By Loughborough Echo | Posted 18 August, 2017
TWO cousins have raised more than £700 between them after coincidentally both having their hair cut for charity.
Eight-year-old Lily-Rose Robinson-Smith, originally from Shepshed, and 10-year-old Emily Smith, from Loughborough, have both cut off several inches of their hair for various charities and neither knew the other was doing so.
Lily-Rose raised just over £95 for the Little Princess Trust, which makes real hair wigs for sick children, and Emily raised more than £610 for Macmillan Cancer Support and LOROS.
Emily’s mum Debbie told the Echo: “It made me quite emotional seeing her hair cut but I’m very proud that she cared enough to want to do something for other people and she really understood what she was doing it all for. It’s quite humbling.”
Lily-Rose’s mum Nicola said: “She’d been thinking about it for a while, since Christmas. I think it’s lovely thing for her to have done.”
Her dad, Simon, added: “I’m very proud of her.”
