103-year-old woman crowned as world’s oldest volunteer

Beryl Carr, 103, has volunteered at Ealing Hospital's cafeteria for over 20 years. (London North West University via SWNS)

By Isobel Williams

A 103-year-old woman has been crowned the oldest female volunteer in the world after decades of volunteering in a hospital café.

Centenarian Beryl Carr, who spent most of her life in Cambridgeshire, still comes in one day a week to volunteer at the Friends Café in Ealing Hospital, west London.

She started working in the hospital as a sprightly 80-year-old in 2003 preparing food and working on the till.

Now, after over two decades of service, Beryl has been being listed in the online Guinness Book of Records as the oldest female volunteer in the world.

The legendary helper says she has loved every second, particularly enjoying the chance to