Blackburn Rovers Community Trust is helping unemployed football-mad young people to ‘get started' and achieve their goals.

Rovers teamed up with youth charity The Prince's Trust for the ‘Get Started with Football' scheme, which provides youngsters - who are not in education, employment or training - with their first steps onto the coaching ladder.

The five-day football programme gives young people the opportunity to achieve the FA Junior Football Organisers certificate and FA Emergency First Aid qualification. The group also participated in workshops that help to raise awareness of child protection, sexual health and issues relating to drug and alcohol misuse.

The highlight of the week was a small-sided football match against Myerscough College, who run a Football Studies course at the club's Indoor Centre.

Claire Newton, Active Communities Officer at Rovers' Community Trust, said: "It was a really productive and rewarding week for everyone involved.

"As a Premier League club, we are able to use the power of football as an incentive to engage young people onto courses and workshops with the aim of helping them gain experience, confidence and qualifications which will help them to secure employment within the sport and leisure industry."