Nikki Smith crowdfunded for a family holiday to Disney World. Picture: Facebook.

Nikki Smith set up the online crowd-funding page in a desperate bid to secure the overseas holiday, despite the platform being generally used for charity causes.

But the 33-year-old was forced to close down the fundraiser, designed to reward her well-behaved kids, after being trolled on social media.

Speaking to the The Sun, she said: “It’s so hard to save with two children as well as working part time, you’ve got the bills and shopping — it would probably take me 10 years to save up that much and it would be too late then.”

She said she had been inspired to start the fundraiser by a friend who had raised money for their own family trip.

The mum said her daughters often watched videos of families being able to visit Disney World in Florida. Picture: Getty.Source:Getty Images

Ms Smith said: “I’ve seen quite a few people doing it over here.

“It’s a wish list on the Go Fund me page — people can save up to travel around the world and everything, there are different funding ideas in there.

“I just thought it would be the only way it would ever happen.”

She said she was shocked when she saw the comments over her petition to take her children, aged 10 and 12, to the adventure park in the US, saying she immediately closed it down.

She said: “I didn’t realise — it was a bad idea I guess.

“I didn’t think people would react like that.”

Her plea had been shared more than 18,000 times on Facebook before the mum shut it down, with thousands of people laughing at the appeal.

One woman wrote: “Taking the absolute p***. There are plenty of families who struggle with money that save for holidays regardless of how long it takes. Absolute chancier.”

Another wrote: “Pure cheek right there.”

A third blasted: “This just ruins the actual purpose of the page, there should be an admin who monitors it.”

Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Picture: GettySource:Getty Images

Before closing down the appeal, the mum of Coalpit Heath, Gloucestershire, had raised just £10 ($8) thanks to two donations of £5 each.

It marks just 0.2 per cent of her target of £5,000.

The mum, who works two nights a week in a local hospital, wrote in on her initial appeal that she couldn’t afford to work more hours “because of childcare” and wanted strangers to “make my daughters’ dreams come true”.

Her post added: “I have been blessed with the most amazing, kind, loving and caring daughters, they are my best friends and my life.

“I want to show them how much I appreciate and love them.

“They watch a lot of YouTube videos where children are surprised by their parents with a holiday to Disney World and they even get tears in their eyes watching it.

“We lost two very special people in our lives these past couple of years and this really would give them so much to look forward to.”

GoFundMe website. Picture: GoFundMe.Source:Supplied

Crowd-funding giant GoFundMe claims to be the world’s largest social fundraising platform and have raised more than £2.5 billion for causes since it began in 2010.

It allows users to create their own website to raise funds for certain projects and is often used for charity causes.

The site helped raise around £2 million in memory of murdered MP Jo Cox, with the funds divided between Hope Not Hate, The White Helmets and The Royal Voluntary Service.

Other notable fundraisers include the gay nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida, and a fund for Boston Marathon bombing victim Jeff Bauman, who lost both legs in the 2013 attack.