SuperDaisy
supporting the Little Princess Trust in raising awareness and funding.
Profit from every copy of SuperDaisy sold goes directly to the Little Princess Trust.
About the Little Princess Trust
The Little Princess Trust was established in 2006 by the parents of Hannah Tarplee, their friends and staff from Hereford Cathedral Junior School.
In 2004 Hannah was diagnosed with a Wilms tumour. Hannah loved her hair and losing it was very traumatic for her. Her parents, Wendy and Simon, searched high and low to find a wig suitable for Hannah during her treatment. When they found one, it had a hugely positive effect on Hannah.
Tragically, Hannah passed away in 2005 and with so many kind offers of financial and practical help, Wendy and Simon felt the most fitting tribute would be to launch a charity dedicated to providing real hair wigs for children and young people.
Since then, The Little Princess Trust has provided more than 12,000 real hair wigs to children and young people, aged up to 24, across the UK and Ireland. The charity is now in the early stages of offering their free service in other areas of Europe.
The Little Princess Trust receives thousands of hair donations each year. It can take up to 16 individual hair donations to make a single wig while it costs the charity, on average, £550 to provide one wig to each child or young person. These wigs are provided for free to children suffering hair loss due to cancer treatment or other medical conditions.
(Right to left) Wendy Tarplee-Morris, founder of the Little Princess Trust, Illustrator - Zoe Waring, Author - Rebecca Smith and Phil Brace Chief Executive of the Little Princess Trust
In 2016, thanks to the huge efforts of its family of supporters, The Little Princess Trust was able to start funding pioneering academics institutions leading the way in researching kinder and more effective treatments for all paediatric cancers. It is an area where there is so much work which desperately needs investment. The Little Princess Trust has now committed more than £20million across 93 projects covering a range of childhood cancers.
The Little Princess Trust continues to strive to improve patient outcomes through access to new treatments through clinical trials as well as improving existing treatments. The charity works with others to identify innovative and impactful ways to improve survival rates and reduce the effects of treatment. One of the aims of the charity, while working alongside CCLG (the Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group), is to invest in the right areas to fill some of the funding gaps.
