Brentford have won the CSI Sports Community Club of the Year Award for League 2 at the 2009 Football League Awards incorporating FourFourTwo's Top 50 Football League Players.

The club received the award at a gala dinner at Grosvenor House, Park Lane on Sunday evening in front of more than 800 attendees from clubs, sponsors and the football industry.

Brentford's Community Sports Trust now reaches more than 100 schools and 40 housing estates, working with over 30 partners in the public, private and voluntary sectors to offer 5000 sports sessions across 10 sports for 2008. A total of 28 full time, and a further 22 part time, staff are dedicated to specific projects within the Trust which focus on the four key Football League objectives for community development; Sports Participation, Social Inclusion, Education and Health. Alongside the Trust's wide ranging activity that includes initiatives such as KICKZ, Bee Educated, Bee Healthy, and the new Brentford Boating Arch, their key achievement in 2008 has been the growth of their disability programme. The Trust secured significant new funding for this programme and has taken on a full-time Disability Officer to run a whole range of new and enhanced disability activity.

Liz Lowe, Citizenship Manager at Coca-Cola and judge in this category commented that Brentford offered "an amazing broad range of activities with a strong focus on disability programmes. The new Boating Centre is a real asset, right up there with the best."