The Little Princess Trust has provided more than 15,000 wigs to children and young people with hair loss. They have also invested £23 million in ground-breaking childhood cancer research.
The Little Princess Trust gives Hair and Hope to children and young people by providing wigs and funding vital research into childhood cancers. The charity provides more than 2,000 free, real hair wigs every year to young people, up to the age of 24, who have lost their own hair through cancer treatment or due to other conditions such as Alopecia.
The Little Princess Trust was set up in Hereford in 2005 in memory of Hannah Tarplee. A year earlier, she had been diagnosed with a Wilms Tumour and the loss of her hair was especially traumatic. Her parents felt the most fitting tribute to the five-year-old would be a charity dedicated to providing wigs to children who had lost their own hair through cancer treatment and other conditions.
The Little Princess Trust was born, and the charity has now provided wigs to more than 15,000 young people of all genders. The charity is also one of the largest charity funders of childhood cancer research in the UK and since 2016 has committed more than £20 million to projects focused on finding kinder and more effective treatments for childhood cancers.
