WOOLSTON Rovers have been awarded a grant of nearly £1,000 from the National Lottery.

The community rugby league club has been awarded a total of £9,615 from the Big Lottery Fund, with the money set to be used to improve the changing rooms and shower facilities at Rovers’ Monk Sports Club base.

Work will include constructing a new pump house to improve the water supply to showers in the changing rooms.

Dave Whalley from Woolston Rovers said: “We are incredibly grateful to the National Lottery and the Big Lottery Fund for giving us this grant, and the work has already started on the improvements that will benefit all teams who use our facilities now and in the future.

“This was a time consuming project to get the application submitted, and we are delighted to all the hard work put into this has been reward – with special thanks going to Warrington Voluntary Action, who assisted us with the application.”