Friends and family are staging a day-long football tournament in memory of a 16-year-old boy who died in a crash.

Joshua Skinner was riding his moped home when he was hit by a car on the A27 Shoreham flyover on October 10 last year.

His best friend Laurence Sadler, 17, helped organise the tournament and persuaded colleagues at McDonald's in Holmbush, Shoreham, where they both worked, to play.

Southwick Football Club has lent its grounds at Old Barn Way, Southwick, for the day and firefighters from Hove Fire Station have agreed to form a team.

There will be a balloon race, a raffle, an auction and fund-raising events at the club's bar.

The tournament is being held on April 30, which would have been Joshua's 17th birthday. At the end of the day, 17 balloons will be released.

Chris Ellison, better known as DI Burnside from ITV's The Bill, has already agreed to attend the event.

Joshua's mother Paula, 43, of White Styles Road, Sompting, said: "The number of people coming forward and wanting to help has been overwhelming."

The family has set up The Joshua Skinner Memorial Fund to raise money for sports and theatrical equipment at the schools he attended.

Mrs Skinner hopes to raise money to pay for a stage at White Styles Middle School, where Joshua acted in the musicals Annie and Bugsy Malone. She also plans to donate money to Chichester College, Chichester, to pay for a basketball practice net to be installed.

The college is planning to hold a black-tie graduation ceremony this year, where the most-improved student will receive a cup bearing Joshua's name.

Mrs Skinner said: "If we can provide the facilities that Joshua wasn't able to have when he was at school then it will be great."

Several companies have already donated prizes for the raffle but organisers are hoping for more donations.

The tournament will start at noon on Sunday, April 30, at Southwick Football Club, Old Barn Way, Southwick. Admission will cost £1.50.