A FORMER team mate of Georgina Callander, a victim of the Manchester bombing, is competing in the Miss Bolton and Bury competition in her honour.

Sophie Barclay, aged 18, played for the Bolton Wanderers under 11 ladies team with Georgina in 2010.

Miss Barclay, of Arnesby Grove, Bolton said: "This will be my fourth competition. I have never really placed but this time I’m doing it for a lot better reason.

"I played football with her and I’m doing this because she will never be able to do anything like that."

When the news of Georgina's death was announced the club released a statement, saying: "Bolton Wanderers Football Club is shocked to hear that Georgina Callander has been the first victim named in the horrific attack at Manchester Arena.

Georgina played in the club's Under-11s ladies team in 2010 under the management of Jayne Jackson, who still works at Bolton Wanderers Community Trust.

Our thoughts and prayers are with her friends and family during this awful time of loss."

Miss Barclay is competing in the final of the Miss Bolton and Bury at the Last Drop Village Hotel in August.

As part of the competition Miss Barclay is hoping to raise more than £600 for Variety, a children's charity for the disadvantaged the Miss England competition supports and for the We Love Manchester Emergency Fund.

The charity is close to Miss Barclay's heart as it supports the Bolton COG nursery, which was a great help to her family when her brother Dylan, now eight, was growing up.

She is taking part in a fire walk, organising a charity ladies night, her boyfriend is joining in too and getting his legs waxed for the cause too.

Lyn Staunton, Northwest Development Director at Variety, said: "All the contestants have been amazing raising funds for sick, disabled and disadvantaged children in our region."

She said: "I’m going to university and this will probably be my last one. I would encourage people to do it. It’s great for self esteem."

Miss Barclay is studying a sports diploma at Bolton Wanderers Free School and is the only girl in her year.

She said: "Without the competition I don’t think I could have been the only girl at college, it would be quite intimidating I don’t think I would have had the courage."