Oldham Council have partnered with the Manchester Football Association to secure a £301,288 grant from the Football Foundation for Chadderton Football Club as they seek to build the amateur game.

Bobby Denning, who has held his position since October 2013 and has worked for the LCB in various roles for 14 years, accepts that cricket faces serious challenges to arrest decreasing levels of participation.

Bolton’s Labour MP David Crausby has expressed concern over the Government’s half-hearted response to his grassroots football e-petition, which is trying to change the way children’s football is funded

Manchester, along with Nottingham and Portsmouth, has been shortlisted from 22 applications with the winner receiving £1.6million of National Lottery funding over two years.

Manchester’s Soccer ProFormance Academy is on the lookout for the next Class of ‘92 as they hold free trials for promising young footballers at their Whitefield centre in Bury this August.

Women’s football is making progress in the city – but more needs to be done to prolong girls’ interest in the sport, says FC United of Manchester Women’s manager Lee Sutton.

A campaign to get the Premier League to put more money into grass roots football setup by a Bolton MP has received backing from a new local football team.

A new proposal that could mean the Premier League is taxed to fund grass roots football has been welcomed by the MP for Bolton North East.

MP David Crausby, who has represented Bolton North East since 1997, has re-launched a campaign to change the way grassroots football is funded.