Worcester Warriors scoop top awards

Kathy Leather     Jason Leonard    Sue Pennington

Worcester Warriors are celebrating after picking up two prestigious awards at the Annual Premier Rugby Marketing Awards, held at the Compass Group Middlesex Sevens at Twickenham Saturday 13th August.

Being recognised for their outstanding achievements during their first season in the Premiership (2004/2005), Worcester Rugby was presented with the ‘Best Club Highly Commended’ and the ‘Best Club Sponsor’ for their relationship with Worcester-based energy company, npower.

Jason Leonard, the most capped player in world rugby and Premier Rugby’s Ambassador presented the ‘Best Club - Highly Commended’ award to Kathy Leather, Worcester Rugby’s Commercial Manager and Sue Pennington, Marketing Manager.  

The Best Club award is judged on the basis of overall commercial operation – including ticket sales, quality of hospitality and maintaining a professional relationship with Premier Rugby.

Kathy said: “Behind the scenes, a tremendous amount of hard work has gone into growing Worcester Rugby into a Premiership operation and I can speak for the whole team when I say we are delighted to receive this award as recognition of our efforts.”

“It makes all our hard work worthwhile to see that we are now up there with the other premiership clubs in terms of our ‘off the pitch’ performance.”

She continued: “We have built a close working relationship with our club sponsors npower during our five year partnership.  In addition to being home and away shirt sponsors, they have supported the club on a number of levels.  They have shared their in-house expertise to help us to develop our website and have sponsored our community summer camps for our ‘Warriors in the Making’.  They regularly using our facilities for meetings, seminars and conferences and have added to our match-day atmosphere by introducing a cheerleading squad and supported the new Warriors mascot – Maximus.”

Jenny Simons, spokesperson for npower commented: “We are committed to supporting things that are important to our employees and the community. We are delighted that we have received recognition of our work with our neighbours Worcester Rugby.  The team have achieved great things on and off the pitch in recent years and we are proud to be associated with them.”

For ticket sales please call 0870 990 5650 or for further information on Worcester Warriors log onto www.wrfc.co.uk .

ENDS

Amanda Chatterton

Press Officer

Worcester Warriors

01905 459307

07748 774687

amanda@wrfc.co.uk