Lifeline for youth football club

The team's plight was featured on the BBC's Panorama programme

A community football club for disadvantaged children whose future was put at risk by a funding cut, has been offered a grant by the Prince's Trust.

The Barton and Tredworth team, in Gloucester, feared it would fold when a supermarket withdrew sponsorship.

But when its plight was featured on the BBC's Panorama programme on Thursday, the trust came forward to help.

The amount of funding has not yet been decided but team coach Karl Williams said the offer was "fantastic".

The club was set up in the summer for 14 to 18-year-olds, many of whom are from ethnic minorities.

It has to pay £350 for changing rooms and a pitch for a season, £20 per week for a match official and further expenses for minibuses, kit and evening training facilities.

Asha Vijandran from the Prince's Trust said: "It's very much within our eligibility of working with young people that maybe haven't achieved their GCSEs, or are a bit bored, haven't got much to do, maybe been in trouble with the law, so very much within the target groups of who the Prince's Trust supports."