PRESTWICH Heys had a productive meeting with the Football Association, in a bid to improve facilities at Sandgate Road.

Manager Adie Moran and coach John Hunter held talks with Mike Appleby, the FA's funding officer, in London.

Moran said: "We will need the support of the local community and Bury Council if we are to achieve our goals.

"The meeting went very well with regards to securing funding, but if we want to get promotion to the North West Counties League we have to have floodlights by the end of the season."

For this planning permission would be needed, and the project could cost £35,000, of which the club would have to find half .