A VILLAGE pre-school with 30 children faces closure as it is about to lose its classroom.

But parents have banded together and vowed to raise £100,000 for temporary new teaching facilities.

Hartlebury Pre-school, which has been running for 37 years, will lose its classroom in September 2006 when the village first school expands and becomes a primary school.

The enlargement means the school reluctantly has to reclaim the classroom it has lent to the tots playgroup.

Thirty children aged two-and-a-half to four who are already enrolled for next year may have to find pre-schools elsewhere.

But parents in the village, near Droitwich, have formed a committee to raise £100,000 for a temporary classroom to be set up in the school grounds.

"There is nowhere the school can squeeze us in next year, and we've got 30 children already enrolled for September," said worried parent Sally Steele.

"We've got outline planning permission - but we don't have the money. We want parents to come up with ideas about how we can raise it," she explained.

Plans are afoot for a football tournament to help raise the case, but Ms Steele said anyone with more ideas, or wanted to make a donation could ring her on 01299 250512.