{"id":52910,"date":"2025-03-05T17:25:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T17:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/?p=52910"},"modified":"2025-03-05T17:25:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T17:25:35","slug":"u10s-girls-football-team-smashes-fundraising-target-with-sponsored-hike-around-mam-tor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/03\/05\/u10s-girls-football-team-smashes-fundraising-target-with-sponsored-hike-around-mam-tor\/","title":{"rendered":"U10\u2019s girls football team smashes fundraising target with sponsored hike around Mam Tor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Ridgeway Lionesses under-10\u2019s football team raised a total of \u00a31685 for Cancer Research UK<\/a> and Alzheimer’s Society<\/a> after completing a 10 mile hike starting in Castleton to Mam Tor in Derbyshire on Saturday 2nd March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ridgeway Lionesses football club was founded by Paul Benison and his daughter Zara Benison three years ago after she wanted to continue playing football in a Girls-only team after playing in boys teams growing up.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Starting with just one team from Ridgeway primary school, the club has now grown to 4 teams and has been playing in league for two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The team decided to raise money for Alzheimer’s society and Cancer Research UK as a few members of the team have been directly impacted by these diseases, including Paul Benison whose father has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and Alzheimers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Club secretary and Team manager of the Under 10\u2019s Paul Benison, said: \u201cThe sun was shining, couldn\u2019t have hoped for a better day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Paul said that these causes are \u201creally close to the team’s hearts\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hike was completed in five hours by 11 players and their families from the U-10\u2019s lionesses team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lisa Millet, Cancer Research UK fundraising spokesperson for Sheffield, said: \u201cDedicated fundraisers like the Lionesses provide limitless inspiration for our scientists.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Half of the money raised will be shared between the two charities and the other 50% will be used to enable the Ridgeway lionesses club to continue growing and providing a community for young female footballers to thrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This fundraiser will help cancer research UK to continue their work, striving to find new and better ways to fight cancer and allow Alzheimer’s society to provide the support needed, keeping people with dementia connected to their lives and loved ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lisa said: \u201cNearly one in two of us will get cancer in our lifetime. But, all of us can support the research that will beat it. That\u2019s why we want to say a heartfelt thank you to Ridgeway Lionesses for their commitment to the cause.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lionesses have smashed their original target of raising \u00a3700 but there is still plenty of time to donate through their go fund me page https:\/\/gofund.me\/34624fd4<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Ridgeway Lionesses under-10\u2019s football team raised a total of \u00a31685 for Cancer Research UK and Alzheimer’s Society after completing a 10 mile hike starting in Castleton to Mam Tor in Derbyshire on Saturday 2nd March. The Ridgeway Lionesses football club was founded by Paul Benison and his daughter Zara Benison three years ago after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"featured_media":52920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[191,132,4],"tags":[658,657,377,612],"class_list":["post-52910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-charity","category-top-stories","category-top-story","tag-alzheimers-society","tag-cancer-research-uk","tag-fundraising","tag-womens-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52910"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52960,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52910\/revisions\/52960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}