A KIND-HEARTED eight-year-old has donated her hair to a charity that helps children with cancer – in what is the latest in a series of fundraising ventures by the youngster.

Adeline-Rae Snowden, known as Addie, from Northallerton, was inspired to cut off her hair for The Little Princess Trust, which provides real hair wigs to children in the UK who have lost their own through cancer treatment.

The Brompton Primary School pupil heard about the charity after singer Jessie J shaved her hair for the charity on Children in Need in 2013, which left a lasting impression on Addie.

The Little Princess Trust charity was set up several years ago by the parents of a girl who had cancer and passed away in 2005. They had discovered it difficult finding high quality wigs for children, but discovered they could help children through the trauma of losing their hair.

The youngster initially intended to shave all her hair off to donate to the trust, but after looking into it found you could donate a minimum of about nine inches of hair.

Addie’s mother, Jemma, said: “She had wanted to shave her hair off ever since Jessie J cut her hair for Children in Need. She was about five or six when she first asked me to let her shave her hair off to make a wig for somebody and begged and begged.

“Then the hairdresser came around recently to trim her hair before she goes back to school. We hadn’t planned to do it then. We were arguing and she said; “I don’t need all this hair. It will grow again and then I can donate it to someone else”.

“When it was done I wasn’t so sure at first, but she was absolutely chuffed to bits with it. She can’t wait to send it off to the charity now.”

It isn’t the first good cause the youngster has helped.

Earlier this year she spent many hours raising sponsorship for a Race for Life event organised at her school. After contacting family, friends and people living near her home, she managed to raise £100 and was determined to complete the race for the sponsorship.

She also made and sold bracelets for 20p each so she could donate sponsorship money to one of her mother’s friends, Kendra King, who lost her adult son, Ashley, to kidney disease.

Mrs King is walking the Glasgow seven mile bridge walk for Kidney Research on September 20 and Addie raised £8 by selling bracelets.