An eight-year-old from Heywood who donated £100 of her own Christmas money to a local charity has been celebrated for her festive spirit.
Eva Field has used her Christmas cash to help others for the second year in a row, this time donating it to local charity Restoring Hope.
Dad Danny Field, 40, said he gave her £100 since she hadn’t asked for much this Christmas.
“I just said to her, look you can have £100 and you can do with it as you please, thinking she’d go to Smyths,” he told the Manchester Evening News.
“The first words out of her mouth were, ‘I’ll give it to Steve [founder of Restoring Hope], because he can help people with it.”
Her generous donation will go towards helping members of her community who are in need - something she does even outside of the festive season.
“She’s amazing. She always just thinks about other people first,” Danny Field said.
“I don’t know where she gets it from, because I wasn’t like this when I was younger! She just wants to help people. Last year she cut all her hair off and donated it to the Princess Trust. She sees things on the telly and then just wants to help.”
And Eva’s charitable acts don’t end there - last Christmas, she spent her money on sleeping bags and tents for Heywood’s homeless population, as well as buying a trolley full of food for the local food bank.
Eva told the M.E.N she feels has a lot this Christmas even without the money she has given away.
“I think getting a toy for myself would be a little bit selfish because I’m not thinking about all of the other people who don’t have what I have,” she said.
Her Christmas Day this year will involve a big Christmas dinner and having her granny to visit - as well as the knowledge that she’s helped so many over the year.
Steven Kay, founder of Restoring Hope, said Eva is a “big support to him”. His charity helps the local community in a variety of ways, including sending £200 to a Heywood family who are waiting for a donor heart transplant for their 11 week old baby who has had a mechanical heart fitted, earlier this week.
Eva gives up her Saturday and joins Kay once every three months raising money for Restoring Hope in their local Morrisons.
And Eva’s fundraising plans don’t end there. When asked what she wants to do in the future, she told the M.E.N that she hopes to go out and raise even more money over the coming years.
She has been celebrated by Kay as “the future of our town” in a local Facebook group, where her actions have received hundreds of likes.
Her dad said: “She is an amazing kid and I am really proud. If we could all take just one little leaf out of her book, the world would be such a better place.”
