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Ella Morgan has VERY long hair.
The 18-year-old from Sharnbrook has been growing it practically all of her life, but on Saturday 10 August she’ll be having 20 inches of it cut off for a children’s charity.
“Honestly I’m quite scared and nervous because I’ve always had long hair” admits the part-time care home worker. “But on the other hand I’m extremely excited because it’s a big change and knowing that it’s for a good cause like this is even better!”
Ella hopes to raise £500 for Action Medical Research.
Her older sister, Charlotte, encouraged her to fundraise for charity after her son (Ella’s nephew) was born with mild cerebral palsy.
“Harper suffered a stroke while Charlotte was just 24 weeks pregnant. He’s 19 months old now and one of the happiest little boys I know.
“Action does a lot of work to help fund research into numerous conditions that affect babies and children and I just wanted to show my support.”
Ella has a close friend who is an apprentice at Daniel Granger Hairdressing in Northampton – the salon owned and run by the presenter from TV’s ‘Body Fixers’.
She’ll be doing the honours on 10 August. And the 20 inches of hair certainly won’t be wasted.
Ella plans to donate it to the Little Princess Trust, a charity that provides real hair wigs free of charge to children and young people who have lost their own hair due to cancer treatment and other conditions.
You can find out more about Ella’s challenge on her Just Giving page.
Action Medical Research is a UK-wide children’s charity which funds desperately needed research to tackle the diseases that devastate the lives of so many of our children. It has been funding medical breakthroughs since it began in 1952 including helping to introduce the first polio vaccines in the UK, developing the use of ultrasound in pregnancy and testing the rubella vaccine.
Action is currently funding research into areas including premature birth, epilepsy, asthma, scarlet fever, cerebral palsy, brain cancer and some rare and distressing conditions.
NOTES TO EDITORS
You can read more about Ella’s challenge in this short blog:
https://action.org.uk/blog/teen-supporter-cuts-hair-action
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Action Medical Research is a leading UK-wide charity saving and changing children’s lives through medical research. For more than 65 years we’ve helped pioneer ways to prevent disease and develop treatments benefiting millions of people. Our research has helped to beat polio in the UK, develop ultrasound in pregnancy, fight meningitis and prevent stillbirths. But we urgently need to develop more new treatments and cures for sick babies and children and we can’t do it without you.
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