Will you take the Hair with Heart challenge and change lives?
Become a Hair Hero. Show you care.
Join the Hair with Heart challenge and fundraise to help change a child’s life by giving the help that no one else is able to give.
Hold a Hair Hero event - chop your locks, shave your head, or colour your hair - it's up to you!
If you have long hair, your lovely locks can be turned into wigs for people who’ve lost their hair from cancer, alopecia or other medical conditions. And when you get your friends and family to sponsor your chop, you’ll raise funds that will transform kids’ lives.
Paige Lawford just donated $22.58- Sandy Jones just donated $33.15
- Janani Kirirajan just donated $11.65
- Anonymous just donated $22.58
- Anonymous just donated $58
- Grandma just donated $211
Karen just donated $54.12- Anonymous just donated $22.58
- Tenneale Craker just donated $106.12
- Anonymous just donated $33.15
- Taneille just donated $62.57
- GG and Pop just donated $106.12
Lylah Carpenter just donated $11.65- Ethnic Threads just donated $25
- Anonymous just donated $20
Mum just donated $64.67- Anonymous just donated $33.15
- Cam just donated $50
- Anonymous just donated $11.65
- Taylah A just donated $40
By joining Hair with Heart, you'll be part of something BIG. Last year*
172,411
Kids were supported by Variety
$13,240,552
provided through grants and programs to kids in need
896
kilograms of hair donated through Hair with Heart
5,889
People donated their hair
*31 October 2023 - 30 September 2024
How it works
Sign up
You can do it solo, with a buddy or even create a squad with all your pals. Once you raise your first $25, you'll receive a welcome pack full of useful items to support your Hair Hero event.
Spread the word
Get on your favourite social media. Tell everyone you're taking the Hair with Heart challenge. And let them know they can donate on your personal fundraising page.
Have your Hair Hero event
Chop your hair, colour your hair, or shave your head. The money you raise will help give all Aussie kids a fair go in life! If you have long locks, you can also donate your hair. Your hair donation will change the life of someone living with medical hair loss.
What happens next?
After your Hair Hero event
If have long locks and can donate your hair, please send it to us at Variety - The Children's Charity. Volunteers will unpack and sort your hair. Untreated hair over 35cm will be used to make specialised wigs for people living with medical hair loss. If your hair is shorter, chemically straightened or coloured, then not to worry - it will not go to waste! See our FAQs for how your hair can make a difference.
More wigs for more kids
By fundraising or donating you'll help fund Variety's wig grant program. Wig grants help kids access a custom-made wig if they've lost their hair due to a medical condition. Every dollar donated can help fund a medical-grade wig for kids experiencing permanent hair loss.
Provide help that no-one else can give
The money you raise with your Hair with Heart challenge event (chop, colour or shave) will help fund Variety’s other grants and programs too. You can help change the lives of kids who are sick, living with a disability or experiencing disadvantage.
You’ll help kids like Hannah
At just four years of age, Hannah started getting bald patches. Soon after, she was diagnosed with the lifelong condition alopecia areata, which causes hair loss.
One of the most difficult things for Hannah was being called names or teased. She was nervous the teasing would get worse at high school.
By donating their hair and raising money through Hair with Heart, people like you have changed Hannah’s life. She received a custom-made wig to wear at school – and her confidence grew and grew.
Hannah, now 17, has settled into her new school and made lots of new friends. She loves playing netball, dancing and being on stage. Happy and outgoing, she doesn’t feel the need to wear her wig every day.
Will you help give a life-changing wig to another kid like Hannah?
Need some inspo? Check out these Hair Heroes!!
Chelsea, VIC
“She's so blessed to have beautiful hair and we don't take it for granted. We tell her there are some girls who don't have beautiful hair and need help. So, we decided to grow her hair until it was long enough to donate.”
Caleb, QLD
“I had always had in mind that when I wanted a change, I'd like to donate my hair. Mum & I contacted a few organisations, and we had a reply from Variety the same day. The email made my decision easy. I knew my hair would not go to waste.”
Phuong, NSW
“I am extremely grateful and have grown to appreciate my hair, but there are children who are not able to or have lost their hair due to a medical conditions or other circumstances. For this reason, I would like a child to have this gift.”
Gursimrat, SA
“I am donating my hair on my 14th birthday. I feel very happy that my hair will make a little difference to someone else’s life. Thank you, Variety - the Children's Charity.”
