Scissor sisters cut hair for local cancer charity at Shrewsbury Flower Show
Memories of her beloved grandmother will be in the mind of top stylist Anna Clinton when she cuts hair in a good cause at Shrewsbury Flower Show this weekend.
Anna and Georgina Hughes, of the K2 salon in Shrewsbury’s Darwin Shopping Centre, will be at the Show on Friday and Saturday cutting hair in aid of the Lingen Davies Cancer Charity Appeal – and for Anna it’s personal.
She lost her grandmother, popular former pub landlady Joan Clinton, to cancer this year and Anna, 29, said: “I really miss my nanna so it will be special to raise money for the charity.
“We did it last year at the show and we raised over £650 in the two days. Georgina and I must have been cutting 30 people’s hair a day – out hands were almost dropping off at the end.
“We had them queuing up and a couple of times we had to ask people to come back later because we were so busy and there were so many waiting but it’s such a good cause.”
The two stylists will set up in the Shrewsbury Shopping Marquee at the Shrewsbury Flower Show where the K2 salon has a stand and although they won’t charge for their services they will ask for a donation to the charity.
Nicholas Pitt, Centre Director of the Darwin, Pride Hill and Riverside Shopping Centres and one of the show’s main sponsors, said: “Anna and Georgina were at the marquee last year and they did a brilliant job.
“The Lingen Davies Appeal is a really important local charity which has done so much to help cancer patients from Shropshire and Mid Wales and it is especially significant for Anna as she lost her grandmother to cancer this year.
“Their efforts proved very popular last year and I’m sure they will again because Anna and Georgina are very talented and it’s a great opportunity to have your hair styled by two of the very best local hairdressers.”
Anna, from Greenfield Gardens, Shrewsbury, added: “My nana used to own the Springfield pub in the town and was very well known but a number of the staff jere at K2 have also had family and friends affected by cancer and that’s why we’re keen to do something to raise money for the appeal.
“We give them goodie bags and they can come along and have their hair cut and styled and all just for a donation to the appeal.”
Anna has appeared on the Clothes Show and was a finalist in the Young Hairdresser of the Year in Birmingham three years in a row while Georgina is just back from a course in advanced colouring and cutting techniques at the Sassoon Academy in London.
Georgina said: “It was mad last year, it was well busy and everyone was watching but it was fuin as well.
“We were so shocked by how many people came and the tent just got so full.
“We both did about 30 cuts each day which takes some doing.”
The Lingen Davies Cancer Relief Fund has recently reached its target of £3.2 million to build a new Cancer Treatment Centre at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and work is starting this month. The appeal’s fund-raising efforts are continuing to equip and run the new centre which is expected to be completed by autumn 2012.
Shrewsbury Shopping are a major sponsor of the Flower Show and their marquee will also feature stands from AT Computers and Currys Digital from the Darwin Centre as well as La Senza.
The Shrewsbury Flower Show – this year is the 124th – is the longest running horticultural show in the world and this year will also feature celebrity chef Gino D’Acampo and BBC gardening guru Chris Beardshaw.
There will also be a host of national and local exhibitors as well as entertainment from the Royal Artillery Motorcycle Display Team and medieval jousters The Knights of the Damned.
