Didcot Town boss Stuart Peace will be able to strengthen his squad for a fresh promotion push from the Hellenic League with money netted from their successful FA Vase campaign.

The Railwaymen secured around £40,000 in prize money from their cup run, and chairman John Bailey has pledged to invest some of this in the playing budget.

Bailey revealed Didcot had won around £25,000 by reaching the final at White Hart Lane and a further £15,000 by lifting the trophy, but said there are a lot of expenses to deduct.

He said: "We will be sitting down with Stuart in the next couple of weeks to see where he wants to go.

"He deserves all the accolades that are coming his way."

He added: "Obviously he would like to increase his squad for next year.

"With our cup run, we played 14 games more than Highworth (champions) this year.

"We were playing three games a week for probably three weeks at the end.

"If we had a bigger squad, then maybe we could have finished a few points higher and got promotion."

The club shelled out on new suits and kit for the players and put them up in the England team hotel, Waltham Abbey, before Saturday's final.

This and travel costs will take up a fair part of the prize money, but Bailey hopes there will also be extra revenue from increased gates at Loop Meadow.

Home gates for the Railwaymen averaged out around 250 in 2004/05, and Bailey believes the Vase victory and some enticing pre-season friendlies could raise the figure by 100.

Bailey said: "The boys performed so well in the final and so many people got to see them. If we can get 400 or 500 to watch us at home, it would be excellent.

"We are probably one of the best supported non-league sides in Oxfordshire and the Vase win can only boost us."

Home pre-season friendlies include games with Reading, 2004 FA Vase winners Winchester City and, hopefully, Oxford United.

Bailey said: "There were a lot of Oxford United and Reading supporters at the final. Hopefully we can convert some of them."