Longbenton six-year-old tells jokes for 50p to raise…

Longbenton six-year-old tells jokes for 50p to raise money to buy foodbank donations

For the last two weeks, six-year-old Harry Dale has been turning comedy into cash to buy food donations for a local foodbank.

The selfless schoolboy has been telling his favourite jokes in exchange for a 50p donation towards the cost of a food shop which will go towards feeding struggling families amid the cost of living crisis. And with the grand total of £35, on Thursday he proudly walked into his local supermarket to buy a list of items which have been running low at North East foodbanks.

Harry's mum, Kelly Dale, from Longbenton, said: "We went to Aldi yesterday to get the food and he wanted to take full control, pushing the trolley, paying for it, the lot. When we were leaving he said 'I feel so happy inside'."

She added: "He's so sweet and the most caring little boy, sometimes I wonder how's he only six with some of the stuff he comes out with. He makes me so proud everyday."

As well as telling jokes, Harry has been doing jobs around the house for 50p, such as making his bed, to help boost his fundraising total. This weekend, the six bags of food that Harry purchased will be donated to either West End Foodbank or a foodbank in Byker.

And after completing his foodbank shop, Harry now hopes to raise money to buy Christmas dinners for homeless people, which cost £5 per meal.

Kelly, 35, said she's unsure how Harry decided he wanted to raise money to help people and even asked his teacher if they were talking about foodbanks or homelessness at school, which she was told they hadn't.

Kelly, who works for Greggs, added: "I thought maybe because it's Harvest Festival at school soon they might have been talking about it, but I've asked and they said they hadn't.

"He was saying that people were going to be so cold and they're not going to have much food, I wish I could do something. So we said 'Why don't you do some little jobs round the house? Or tell one of your jokes for 50p?' so he's been telling everyone and anyone these two jokes for 50p."

Harry's two favourite jokes to tell are: 'What's a cheese called that's not yours? Nacho cheese' and 'What do you call a dinosaur that snores? Snorasaurus'.

And he hopes they will help him to continue to raise money to help people in need, as well as make others smile.

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