Alnwick firefighter volunteers for fund-raising head shave to help charity
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Georgina Tetley-Paul, of Lindisfarne Road, is raising funds for the Fire Fighters Charity which, as with many charities, is facing financial uncertainty.
“It’s not an experience I'm particularly looking forward to if I'm honest,” she admits, “but desperate times call for desperate measures, and the more donations I can raise the more worthwhile it will be.”
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Hide AdHer wife, Alice, has been given the role of performing the task on Friday, May 8.
“It’s all coming off,” said Georgina. “There will be shaving cream and a razor, not just a close crop.”
The Fire Fighters Charity provides facilities and services to firefighting personnel who have been traumatised psychologically or physically be the job they do and the horrors they have seen.
It has three state-of-the-art centres around the country.
Georgina said: “It doesn’t get any government funding so has to raise several million pounds a year to keep the facilities going.
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Hide Ad“Now we’re in a situation where a lot of charities are really struggling to find the support they would normally get so the charity has put together the Fire Family Challenge to encourage to people to come up with fund-raising ideas.”
Georgina has been a retained member of Alnwick fire crew for a year.
“It’s been good,” she said. “We’ve had a quiet spell recently with lockdown but we would normally have incidents most days.”
To donate, visit https://justgiving.com/fundraising/georgina-tetley-paul