Thank you for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.

Like many people in the UK I'm in 'lockdown' in an effort to minimise the spread of Covid19 and protect the most vulnerable people in our society. It's a little odd, it has challenges but it's really no hardship.

I haven't had a hair cut since December 2019, it doesn't look like I'll be able to get one for some time to come. I'm not letting my wife anywhere near me with scissors so it'll have to be clippers, which means it all goes. How much goes is up to you!

This page launches on 1 April (no joke), I'll fundraise for the whole month and the cut will happen on 1May. I will not cut or trim my hair until then so it is uncomfortably long and unkempt.

I'll post a pic each week to show progress, and I will of course record the cut in video and pictures to capture the stages... Yes stages.

I've set an initial target of £350, if we hit that I'll clipper my head.

IF we get beyond that I'll set a few more little targets to get rid of my beard in various funny stages.

I've never done anything like this before, I'm not particularly vain, and I don't overly care about my appearance, but I've never shaved all my hair off as an adult either, so this will certainly be new ground for me. I do have a very good reason though...

I recently began working at St Elizabeth Hospice in Ipswich, Suffolk. I'd had a trying year previously and about 3 months of unemployment. Although I haven't worked there for long, it only took a week or so for me to realise how special the place is, and the importance of the care it provides. You do get easily inspired to start thinking how you can help more and support the work they do.

The Covid19 pandemic has changed so much, but there are still vulnerable people in need of help and the hospice is still committed to providing the very best care it can despite its usual fundraising efforts being stymied through the measures that need to be taken to limit the spread.

The only way I've been able to cope with how much life has changed is to look at the things I can directly affect in my life, the things I can actually control and do. As ridiculous as this is, it is one of the small things I can do to try and help. I hope you'll consider supporting a silly idea for an excellent cause.

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