Staffordshire County Council youth clubs run by volunteers
Volunteers have been stepping in to take over the running of youth clubs closed by a council as a cost-cutting measure.
Staffordshire County Council shut 33 youth clubs at the end of 2014 in a bid to save £2.8m and has said many young people did not use the services.
The plans, which were approved by the authority in March last year, were the subject of a 16,000-name petition and protests outside the council's offices.
Gerald Crooks, who lost his job as a council youth worker, has started a youth club in his local village of Tean, which he said attracts more than 30 young people every Friday.
BBC Radio Stoke's Political Reporter Phil McCann has more details.
16 Feb 2015