Please consider raising funds for the Little Princess Trust. The cost of one wig to the charity is, on average,
around £350. Any amount of fundraising that you can offer towards this cost will help the charity to continue to
provide wigs to boys and girls throughout the UK and Ireland that have lost their own hair through cancer
treatment.
There are many ways that you can raise funds and there is a fundraising pack available from the Trust to assist
you. Please click here to request a fundraising pack. The pack includes a guide, some posters and leaflets. It also
includes a sponsor form & Gift Aid form. Whilst you may use these, we do however recommend that for ease of
fundraising you visit www.justgiving.com and make a page so that your supporters can donate to the Little
Princess Trust easily on-line. Arranging your fundraising this way means that after your event, you will not have
to chase your supporters for their contributions.
Fundraisers have in the past organised all sorts of events from family fun days to sponsored bike rides. Some have
even organised a sponsored haircut and then sent their cut hair to the charity as well. We have an arrangement with
a wig-making factory to make use of hair donated in this way but please note that we are unable to guarantee that
this hair will be made into wigs specifically for use by the Little Princess Trust. Any hair that is deemed suitable is
sent to the factory and the Trust receives in return a large number of children’s wigs that we may use free of
charge. These wigs, manufactured in particularly small sizes, can cost up to £2,000 each. For more specific
details about sending your hair as part of your fundraising event, please see below. The Little Princess Trust is
proud to confirm that it does not sell any hair which it receives, nor has it ever done so in the past.
Suitable hair types are:
- Clean hair in good condition from all ethnicities and genders, and of any colour
- Straight
- Curly
- Coloured, bleached/highlighted
- Layered
Unsuitable hair for children’s wigs:
- Hair that is less than 7”/17cm in length
- Grey hair
- Permed
- Dreadlocks
- Hair extensions
- Old hair, previously cut in the past
Instructions if you are intending to donate your hair as part of your fundraising event:
- Prior to the cut, please wash and dry your hair. Please do not add any styling product.
- Have your hair tied into a plait or pony-tail, secured at both the root end and the tip end.
- Ask your hairdresser to cut your hair above the band at the root end, thereby releasing a plait/pony-tail,
tied at both ends. You are now in a position to have your hair cut further and styled or indeed shaved, if
that is your intention.
- Wrap your plait/pony-tail tightly in tissue paper or cling-film immediately after it has been cut. Place it
in a padded envelope and post it using a regular postal service to:
Little Princess Trust
c/o Trendco
Sheridan House, 114-116 Western Road
Hove
BN3 1DD. UK
- Please include your email address in the parcel so that one of our kind volunteers can send you a
certificate of thanks. Please note this can take several weeks.
