I volunteer at Radio Marsden, the hospital radio station serving the Royal Marsden hospitals in Sutton and Chelsea.  For the last 2 and a half years, I have been growing my hair and as part of the Big C Challenge 2015 on Tuesday 29 September I shall be shaving it all off!

Once a week on a Thursday Night, I go round the wards at the Royal Marsden Sutton collecting the patients requests and if they feel up to it, they join me and my producer for the show.

After spending 2 years meeting, talking to the patients, families and the brilliant nurses and finding out about bands that I have never heard of before and playing their music during the show, I felt that there is more that we can do.

So that is why as well as looking to raise money for the Royal Marsden and the £80,000 needed for the robotic surgeon, I shall also be donating my hair to the Little Princesses Trust, once it has all been removed as part of the Big C Challenge which runs for the whole of September!  My hair shall then be used to make wigs for children who have lost their hair due to cancer.

All donations will go towards the £80,000 needed to train a robotic surgeon, which will ensure that surgeons can make microscopic incisions into patients with far greater accuracy and control.  This means that patients lose less blood, experience less pain, recover more quickly and spend less time in hospital.

So don't forget Tuesday 29 September, the Big Hair Cut!

Thank you very much

Alan