A football club and one of its teenage volunteer coaches have won awards for their community work.

Oakworth Juniors has landed the Charter Standard Community Club of the Year for its wide-ranging work with local children.

Hollie Rowley, 19, who took on coaching when she could no longer play, has won the Young Volunteer of the Year award.

Both awards to the club – based on the Bronte playing fields – have been given by the West Riding County Football Association.

The club will be put forward to the Yorkshire and North East regional awards for an overall regional winner to be selected.

Hollie has been a member of Oakworth Juniors for more than 10 years.

When she reached 15 she was left with no team, so she began helping as a junior coach.

At 16 she passed her Football Association level 1 coaching certificate and began a BTEC football development and coaching course at Shipley College. Now at university in Leeds, she has coached one age group for three years and has taken her team into the under-eights league this season.

Hollie is also part of the FA’s Female Mentoring Scheme, serves on the management team at the county FA and is a young leader on Oakworth Juniors’ Step into Sport programme.

Club secretary Richard Hewitt said Hollie was a valuable member of the coaching team. “She is happy and bubbly and the kids love her,” he said. “We are really proud of her achievements.”

Club spokesman Marie Rowley said this was the second time Oakworth Juniors had won the Community Club award “It is reward for all the fantastic hard work the coaches and other volunteers carry out,” she said.

“With the club being so pro-active in the local community, our numbers continue to grow and the future of the club has never looked better.”

Among the club’s recent community activities has been coaching initiatives with local schools.

One with Bradford City encouraged more young players into the club and the other with the County FA targeted primary school girls.

Marie said: “We are one of only two clubs in the north of England running a Step into Sport programme for young people. They are involved in coaching, refereeing, administration and other volunteer projects.

“Our new Bumble Bees group for nursery children is proving to be a great success with almost 30 children attending three sessions on Wednesdays.”