Do it for the kids!

On Friday, I shaved my head in support of kids with cancer. Was a bit scary, but loads of fun!

My hair is being donated to a charity that makes wigs for kids with cancer, and I'm hoping some of you guys are inspired to make a small donation to Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). It's a world-class operational hospital and research institution - so it does a lot of good for individual kids and families, and for paediatric medicine as a whole. It is the only specialist biomedical research center for pediatrics, the largest center in the UK for children with heart or brain problems and the largest center in Europe for children with cancer.

I support these types of institutions because they attract the best and the brightest, so donations are well-spent and allocated to the greatest need. (This is as opposed to single-issue charities which can sometimes become limited by their original mandates.) GOSH has been growing for 150 years now, so I have confidence that donations are investments in an asset that will keep providing benefits to kids.

I've done this without trying to raise "sponsorship" in advance, simply because I believe in it and I think people will donate for the right reasons. If you've thought of giving money to a charity but haven't gotten around to it, or are still looking for a suitable charity, you can trust me that your money will be put to very good use here. And Morgan Stanley is match funding, so they'll put a pound in for every pound you do.

Donate at http://saintsal.com/gosh

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

[baldnbearded]

I would have kept the beard!

[schulz1]

Well done mate!

[JajinkaB123]

awesome!!!! I want to cut and donate my hair soon :) and I was thinking about shaving it all off, maybe raise some money etc. ...

my grandfather died even before I was born because of cancer :(

[cabo02]

Thats cool dude. I had my friends shave my head one time just cause i was drunk.

[oOliviOo]

Awww... The sweetest thing to do. :)

[Graydon902]

You look WAY better with your hair shaved off! You are SO adorable!!!