A caring Mansfield Woodhouse girl used her time during lockdown earlier this year to help the NHS.

Daisy Mckie, 10, a pupil at St Edmund’s C of E Primary School, made face masks and sold them for £2. Her family and teachers her school were among those who bought the masks.

The youngster raised almost £350 and used the money to buy baby toys for the children’s ward at King’s Mil Hospital, Sutton – a ward where she was once a patient herself.

Daisy recently presented her gifts, asked for by the hospital, to the ward.

Fundraising for the NHS runs in her family. Her dad, Neil, is one of the men who bared all in the Mansfield’s Naked Men Calendar, which is currently on sale and raising money for King’s Mill.

“Her teachers at school and all her family proudly wear her masks, we cannot wait to see what she achieves next,” he said. “The nurses on the ward arranged a special presentation at King’s Mill, so she presented donations and gave the nurses some of her masks. We’re so proud.”

Proud mum Hannah added: “Daisy was so proud of herself knowing that the children who were in hospital would get better quicker if they had the new toys she got for them.

“She worked so hard during lockdown and we couldn’t be more proud.”