Schoolgirl has her long hair lopped off for charity

A kind-hearted eight-year-old girl has had her long hair reduced by nearly one foot to help children who are less fortunate.

Alyssia Read has set her sights on raising money for the Little Princess Trust, which helps children who have lost their hair due to treatment for illness, most commonly cancer, by having much of her hair cut off.

On top of the money Alyssia, a pupil at Burton End Primary Academy in Haverhill, is raising for the charity, her hair will also be used to make wigs for children.

Now the deed has been done, and 10 inches of Alyssia’s hair, which previously reached the base of her back, has been removed with the help of a stylist at Crazy Cuts, in Mill Road, Haverhill, on Monday.

Alyssia’s dad, Chris Read, of Park Road, Haverhill, said: “I think she just saw an advert for it (the charity) on YouTube and she came to her mum and said she wanted to get it cut off to help the little girls that didn’t have their hair any more.

“She wanted to give them her hair, which is really sweet. She is a really sweet little girl.”

Aside from hair hair actually being sent to the charity, Alyssia, with the help of her mum Georgina Hubbard, has set up a fund-raising web page.

It can be found at https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/alyssia-read.

Georgina said of her daughter: “She is such a sweet and kind natured person who is always thinking of others and this is her way of giving to someone in need.”