A football club has pledged to continue support a Rhyl food bank, despite plans to part ways early next year.

The King’s Storehouse food bank, operated by the Wellspring Christian Centre (WCC), is currently based in a shipping container at Rhyl Football Club on Grange road, are currently due to return the unit to the team at the end of January when the church moves to a new site on Vale Road..

A spokesman for Rhyl Football Club said: “The club's understanding is that the Foodbank are vacating the container at the end of January 2018. If there is a delay in the new premises being ready the club will allow them to remain on site until Vale Road is ready.”

The food bank has been allowed use of the shipping container - which had been unused - for the entirety of 2017, after being forced to relocate from Dyserth in late 2016 after Barry Jones, volunteer and board member at the club, read about the charity’s plight in The Journal.

Mr Jones said: “I read about the food bank needing help in the The Journal and thought it would be a great cause.

“We have lent them the use of the container for free until they manage to sort a new building.”

The football club are now looking to use the unit for their own community scheme for children from difficult backgrounds, as part of restructuring in 2018, planned in anticipation of the food bank moving to the new Wellspring Christian Centre on the current Rhyl Rugby Club ground site in the summer of next year.

Reverend Mike Bettaney, minister of WCC, said: “They’ve been really good with letting us use the football club Unfortunately, it’s hard to find another premises in such a short space of time.

Moving the charity, organised by the Wellspring Christian Centre is deemed expensive, requiring the charity to spend about £9000 - in addition to about £300,000 spent last weekend to secure the Rhyl Rugby site - on a new container suitable for purpose.

The hand over also clashes with Mr Bettaney's plans to travel Beirut in late January, to support doctors from Cairo working with Syrian refugees.

Mr Bettaney said: “There’s never really a good time to move, we'd have to make sure a new container is lined and insulated to stock food, and we have to apply for planning permission from Denbighshire County Council.

“The worry is where to store food leftover from Christmas before we find a new location.”

Mr Jones added: “We offered the facility out of the goodness of the Rhyl Football Club. I can confirm that we will continue to support the food bank if there is a delay.”