A theatre company for adults with disabilities is to close due to a cut in council funding.

For the past 13 years, the Oxford Libra Theatre Company has provided skills training and performance opportunities for adults aged 20 to 80.

From December 31, the company will close, and its 10 members will join the Pegasus Theatre in Magdalen Road, east Oxford.

To celebrate the work of Libra, its latest production, The Secret Forest, will be staged at Cowley Road Methodist Church in Jeune Street on December 7, at 2pm.

Caroline Moss, development officer for the company, said Libra was being forced to close in its current format because an annual grant of £4,200 was being withdrawn by the county council.

This year, councillors agreed an £8.9m package of cuts in social services, due to funding pressures.

Ms Moss said: "The county council was very supportive and gave us an extra year's funding to tide us over.

"We hope the loss of revenue will not affect us too much and that we will benefit from becoming part of Pegasus Theatre, where we will continue to run workshops." Miss Moss said the Libra company had used theatre venues in Oxford, Abingdon and Wallingford in the past.

She added: "Joining the Pegasus Theatre will take us right into the heart of the community."

Mike Biddulph, a spokesman for the county council, said: "We have been talking to Libra about how to help them keep going.

"We are still funding the group until the end of March, when new eligibility criteria about the people we help means it is unlikely that our funding can continue."