Thoughtful Leeds man saves vouchers all year before donating to children

Oscar Knowles, 26 receives Love2Shop vouchers through his job.

Throughout the year, he has saved up £800 of the vouchers.

However, rather than spending the money on himself this Christmas, compassionate Oscar decided to spread Christmas cheer - and instead chose nine families to give the vouchers to.

He put out a request on social media this afternoon which read: "If anyone knows of any families with kids struggling for Christmas presents this year please get them to private message me.

"I have some vouchers I’d like to give away which should help get some stuff for the little ones."

Oscar, from Oakwood, was inundated with requests from friends of families in need.

He chose nine families and spent the afternoon delivering the vouchers across Leeds.

Oscar told the Yorkshire Evening Post the vouchers would have "just gone up the wall" if he had spent them.

Instead, he said: "I saw an opportunity to give to the less fortunate and I decided I wanted families with young children to have the vouchers.

"I had about 30 to 40 people message and I tried to filter the ones who had the youngest children and without being too nosey got a background of their situation."

Oscar's efforts were praised across social media.

On local forum Leedsplace, many families wrote to thank him for his amazing generosity.

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