“We have let that [lack of funding] flip into pleasure,” Beckford-Norton instructed BBC Sport.
“We’re actually taking that point to get pleasure from each other, each second on and off the court docket.
“I believe we’ve spent extra time collectively lately as properly. It is about having fun with this second and placing ourselves able to have fun on the finish of the day, to say that everybody gave their all.”
They face a Newcastle workforce who upset the chances by defeating Sheffield Hatters and Caledonia Gladiators, who completed third and second within the league behind the Lions, within the quarter-finals and semi-finals.
Beckford-Norton, who received a Commonwealth Video games silver medal with England at Birmingham 2022, is assured she might be lifting the play-off trophy on the finish.
“It is going to be a really bodily sport, that is what we’re getting ready for,” she mentioned.
“Being undefeated, already getting to 3 finals this season and this one being the fourth, we all know what we now have and that if everybody raises their sport we’ll achieve success it doesn’t matter what is on the opposite aspect. I do not suppose anybody can match us.”
Beckford-Norton and England males’s participant Orlan Jackman attended 10 Downing Avenue to fulfill Akshata Murty, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s spouse, and put ahead their case for elevated funding and publicity for the game within the UK.