A 66-YEAR-OLD Shelf GRAND-MOTHER has raised more than £2,000 for charity after shaving her hair off to help make wigs for children suffering hair loss.
Grace Elliott, 66, (pictured) filmed the headshave which took place at the Shoulder of Mutton pub in Shelf earlier this month, and the video appeared on the big screen in Bradford’s City Park yesterday.
She was out in City Park trying to raise more funds for her chosen charities, which are Marie Curie and the NSPCC.
She explained how she had been thinking about cutting her hair off for charity for the past couple of years, and had been growing her hair longer so she could hand the shorn locks over to the Little Princess Trust which provides real hair wigs to children suffering hair loss - either through cancer or conditions such as alopecia.
“People have told me I’ve been brave for shaving my hair off, but I’m not. The people that wake up in a morning with hair on their pillow, they are brave. I have a choice - they don’t.”
The video is also online and those wishing to donate should visit her fundraising page online at virginmoneygiving.com
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