Staffordshire Moorlands District Council is considering giving a grant to Leek Cricket Club to help them with ground maintenance.

The plans are shown on the agenda of a meeting of the council's Service Delivery Overview & Scrutiny Panel due to take place next week.

The agenda explains that the cricket club is hoping to improve its ground maintenance programme and allow older members to share their knowledge with juniors.

The cost comes to over £6,000 - but the cricket club have already raised a considerable chunk of this themselves.

The agenda states: "Leek Cricket Club has aspirations to improve their grounds maintenance programme and develop their intergenerational work within the club, through the refurbishment of an existing roller adding a push button start.

"The roller refurbishment will ensure better grounds maintenance and allow older members to share their knowledge and train the junior members to ensure future sustainability and develop a cross generational community.

"A push button start on the roller will make it much lighter and easier to work with than the existing and more suitable for the role.

"The cost to refurbish the roller is £6,650 and the club have raised £2,650 towards this project. It is requested that a £4,000 funding contribution from the outdoor sports capital budget be made towards this project."

The plans will be considered at a meeting of the council due to take place on Wednesday next week.