Two eight-year-old ladies from West Lothian have raised over £700 for a most cancers analysis charity.
The pair of younger mates, Lily Tiger Townend and Grace Clare McIntyre, raised £705 for the Little Princess Belief by rising their hair throughout lockdown after which having it minimize.
Annie Townend, proud mum of Lily, mentioned: “The 2 of them acquired the thought into their heads at only the start of the pandemic to chop their hair and donate it to charity.
“However Grace’s hair wasn’t fairly lengthy sufficient but they usually had determined they have been going to do it collectively and naturally hairdressers weren’t open for the longest time.”
Grace and Lily, pupils at St Joseph’s RC Major College and Linlithgow Bridge Major College respectively, blew their preliminary modest goal of £108 out of the water.
This month, the women lastly acquired their haircut after two years of progress at FI Hair in Linlithgow to donate to the belief to make real-hair wigs for youngsters shedding their hair to most cancers or different circumstances.
Lily donated round 12 inches of her hair whereas Grace wasn’t far behind with 10 inches of her hair.
All of it should go in direction of crafting genuine wigs for different youngsters.
Annie added: “The ladies introduced up the thought themselves. They will need to have seen it on Tiktok or Youtube.
“To be trustworthy we didn’t take a lot discover at first. You recognize what children are like, they are saying they’re going to do one thing else 100 occasions a day.”
The wigs go to youngsters residing with life-changing medical circumstances freed from cost, and assist to revive their confidence and id.
All funds donated to the Little Princess Belief go in direction of funding most cancers analysis.
The belief is completely funded by group fundraisers like Lily and Grace.
Annie concluded: “Lily stored saying to everybody that she was rising her hair out for charity. Lily’s hair acquired actually lengthy and my sister the hairdresser was all the time asking to chop it however she stored saying ‘nope I’m rising it out’.
“They have been each tremendous nervous main as much as it however acquired actually excited on the day - they ended up getting pampered!
“The ladies are so happy with themselves now for sticking it out and managing to lift over £700 for the belief with their wee fundraiser.”
You'll be able to donate to the women fundraiser and assist their trigger by going to www.justgiving.com/fundraising/nicolle-henderson.
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