A brave young woman is on the ball when it comes to fundraising for a charity close to her heart.

Courageous 23-year-old Cystic Fibrosis sufferer Lynsey Beswick enlisted the help of two teams of footballers to raise £120 for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust by holding a sponsored football match.

Lynsey, of Caley Close, Rawcliffe, York, was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis from birth and just before Christmas spent time in hospital undergoing treatment for her illness.

She went to All Saints' School in York and graduated from Sunderland University with a journalism degree, but now Lynsey works from home for the trust as a patient advisor, looking to improve standards of care for patients with the illness.

Cystic Fibrosis is a life-threatening inherited disease caused by a single faulty gene that controls the movement of salt in the body and sufferers have to pay for their own treatment and associated costs.On Saturday two teams from North Duffield Football Club one representing York and the other Selby including Lynsey's dad, Graham, and her 16-year-old brother, Greg played a match at Riccall to raise much- needed money for the charity.

In people with Cystic Fibrosis, the internal organs become clogged with thick, sticky mucous resulting in infections and inflammation making it hard to breathe and digest food.

In November last year, Chancellor Gordon Brown's four-month-old son, Fraser, made the headlines when he was diagnosed with the disease.

Lynsey's mum, Jackie, said she is very proud of her daughter. She said: "She's a brave young woman. She is always thinking of others and putting them before herself.

"Lynsey was determined not to be in hospital on Christmas Day and when I went to collect her she was only bothered about the people she was leaving behind in hospital. Trying to raise funding for people with Cystic Fibrosis is a full time job and Lynsey gives talks up and down the country to make people more aware of the disease."