Marcus Rashford has become the youngest person to top the Sunday Times Giving List.
The Manchester United and England striker, 23, raised £20million in donations from supermarkets for groups tackling child food poverty in the UK.
The Giving List ranks people by how their money raised for charity compares to their net worth. Rashford is worth £16m, so his £20m raised is the equivalent of 125 per cent of his wealth.
Rashford helped charity FareShare distribute four million meals to vulnerable children during the pandemic and also forced a series of Government U-turns over free school meals.
Boris Johnson retracted his vow not to extend the voucher system into the summer holidays after Rashford penned an open letter calling on the Prime Minister's cabinet to reconsider.
Rashford also launched a petition urgring the Government to extend free school meals through the half-term and Christmas holidays, with ministers subsequently providing £170million of extra funding.
The 23-year-old, who received free school meals himself, was also made an MBE in the delayed 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
Liverpool and England midfielder Jordan Henderson ranks sixth on the list after raising £4m for the NHS from fellow top-flight stars through the #PlayersTogether appeal.
