' scholarship at William Beamont.

The year also brought to Wilderspool Estelle Morris, the Government minister for school standards, to Wilderspool to open Wolfie's Learning Den; Sue Campbell, the chief executive for Youth Sport Trust, to launch the Wolves' very own Tail Tag rugby game; plus Trevor Brooking, chairman of Sport England, to kick-start the club's Lifelong Learning programme.

During the year Warrington Wolves players have made more than 1,000 appearances at various events around the town and also more than £300,000 has been raised for charity.

Many of the schemes have been the brainchild of Jude and the borough's Rugby League development officer Neil Kelly.

Jude said: "We have a good friendship going back to our playing days with Woolston Rovers.

"We just live and breathe the game and the town and we want our home town team to succeed.

"We're very ambitious in our work and want to be the best in what we do and hopefully this will reflect on the Wolves and the town.

"But there are a lot of people who work hard to make it all happen and now the rewards are showing."