A GENEROUS young girl had 10 inches of her hair cut so she could donate it to a charity which makes wigs for children with cancer.

Ellie Glendenning, from Blunsdon St Andrew, will send the hair to the Little Princess Trust.

The seven-year-old grew her hair for months to have most of it chopped off for charity.

Her grandmother Julie Hennessy explained how her granddaughter learned about the Trust.

She said: “A good friend of mine called Julie Allan is terminally ill with ovarian cancer and a few weeks ago, before she had chemotherapy and lost all her hair, she said she would get it cut and donate the hair to the Little Princess Trust.

“I hadn’t heard of the charity before but I thought it was wonderful. When I was telling Ellie about it, she asked ‘can I send my hair to them?’

“I was over the moon. It’s a big thing for a little girl to do and I think it’s so lovely for the children she’s helping.”

Ellie had her locks lopped off oat Knock-Em-Dead hairdressers in Swindon.

Julie, from Purton, added: “She wasn’t nervous, she absolutely loved it, she told her friends at school all about it. “It’s good to get them into the world of getting pleasure from giving, and she looks so grown up now.”

Ellie goes to Tadpole Village School and enjoys gymnastics.

The Little Princess Trust provides free real hair wigs to boys and girls across the UK and Ireland that have sadly lost their own hair due to cancer treatment and other illnesses like alopecia. The charity has given away 5,000 real hair wigs to sick children since it launched.