Hitchin Town Football Club have received a rent-free boost after trustees decided to give the club a fifth consecutive quarter without paying.

The Canaries received the boost from the Trustees of the Cow Commoners Trust.

Club officials were delighted at the continued support being offered by the trustees.

Managing director Andy Melvin said: ''The Cow Commoners are continuing to show that they are the perfect landlords and I cannot thank them enough for being so helpful.

"The trustees have continued to appreciate the severe financial problems the Covid pandemic has caused and have acted to help the club in the best way possible.

"I am so pleased our relationship with the trustees continues to be so positive and constructive as we look to working with the trustees to create a brighter future for the club.''

While the club received phenomenal support from the community in raising £61k last autumn during their Top Field crowdfunding appeal, the move comes gives a timely boost to the Fishponds Road outfit as lockdown bites.

With the Top Field social club still closed and with the football season having been declared null and void, all the club's income streams have been lost.

On receiving another timely financial boost from the t trustees club treasurer Roy Izzard said: "To be given yet another rent free quarter at such a difficult time is a great boost and has a really positive affect on our cash flow.

"On behalf of everyone at Hitchin Town Football Club I thank the Trustees of the Cow Commoners Trust for showing such great support over the period we have been suffering the pandemic."