CELEBRITIES will be putting their best foot forward for an All Stars Charity football match.

Coronation Street, Hollyoaks and Emmerdale stars will be going head to head with RM Rovers Football Club to raise money for three charitable causes.

The match, to be held at Atherton Collieries on July 18, is in aid of Joining Jack charity, The Christie Proton Beam Therapy Appeal and Guys Appeal.

After the match, which kicks off at 2pm, a bouncy castle, face painting and musical entertainment from swing singer Scott Westwood, band The Inner Light and music by DJs Adam Guy and Dave Fash.

The Joining Jack charity funds and promotes research into the study and cure of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, while the Christie Proton Beam Therapy Appeal is for £5.6 million to develop a research space within the new Proton Beam Therapy Centre.

The cost of the research space falls outside Department of Health funding and the new Proton Beam Therapy Centre will mean children will no longer have to travel to America for treatment.

Guy Ryan from Astley, who will also benefit from the match proceeds, will travel to America next month for proton therapy following a five-year struggle with a brain tumour.

The money raised will allow Guy's family to stay with him while he is in America for nine weeks of treatment.

Fundraiser Karen Trenbath said: "I have raise a lot of money in the past for The Christie and Wigan and Leigh Hospice.

"At the beginning of the year I was talking about charity events at work and someone said 'you haven't done a charity football match', so that's how it started off.

"I have always done something for The Christie after my dad was diagnosed with cancer and they are the reason that he is fine today but I had seen recently a lot of media coverage about proton therapy and I heard of Guy and that he needed the treatment.

"If I can help any local charities I will do.

"I'm just hoping and praying now that people will get involved and come down on the day and that the weather will be nice to us."