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Hey all,
My little girl has decided to cut her stupidly long hair off so she can donate it to the little Princess Trust. This charity was set up to make wigs for children with health problems which can range from cancer treatment to alopecia.
I'm extremely proud of her not only because I know how much she loves her long locks but mainly because she's 7 and decided to do this all herself!!
Each wig costs up to £500 to be made by the charity so as well as donating her locks she's also trying to raise some money whilst she's at it. She's almost there now and very close to the £500 she wanted to raise so I'm having a last push in the hope we can put a smile on her face as big as the lucky child that will end up with a 20" wig!
I know times are tight and I'm not one to come on here asking people so as an incentive I've got a brand new Troy Lee Designs short sleeve jersey that I'll give to one lucky donatee. So if you've got a couple of quid in your paypal account and fancy a new jersey it'd be awesome if you could help out.
You might get a cool jersey for a bargain price or worse case scenario you've made a child very happy and ultimately karma will swing around when you bump into that hot girl / boy you see every few weeks.
Donations can be through her justgiving page here....
https://www.justgiving.com/eviep
If you make a donation, post on here saying so and I'll get her to conjure up a prize draw for the jersey later!!
Joanna Rowsell is also ambassador for the Little Princess Trust if you need any further tenuous cycling links!!!
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fabulous, donated and shes met her target, chappeau dan.
Cheers wonkey_donkey!!!
Gold star ti_pin_man!!
The suns shining on Pyro's and he's in the drawer!
Well done that girl, donated!
^ Good man.
welcome, and well done her!
What a nice kid you have there. I've just donated a bit.
Great idea and a great kid you have there, donated.
Thanks muchly Bluebird & Alphabet!!
I do love the kindness of strangers!
Just noticed there's an anonymous donation on there. Make sure you either put your name on there or here so I don't miss anyone off the prize drawer!
Such a great thing to do. donation paid over. and I've spread the link around a few people at work and others, they may not be into cycling but that's not the point here is it.
keep up the good work
(Anthony)
Great thing for your daughter to be doing - Glad to be able to donate and help her efforts
you must be very proud dan
donated
I've been growing my hair since I was a baby and now its so long it covers my bottom!!
I have a similar problem with hair covering my bottom, maybe I should get a wax! Donation made in compensation for poor taste 🙂
Thanks for the support Anthony.
Phil, Spawn, Rubber your all gonna win big on the lottery at some point!!*
You think i'd raise as much if I veet'd my butt rubber_buccaneer?
(* disclaimer. This may or may not happen)
A great cause. Well done little one.
Have donated.
Done 🙂 (Richard)
what a great thing for your daughter to do. If i were lucky enough to win the t-shirt, please sell it and use the money to buy your daughter something nice.
Cheers
Matt liston
Unsponsored, bear & Marp all onboard and have helped to get us past £700!!!!
Wow amazing stuff everyone. Evie's well chuffed and so thankful to you all!!
Just donated.
You must be very proud to have such a kind and unselfish daughter.
Hope she enjoys the haircut!
Hello just donated, well done Evie!
Excellent work peeps.
Thank you muchly chopper and vondally!!
Evie is loving the messages of support and giggling to herself at all of your funny names!
Just et a donation, well done to her
Just donated mate , what a little star you've got there !
Thanks easygirl and crapjumper.
The totals doing amazingly. We have also received a few offline donations so could even hit over £1000 when all done. Astounding!!
I'll leave the drawer until Sunday eve in case we get any last minute donations and Evie want to conjure up some method of selecting that currently includes the dog 😕
Thanks everyone once again!
friendly bump
To note, I won't be giving the jersey away if I win 🙂
How much inc offline is she away from £1k?
£783.00 Online
maybe £100.00 offline but I'll try and get these online over the weekend.
I reckon she's very close now. Theres also a couple of boxes we made up at the school and the hairdressers who'd doing the chop so should hopefully get a few quid from there as well.
Add to that the £185.25 in gift aid additions currently online and it might even be on its way to £1500.00 which is quite frankly crazy!!!
The girls doing good!
She's doing great and such a lovely mind that wants to do such a thing. You must be ridiculously proud!
that is awesome!
Depending who your employer is they may match fund at least part of the fundraising that's taken place
A lot of places don't advertise it
What a smashing cause! What a thoughtful girl you have!
Good girl. Fiver in.
What a lovely thing to do. I'm in!
Great job donated
Doffs hat to Jef, Shifter, Jkomo & Lungman.
Thanks one and all!
nice one!
What a nice thing to do 🙂
Well, how did it go today?!
Don't know about the hair cut but the running total appears to have hit that magic 1k figure 😉
Hey everyone!
Well it's been a long busy day but Evie did amazingly!!
After being brought into the hall she was sat on her own in front of 300 children whilst the head teacher rambled on and on.
I was amazed at how brave she was, she's a fairly quiet and timid girl but she sat there beaming away and looked so happy.
No tears as the chop took place and within a few seconds we had over 20" of hair ready to go to some other special little girl.
It's been a long day for her so we are going to do the draw tomorrow after school as she wants to make a little video to say thank you to you all.
As you can imagine I'm a very very proud dad today and you lot should be to. We still need to get the remnants in and have a final count up but I'm confident we'll be topping the £1500 figure which is astounding bearing in mind the original £500 figure I thought was reaching a bit!!
So until tomorrow it's a big thank you for your part in her little adventure and a big smile from the special girl herself!
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Brilliant, tremendous stuff!
Absolutely awesome 8)
(Your new hair style is fab, Evie!)
She does look properly cool with her new Bob.
Great stuff proud dad.
Wow!
huge thank you to everyone especially those that have done so in the last 24 hours! This total keeps going up!!
Ahead of the draw this evening can I just make sure I've got everyone ready for the draw. By reckoning it should be those listed below but shout if your not down as not everyone posted on here and I've done my best at trawling through the donations on the justgiving page!
ti_pin_man
wonkey_donkey
Pyro
big_scot_nanny
bluebird
Alphabet
4130s0ul
phil56
spawnofyorkshire
Rubber_Buccaneer
unsponsored
bearnecessities
marp
choppersquad
vondally
easygirl
crapjumper
Jef Wachowchow
shifter
jkomo
lungman
convert
mantaray
Rusty Mac
huckleberryfatt
Sodajim
Notmyrealname
Better late than never and a bump for the evening crowd.
Give that Evie of yours a huge high five from all at SturmeyArcher Towers 🙂
And we have some winners!
I'll type up the winners later but for now I'll let Evie tell you herself!
Yay I've won something I think. Well I am one of the 4 runners up.
Congratulations Evie, I hope my little girl grows up to be as thoughtful and generous as you.
I know that it's Ariel and Belle on that bin! How did my life turn out this way?
Well done Evie 🙂
More than one winner in all of this;
1. A little girl somewhere is getting a new wig of some lovely long hair, at a time when she'll really need it
2. Evie - awesome, just awesome
3. Proud dad Dan
4. The STW collective for getting behind her (love this place sometimes)
5. The git who won the raffle (gah... i never win owt)
Crampjumper - bet you weren't thinking of this when you chose your name eh?!
Shifter - you're not wrong there . I only checked this thread again this morning and I'm having a bitch of a day in work so this has cheered me up no end . As spawnofyorkshire said there are lots of winners .
Gravitysucks- Dan you must be bursting with pride with Evie and what she has achieved here .
Awesome. Well done the winner and runners-up, and most of all fantastic work Evie and Dan 🙂
Yay, runner-up *runs around office*
Indeed crapjumper, super proud!! She's been super excited about this for a while now and I'm so happy to see it all come to fruition with some many positive vibes coming from everyone!
Its done her confidence the world of good and highlighted to everyone what I already knew. What a kind, thoughtful and selfless person she is!
yes i'm a runner up woohoo! Thanks Evie!
And well done STW - feel good thread of the year 🙂
Well done Dan - you should be super proud.
Man, the suspense was killing me watching that! She knows how to work a crowd... 🙂
Great work Evie!
So as her up there said /\
The winner of the Jersey is Crampjumper 😉
Runners up are...
Wonkey_Donkey
Rusty Mac
Bearnecessities
SturmeyArcher (after squeezing in at the 11th hour!)
I'll get an email off to you all shortly so I can grab your addresses.
You should all be extremely proud of yourselves for getting on board and supporting her. I was in to minds whether to float it on here but once again you lot have proved just how positive this community really is.
Not that the figures matter but I think you should all know that the STW collective accounted for over £400.00 of the donations received when you take the gift aid into account.
That's roughly 33% of all the donations received, from a bunch of strangers spread across the world that have never even met me let alone Evie!
Its taught her an important life lesson about how if you strive to do something good and positive people will always get behind you, not matter who you are.
Your all amazing, and I only wish I could thank you all in person!
Whoop! I've not won anything since scooping an out of date jar of cranberry sauce from the lucky dip at the 1982 school fete.
Chapeau to all involved and congratulations to Evie for making so many people happy.
The runners up prize is [i]way[/i] better than the jersey!
Thank you 😀
Whadisit? Whadisit? Whadisit?!
Just seen this, so added a late entry. I never win raffles, so let's pretend I was in it and didn't win.
Well done Evie!
Yep, super awesome runners-up prize - even more people are happy now 🙂
I eat really well, like [i]really [/i]well, every day, without fail. I resist everything right now. It's a total bore.
This morning, I devoured around 600 calories of pure sugar in one go, and I bloody loved it. Would never have done that without it being posted though my letterbox. Thanks 😀
Still got another packet to go!
*collapses from hyperglycemia*
I was part way through donating, when I got called away and never went back to it i just added £5 to your total, what a great thing to do.