Sheffield Wednesday's Community Programme has joined forces with new initiative Soccer Sisters in a bid to increase the number of girls playing football in the region.

The scheme offers football coaching sessions for girls of all abilities between the ages of six and 14, with all participants receiving a free Soccer Sisters' kit just for taking part.

Sheffield Wednesday is now working with the group and providing a venue and fully-qualified staff to help deliver the girls' coaching sessions.

The club's community manager Marcus Brameld said: "I am delighted that we have been given the opportunity to work with Soccer Sisters to encourage more girls to get involved in football and to begin reducing the gap between girls and boys within the game."

Soccer Sisters have already delivered a number of joint sessions with the club's Community Programme as part of Hallam FM's Talent Academy at Meadowhall and are now getting involved in the SWFC Soccer Camps at the Middlewood Road Training Ground.

Soccer Sisters co-ordinator Beth Green said: "From my own experience girls in school don't get the same opportunities to get involved in football as boys, therefore Soccer Sisters is offering coaching in a bid to improve girls' skills and get them on a level playing field with the boys."