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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Eleanor Barlow

Poppy Appeal launched by six-year-old fundraiser

Ivy Knighton-Leake, six, one of the UK’s youngest collectors (Peter Byrne/PA) - (PA Wire)

The annual Poppy Appeal has been launched by one of the Royal British Legion’s youngest fundraisers.

Six-year-old Ivy Knighton-Leake, from Bradford, kicked off the 2026 launch in Manchester on Thursday morning, where she received a special poppy made from the metal of Second World War Spitfires, from Private Katie Brazier, 22, from the Royal Anglian Regiment.

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