Haircuts 4 Homeless

Everyone knows the feeling when you get a haircut; it’s a con dence booster, especially if it’s been a while.

I’m Jackie McColl, Team leader for the

Haircuts 4 Homeless charity in the

Manchester area.

Haircuts 4 Homeless has been putting smiles on faces of the less fortunate since 2014 when it was founded by veteran hairdresser Stewart Roberts in

Romford. I was honoured to be appointed

Team leader for Manchester three years ago when the charity expanded to the north of England.

There are over 60 projects supported by over 600 volunteer hairdressers and barbers nationwide. We use our hairdressing talents to make a di erence. I can de nitely say that they are the most satisfying haircuts I do. To see and feel the di erence a haircut can make, engaging and building trust, chatting and having eye contact and giving them some dignity and con dence back - it’s amazing. We work in a variety of projects, shelters and drop in centres for rough sleepers or live-in families who receive support in getting o the streets into their own accommodation. We’ve given over 40,000 free haircuts so far! Unfortunately, due to the pandemic, we lost our funding when we couldn’t provide our services. It feels like we are rebuilding and starting again but we will de nitely be bigger and stronger as we are inundated with requests from projects that we never knew existed. We need more volunteers to help out in the projects. Quali ed hairstylists can email: info@haircuts4homeless.com The charity has recently started a crowd funder to raise funds to publish a beautiful high quality desk book which captures amazing images of the work we do. All pro ts from the book will help fund the charity to carry on providing our much needed service. “It’s not just a haircut, it’s so much more than that.”

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