One of the oldest football club's in the UK, Radstock Football Club, has sent out a practical appeal for help of any kind to push ahead with keeping the ground up to scratch.

They have put out an appeal on social media, for everything from a tin of paint, to some much needed weedkiller.

It comes as the club, along with so many others in the lower leagues, faces an uncertain future.

As we reported on Nub News here : The Miners is in an uncertain financial state.

It is not clear that unless they can raise a bare minimum of cash, that there will even be a ground to return to when play resumes.

The Club has an added headache, with years of fundraising and effort going into expanding the skittle hall at the side of the club house, a hugely important social area where the cash-starved team hoping to raise some desperately needed funds.

Now the renovation lies not even half finished, with coronavirus crushing all but the bare minimum of work.

The skittle alley work was a major fundraiser for the club and they had already invested around £5,000 in raising and supporting the roof, to build out from the existing skittle alley to make a more financially lucrative concern.

It had taken three years to get to this point, a dream spearheaded by key members of the club, Craig Boulton, Rich Bowring , Richards Sobers and Russ Beverage.

But then coronavirus stopped play - along with everything else - including the crucial renovation work.

Individual club members have been lending a hand where and when they could, working solo on bits of building work and DIY.

Club chairman Simon Wilkson told Nub News during a recent tour of the site: " Volunteers are doing what they can, when they can work on this they do, one at a time.

"This project has been going for three or four years.. So it is work in progress, but we need to get this finished. We were in full flow when coronavirus struck and now, well its so sad."

The club needs a long list of practical help including sourcing lights and a new boiler.

If you can help the club financially they have set up a Go Fund me page here:

the donation page

The Radstock first team have themselves donated £500 of their own money to the fund.

They are hoping to raise a total of £5,000 just to keep Radstock FC, known as The Miners, playing, if and when, the season resumes.