'I love giving my pocket money away to strangers'

"I want to make the world a better place."

That is the mission of an eight-year-old boy who spends his pocket money on doing good deeds for others.

Rowan, from Salford, has warmed the hearts of thousands of people online after starting a video series showing "random acts of kindness" he has been doing for strangers.

"I love it. I just love to see their happiness and it brightens my day up as well," Rowan told BBC Radio Manchester.

He said he had begun helping people when he was just three years old, with a local church collection and giving out food. But his charity has since expanded into buying tents for homeless people or flowers for elderly people.

Rowan said it made him happy to save up his own money and spend it on trying to make other people feel that same level of happiness.

"I save money from my birthday or Christmas and buy homeless people things that they need like gloves, tents and water," he said.

"I bought one homeless man a chair and I got him an umbrella as well.

"Then the elderly I just give chocolates and flowers and then the men just maybe sometimes chocolates and just aftershave.

"I want to encourage more people to do this, people my age as well."

Rowan's acts of kindness have also been noticed by his school teachers.

"I won an award at school when I helped a little child get off a climbing frame," he said.

His mum, Toni, 28, said she was "really proud" of her son.

"He was three years old when this came about," she said.

"Rowan had watched a Christmas advert showing a family that didn't have a lot of money and he got really upset by it.

"He asked me if he could save some pocket money to go out and buy people presents."

She said they used their online platform to ask: "If anyone's in need or needs anything, just let us know."

"He ended up helping a lot of people... like a lady who had just had a fire," she said.

"She was really down and he delivered gifts to her children. It was amazing."

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