Ed Pownell, from Lambourn in Berkshire, spent £150 on the egg and donated it to the Iuventas Foundation – a charity that provides mentoring, life coaching and mental health support to young people across Oxfordshire.

The charity thought the donation was a joke, but have since put it up for auction. 

The egg was just one item in the auction held for the charity where £5,000 in total were raised, BBC News reports.