PLAYTIME has been extended for a group of toddlers at an Oxford parent club after it was given cash to keep running.

Wood Farm Parent and Toddler Group has been awarded £2,500 from the Oxfordshire Community Foundation.

The parent-and-toddler group no longer receives National Lottery funding and is still looking to secure a regular income.

About 20 parents and children, from babies to five years old, attend four sessions a week at the community centre in Titup Hall Drive.

Group co-ordinator Belinda House said: "This money is fantastic news and will keep us going until the end of March, when we hope to have something more permanent in place.

"Our Lottery funding ran out a year last October and we have been getting small bits from here, there and everywhere.

"Four years ago the group moved from Wood Farm Primary School to the community centre.

"The community centre said it would keep us going, but we do not want to draw money away from it.

"We get parents from Wheatley, Risinghurst, Cowley, Marston and even Kidlington."

Katy Measey, from Wood Farm Road, brought her daughters Sophie Greenslade, two, and Chloe Greenslade, eight, to the group.

She said: "I have been coming here for years and it is just such a nice place to be.

"Everyone is so friendly and it is the only place like this around here."

Marisa Corbett, from Chillingworth Crescent, Wood Farm, said she and her daughters Lily, two, and Tayah, three months, said: "I didn't know anyone when I first came here and now we are like a big family."