BORO full-backs Andrew Taylor and Luke Young turned game show captains when they visited the club's Football First scheme.

The stars led teams of young people in Boro versions of the popular TV game shows, The Price is Right and Ready Steady Cook.

They were also challenged to guide one another blindfolded through an obstacle course in the ultimate test of teamwork.

Based in the Herlingshaw Education Centre in Eston, Middlesbrough, Football First uses football to promote positive lifestyle message to young people.

Using the badge of Middlesbrough FC as its vanguard and the club's players and staff as an inspiration to students, Boro's Football First scheme delivers 'Entry to Employment' learning on behalf of the Tees Valley Learning and Skills Council to re-engage young people from the Middlesbrough, Stockton and Redcar areas.

Football First's Entry to Employment course inspires those not previously in employment, education or training by improving their literacy and numeracy skills, raising their self-esteem and improving their health and fitness.

The impressive £220,000 Herlingshaw Centre was opened by Jim Murphy MP, Minister of State for Work and Welfare Reform, in May this year thanks to backing from One NorthEast through the Tees Valley Partnership and with capital from the government's Single programme.

The facility includes Middlesbrough FC themed classrooms. The centre's health suite is named after the singing end in Boro's old Ayresome Park ground, The Holgate End, while the literacy and numeracy classroom is called Ayresome Park. The IT room is known as The Gibson Suite after the Boro chairman.

Middlesbrough Football Club in the Community's partners in the Herlingshaw Education Centre are Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council and the local primary care trusts.

?The Premier League is donating £1m to charities and good causes throughout the country via the Creating Chances initiative. Middlesbrough Football Club chose 25 good causes to receive £2,000 each, while players are making personal appearances in support of eight different causes over a three-week period.

During late September and early October, Boro players will make further Creating Chances community appearances for Abbey Hill Special School in Stockton, Safer Middlesbrough Partnership, the Carers' Resource Centre in Harrogate and another of Boro's own education schemes, Heading for Health.

Causes receiving £2,000 were Butterwick Children's Hospice, Teesside Hospice, Barnardos SECOS, The Clarke Lister Appeal, Cardiac Risk in the Young, Daisy Chain Project, Eston Labour Club (for the Great North Air Ambulance), Grangetown Netball, Holistic Cancer Care, Macmillan, Middlesbrough Disabled Supporters Association, Middlesbrough Live at Home Scheme, Mike Findley MND Fund, Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre, North Yorkshire Crimebeat, Samaritans, Sea Cadets, St Michael's School, Billingham (for Help the Aged), The Twe12th Man, Whale Hill Community Association, York & District MIND, Zoe's Place.