Our mission is for women of all ages to be given the chance to play regular football by providing a fun, team spirited development programme to build football skills for all abilities.
Gemma Ali
Coach and Founder
Gemma has been passionate about football since she was very young and played whenever the boys let her join in! She lived in North America during her 30’s and took advantage of the more accessible opportunities already there for women and girls in football, playing on a 5 a side football team. Since returning to England, she worked in the charity sector as an events fundraiser and took up football coaching in her spare time. Gemma has been head coach of a girl’s grassroots local football team for the last 6 years. After the amazing Summer our Lionesses gave us bringing it home, she decided it was the perfect time to trial her idea of football based fitness sessions for women that may have never had the opportunity to play.
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Ella Waldron
Coach
Ella is a professional footballer and coach. She has been playing football since the age of 4 and started her footballing career at Brighton FC aged 13, she currently plays for Watford FC. In addition to FootyFit, Ella runs 1-2-1 fitness coaching sessions around the Teddington area.
Brian McAllister
Coach
Brian is a personal trainer and football coach in the Richmond and Kingston area. He has been involved in football since he was old enough to kick a ball and has been a qualified coach since 2018. He coaches a football team for the P3 charity in West London. In addition to FootyFit, Brian is a mobile personal trainer in the local area, and provides various football sessions including, 1-2-1, group and football birthday parties.
Holly Hawkes
Coach
Holly has played football since she was 5, the only girl amongst the boys, she was put in goal a lot of the time. She finally found a girl's team aged 7 and never stopped playing!
She was at Brentford Women's FC for the past 3 years, taking up multiple positions, her favourite being centre mid. Holly currently studies at St Mary's University and also coaches for Coerver and NPL youth girl. She really enjoys coaching across all ages -"it's so nice meeting new people and I hope I can help develop players and make the environment fun so they can play for as long as possible".
