A campaign to collect old football boots for disadvantaged children has kicked off at a Guiseley pub.

Project Fair Play aims to recycle unwanted boots to give to charity.

Sports-mad pub The Station is asking people to donate boots to help children in the UK and South Africa.

Last year the pub collected hundreds of football shirts.

The pub’s marketing executive Olly Jakes said: “Kids grow up at a rate of knots and footie boots are replaced all the time. We hope everyone will get behind Project Fair Play and put their old boots to good use.”

Boots will be sorted and cleaned by the pub teams. The best boots will be given to the UK’s leading children’s sport charity, the Youth Sport Trust, for their local sports projects.

Some of the boots will be taken to children in Cape Town and Johannes-burg townships via the Happy Africa Foundation. Olly said: “When we visited the projects in South Africa last year, the kids’ passion for football was incredible.”

Any left-over boots will be recycled by BCR Textiles who pay £1 per kilo to the Youth Sport Trust charity.

Boots can be dropped off at the pub, in Otley Road, until Thursday, June 30.