Saturday 30 August 2014

Local activist and campaigner Lisa Clarke is running the Robin Hood marathon for Nottingham Forest Ladies FC.

Lisa is a local volunteer for No More Page 3 which is asking the editor of the Sun to drop its daily soft porn feature. The campaign are proud sponsors of the local team thanks to funds raised last year from crowd sourcing.
Lisa is a strong supporter of the partnership having lived in Nottingham all her life and now wants to help all she can to fund the teams 2014-2015 season.
 
She said – “Women’s’ sport gets only 5% of the coverage of men’s sport in the UK and this is letting down women and girls badly. Because of the poor coverage it is far more difficult to find sponsorship and funds. If we want to encourage young girls to be active we have to see more women’s sport in our press and we have to support women’s sport far more than we do. That is why I am running for Nottingham Forest Ladies FC. I want to do all I can. It makes me really cross that they struggle so much for funding when they play so well and are doing so well as a team.
 
Nottingham Forest Ladies FC Club Operations Manager Steven Gray adds "It's great to see that the NMP3 campaign has been so positive in wanting to increase the publicity of women's sport and running the Robin Hood Marathon to help Forest Ladies raise some much needed and funding only helps us do that with every member of the club bring a volunteer and players all paying subs, every penny raised via sponsorship/fundraising counts and is genuinely appreciated by everybody at the club and we can only hope to repay that on match days."
 
Please sponsor Lisa and Nottingham Forest Ladies FC so that they can enjoy another successful season and continue to train and inspire the next generation of local girls to take up the national game.

Please contact -
Steven Gray 
Club Operations Manager
Nottingham Forest Ladies FC
Tel: 07870 156 937

Twitter: @stevegray87 
And
Lisa Clarke
No More Page 3 team member
Tel - 07951 923436
Twitter: @LisaLouClarkey and @nomorepage3