Hairdressers Pull Out All The Stops
3/7/2008
A team of talented stylists are set to swap their salon for a hospital next week when they pull out all the stops to give cancer patients a treat.
The team, from Contemporary Stokesley, will spend the day at the Holistic Cancer Care Centre at Middlesbrough’s James Cook University Hospital on Friday, February 15th, 2008.
As well as using their hairstyling talents to give patients a treat, the Stokesley team will also be on tea and coffee making duty and will staff the centre’s charity gift shop.
They came up with the idea of doing something to support the centre - which provides a range of therapies to cancer patients alongside their medical treatment - following a fundraising ball held last year by Teesside businessman Steven Bell.
Steven is patron of the charity; Contemporary Stokesley is owned and managed by his wife Dawn and daughter Kate and friend lisa.
“We wanted to be able to do something nice for the patients at the centre, something to give them a lift and make them feel good so we came up with the idea of offering them a pamper session,” said Kate.
“The team will spend the day there, the stylists and assistants will work their magic with blow dries and pin ups for the patients, we’ll make the tea and coffee and we’ll also staff the charity shop.
“The work the centre does in helping patients at such a difficult time of their lives is priceless and if we can do something to support that, then we will.”
Contemporary Stokesley is based at 5 High Street in the market town. It is staffed by a team of nine who will all do their bit to support the centre on February 15th.
The Holistic Cancer Care Centre opened in 2003 in the grounds of the Middlesbrough hospital. It offers free therapies including acupuncture, homeopathy and aromatherapy to cancer patients at James Cook by trained practitioners as well as The Bra Clinic which offers practical advice after surgery to breast cancer patients and Headstrong, a service to help those with hair loss after chemotherapy.
The centre is funded entirely by charitable donations.
