BELMONT Wanderers raised more than £1,000 for their club after holding an awards day.

The Hereford-based club played various friendlies throughout the day involving both boys and girls before a match took place between coaches and parents.

Belmont now have 11 teams from Under-7 to Under-17 level, as well as a ladies team, with around 120 members now on board.

Each team received certificates, medals or trophies, with the Under-12 girls handed an award by Grenville Hague, a director at Herefordshire Housing.

A raffle was also held, with contributions from Burghill Valley Golf Club, Ask Italian, The Hibiscus Room, Hereford FC, Halo Leisure, The Beefy Boys, Westons Cider, Hereford Courtyard, Dick Whittington Farm Park, B&Q, Nandos, Blacks, Tesco, The Black Lion, Halfords, Pizza Express, Stagecoach, Frankie & Bennys, Maplin, Henryka, The Body Shop, Sports Direct, Ambience, Wye Valley, Chave & Jackson, Gilbies, The Venue, Chimichanga, John McKellar, Majestic Wine and Tyrrels.

"The community feeling at the awards day was brilliant, we had people from all over the place coming to help out and enjoy the activities," said Belmont Wanderers spokesman Chris Tipping.

"It's great to have a new club developing quickly and we wouldn't be able to do it without all the parents, volunteers, coaches and most of all the children.

"I hold a massive sense of pride that for a few nights a week and the weekends, the fields the council no longer wanted at Newton Farm turn into a vibrate football club.

"We are making use of land that would have been left to just grow and become wasted.

"To take on the land and maintain it has been a big experience, it's now paying back dividends when you see the kids playing with massive smiles on their faces."