A Moreton-in-Marsh woman has reached an incredible milestone, but rather than receiving gifts, selflessly asked that people donate to a charity she has backed for many years.

Toni Middleton, a resident of Oaktree Mews Residential Home, turned 100 years old on Saturday, and raised more than £200 for charity Wateraid UK

She asked people to donate to the charity, rather than shower her with gifts, and said she wishes to thank everybody that made a donation to the charity and celebrated her birthday with her.

The milestone was celebrated with friends at the care home, of which she has been a resident of for seven years.

A spokeswoman for the care home said: "The Oaktree staff and residents would like to take this opportunity to wish her a very happy 100th birthday.

"We are very fond of Toni and admire her independence at such a good age."

The Queen also sent her a telegram for her birthday.

She still leads a sociable life in Cotswolds, attending St David's Church on a weekly basis, and also pays visits to a club run by the Blind Society.

Registered blind herself, Toni has made a number of new friends through attending the club.

She also attends coffee mornings, run by the Women’s Institute, and meets up with a friend for a beverage when she's there.

At the care home, Toni enjoys playing dominoes, participating in quizzes, word games and listening to audio books with the friends she has made during her stay at Oaktree Mews.

Originally from North London, Toni worked in the city for a family run linen company, where she assisted with both office work and as a machinist in her early twenties.

During the Second World War, she enlisted into the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, where she went on to serve for five years.

Upon her discharge from the forces, Toni enrolled at Westhill Training College in Sellyoak, Birmingham

It was here she trained to become a youth and Sunday school lecturer. With this qualification, she travelled around the UK, spending quite some time in the Welsh Valleys, training church group leaders.

Her parents died when she very young, and she was adopted as a result.

After her adoptive father died, Toni moved back to London and became the head of an infant department in a school in the West End, so that she could take care of her adopted mother until she passed away.

When she retired, Toni wanted to move away from the big city to the countryside. She already had friends in the Cotswolds area so decided to move here and has been here ever since.

Wateraid UK provides safe water to people across Asia, Africa, Central America, North America and Europe.

For more information visit wateraid.org/uk