WARRINGTON Town are aiming to use the cash generated by an historic FA Cup run to help them reach the Conference North in two seasons.

The journey to the competition’s second round was worth £190,000 to the Yellows and will help sustain the club for the next five years.

Chairman Toby Macormac plans to reinvest the profit into the club, including improvements to the ground and community project with Premier League side Everton.

However, Macormac will start with raising the playing budget by 10 per cent to ensure Town mount a promotion challenge this season.

“That will sustain the club now for a good four or five years,” he said. “It will give us the capacity to build a competitive budget.

“It will help us compete for this year and the one after. We’re aiming for the Conference North in two seasons.”

Town have already invested in two new strikers, Lee Gaskell and Steven Tames, but the recent injection does not put them among the Evo-Stik Northern Premier League First Division North’s top spenders.

“We’ll still be on half the budget of the likes of Salford with the Class of 92, while Darlington take £1,000 a home game,” explained Macormac.

“It’s competitive enough to get us into the play-offs area. If we have to, we can make final alterations around March or April as the play-offs are a real tough ask.

“But the intention is to go up again if we get promoted. We’ve seen sides go on and get double promotions from this league.”

Macormac sees Fleetwood Town as an example of how reaching the Conference, and ultimately Football League, is attainable.

“We’ve got a really good relationship with Fleetwood and, although Andy Pilley gave them the financial strength, they’re a town that’s got 30,000 people in it,” he added.

“In the Conference there are seasoned teams like Forest Green, with a £750,000 playing budget, and ex-Football League teams like Wrexham.

“We’re hoping by then that we possibly could be in a different venue and have lots of bigger sponsors.”

The chairman is even not ruling out overseas investors: “We did a piece with Al-Jazeera TV and they openly encouraged us to mention about overseas investors, that’s how Venky’s at Blackburn came out.”

First, Town will improve their current base at Cantilever Park as well as scouting local talent alongside the Toffees.

“The main things are looking to improve the sponsors lounge and put a balcony around the lounge upstairs,” added Macormac.

“With the community project, we’ve completed the first 10 schools and sat down with Everton to target another 10. We’ve got one of our guys and two from Everton.

“Players get spotted in coaching sessions and go into an ‘all in’ session at the ground. The best go to Everton’s Finch Farm and have a chance to get involved with a Premier League club.”