FRIENDS of a teenager who drowned in a flooded Yorkshire Dales cave on a school field trip are staging a fundraising football match to mark the tenth anniversary of his death.

The family of North Yorkshire schoolboy Joe Lister said they were delighted the team-mates he played with at Tadcaster Albion under-15s wanted to honour the memory of the 14-year-old.

An inquest in 2007 concluded Joe had drowned in Manchester Hole Cave, near Bewerley Park Outdoor Education Centre, Nidderdale.

The party of 11 pupils, a teacher and an instructor, had crawled through a stretch of the cave on their hands and knees until they reached a section big enough to stand in to admire the stalagmites.

As water surged over the top of a nearby reservoir into the caves and the party swam back towards the surface, Joe became detached from the group.

The Tadcaster Grammar School pupil was later found by a rescuer with his head torch on, but minus his Wellington boots.

Following a joint Health and Safety Executive and North Yorkshire Police investigation and trial, North Yorkshire County Council, which runs the centre, was found not guilty of failing to ensure the health and safety of employees and non-council employees.

Tomorrow (Saturday, November 14), at 6pm, exactly ten years after the tragedy, his former football team-mates will reunite at Tadcaster Albion to play against a team chosen by Joe's brother, Ben, in the Joe Lister Charity Match.

Admission is free, but spectators are being asked to donate to the Upper Wharfedale Fell Rescue Association, which was called out when Joe became stranded in the cave.

Joe's friends, Josh Derry and Ben Fletcher, contacted Joe's sister, Laura, and parents, Martin and Paula, and Joe's brother Ben Lister had also been planning an event.

Mr Lister said: "We were really pleased they remembered and it has grown from there. They got together with our Ben and they have organised it all themselves.

"We just want to get as many people there as we can. Tadcaster Albion have been brilliant. They have made the pitch and clubhouse available to us and the clubhouse will be open on the evening with a bar."

For more information, visit the Joe Lister Charity Football Match facebook page.

To donate to the Upper Wharfedale Fell Rescue Association, visit justgiving.com/uwfra/raisemoney