A 11-year-old girl, who raised £110,000 for a children’s hospice after her sister died of a brain tumour, has won a national award.

Isabella Field, Bella to her friends, won the title of Best Young Fundraiser of the Year at the Institute of Fundraising.

The Woodbridge High School pupil began fundraising after her eight-year-old sister, Molly, died from an inoperable brain tumour in September 2010.

Molly spent the last days of her life at Haven House Children’s Hospice, in High Road, Woodford Green, and since then Bella has raised more than £110,000 for the charity.

Her mother, Mel Field, of Darnley Road, Woodford Green, said: “I was so unbelievably proud, yet again, of my gorgeous Isabella and she seemed so grown up this time.

“When people approached her either at our table or after she had won, she handled herself with such maturity and grace, always talking so highly of Haven House and of course her sister Molly.”

Haven House helped Bella’s parents after the death of Molly, and Bella herself receives counselling from Buddies, the children’s hospice’s sibling support group. Bella was presented with the award in a ceremony on November 29 at The Troxy in London.

She now has a number of notches on her fundraising belt having previously won the Recorder/Redbridge Rotary Club Young Citizen of the Year award in 2014, and then going on to win the Rotary Great Britain and Ireland’s Young Citizen Award in 2015.

She was named Community Champion at the Pride of Essex Awards in the same year.

Haven House chief executive Mike Palfreman said: “To receive an Institute of Fundraising Award is an amazing achievement and we are so proud of Isabella.

“She is a wonderful role model for young people in our local area and through Isabella’s fundraising we have been able to support other families with life-limited children.”

Last year Rotary International, flew Bella and her mother to Sao Paulo, Brazil, to tell 17,000 Rotarians her story.