A Horsforth girl hailed as Yorkshire’s top young charity fundraiser is selling vintage views of the Dales at Skipton’s Handpicked Hall.

Despite being just 13, Bethany Hare has already raised more than £30,000 for the Martin House Hospice in Leeds.

She has now set herself a target of raising £300,000 to buy a Smile Cottage by the sea, where families of terminally-ill children and young people can go for respite.

And to set her firmly on the way, her Bethany Hare Smile Foundation is selling reproduction prints of acclaimed artist, the late PB Rennison, of York.

The prints, postcards and gift tags include watercolour studies of Skipton High Street, Grassington, Burnsall and Kilnsey Crag.

They were discovered by chance in a crafts shop near Burnsall.

John Chapman, who runs Yorkshire Crafts, said: “A friend of mine and business associate of the late artist had had them printed to sell in his shop in Scarborough, but when it closed a few years ago, he asked me if I would like some prints to sell on to my Yorkshire Craft customers.

“I was only expecting a couple of hundred, but a few weeks later a vanload of about 75 boxes, containing around 30,000 prints of all sizes arrived. They’ve been in the cellar ever since.”

It was just before Christmas that retired showbusiness journalist and celebrity publicist, John Rimington, came into the shop and saw a couple on display.

“I happened to mention that I had in the cellar boxes of prints different to those he had seen and bought, and the next day he called me to say he’d bulk-buy the lot.”

Mr Rimington, of Rawdon, decided to donate all the reproduction pictures and cards to Bethany’s Smile charity because he was so impressed of what she had achieved.

“I am hoping residents and retailers will support my latest fundraising Vintage Vews of the Yorkshire Dales venture by buying the reproductions of original paintings either for themselves, family, friends or by owners of card and gift shops, art galleries and museums as stock to sell on to customers and visitors or as souvenirs to overseas tourists visiting the area next summer for the early stages of the 2014 Tour de France,” said Bethany.

Anthony Blackburn, director of Handpicked Hall, said he thought Bethany was “inspirational” and that her charity was very worthwhile.

Bethany launched Vintage Views at Handpicked Hall, in the former Co-op next to the bus station, yesterday (Wednesday) and it will run for four days. Prints will be available for £1, postcards, 50p and gift tags, 10p.

Bethany and her team will also be out and about throughout the summer with Vintage Views at various events, including Kilnsey Show.

Bethany, from Horsforth, launched the children’s charity a year ago and since then has organised numerous events, including her Walk of Smiles and fashion show, Styles for Smiles.

She has received much recognition for her charity work, including being named Just Giving Young Fundraiser of the Year 2011; The Kids Count UK – Most Inspirational Young Person 2011; The British Red Cross Humanitarian Citizen of the Year 2011, and the Princess Diana Award for Fundraising 2012.

To find out more about Bethany’s Smile go to bethanyssmile.org