Serial fundraiser collects £297 in final event of the year
A young serial fundraiser has collected almost £300 in his final charity event of the year.
Louis Johnson, 12, held a tombola in the Mander Centre in Wolverhampton yesterday, and managed to bag £297.28 throughout the day.
Which means that Louis, from Tettenhall Wood, has now raised £19,800 since he started fundraising at the age of five - £6,000 of which he managed to raise this year alone.
His mother Teresa said: "Louis was setting up in the centre from 8am and was there until 4.30pm.
"Every weekend it's been solid with events.
"A couple of people recognised Louis from all the fundraising he's done. One man gave him £20 and said he'd seen him in the Express & Star and all the work he has done.
"It has been a hectic year but he loves it."
The Smestow School pupil began raising money for charity at the age of five when he took part in a five-mile memory walk in West Park in aid of Compton Hospice. He first got involved with the charity after they cared for his nan before she died.
Since then he has raised cash for such charities as more than £18,000 for various charities including Midlands Air Ambulance, Mary Stevens Hospice, Help Harry Help Others and Birmingham Children’s Hospital.
And he became the first youngster in the West Midlands to receive the British Citizen Youth Award in 2016, and has now been asked to become one of their youth ambassadors too.
