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This year do you feel like Stoke City Football Club has helped you out? Promotion to the Premier League may well have put a smile on your face, but did you know the football club has been helping young people across the city all year round?

BBC Radio Stoke is taking a look at the problem of teenage drop-outs – young people leaving school or college early and not working, or going into any other form of training or education.  The Government call them NEETs and it's a big problem in Stoke-on-Trent.

Getting these young people up off the sofa can be a difficult task, but Mick Tucker reports on how the newly promoted football club has been trying to tackle the problem...