Struggling York charity SNAPPY closed two projects for young people with disabilities at the weekend despite a last-ditch attempt to raise funds to continue.

City of York Council donated £3,000 to the project which kept Junior and Senior SNAPPY going for an extra month. But the two projects, which offer social lives and life skills to 14 to 25-year-olds with disabilities, have now been closed, and parents of young people involved will be asked at tonight's AGM what should be done with the £5,500 raised through an appeal to the people of York. The appeal fell short of its £30,000 target, after City of York Council pledged to match fund the service by £30,000.

SNAPPY's executive officer Anne Pemberton said: "Junior and Senior SNAPPY were closed this weekend and until we can match funds, by raising £25,000 or secure long-term funding from elsewhere, they won't be coming back.

"The AGM has been planned for a long time and one of the things we'll be discussing tonight is the fact that we've managed to raise £5,500 through the appeal. We really want to put it to the AGM as to what to do with this money. It's really up to the parents of these young people. There are lots of things we could do with it. We could keep the project running for another month, but we don't really want to do that because the children have already been brought back for a month and it's very upsetting and confusing for them."

She said another option would be to run some sort of half-term or holiday activities.