A young Manchester United fan has raised thousands for foodbanks after setting off to Old Trafford from Northern Ireland.
10-year-old schoolboy, Ben Dickinson, has smashed his 50,000-meal fundraising target within days of setting off on a charity walk from his hometown in Larne, Northern Ireland to Old Trafford, in aid of food poverty charity FareShare.
The monumental milestone, which equates to £12,500 in donations, was reached just six days into his ten-day ‘Ben’s Miles for Meals’ trek, and it will enable FareShare to tackle hunger in the most vulnerable communities by distributing food packages to charities and foodbanks in Northern Ireland, and across the rest of the UK.
