A CHILLY Christmas awaits a Wellington woman who is having her 22 inches of blonde hair shaved for charity.

Jennie Liddel (pictured), who works in Odette’s Tearoom, will lose her golden locks in the town’s Vintage Inn public house at 8 pm on Christmas Eve.

She is hoping to raise £1,000 for the Make A Wish Foundation, which works with children with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions.

The charity says making a wish come true can inspire a child to believe that anything is possible and helps to restore some of the childhood they missed out on because treatment for their condition interrupted school or typical family activities.

Jennie, who has previously supported Wellington dementia charity Reminiscence Learning by swimming the equivalent of the English Channel and back, will see her hair cut to grade three length - ‘practically bald’, as she says.

She is also giving her blonde hair to the Little Princes Trust, which makes wigs for children who have lost their own hair due to cancer treatment and other conditions.

It costs the trust £550 to make one wig and Jennie wants to be able to fund at least one wig for it before giving the foundation the rest of the money she raises.

Donation stations for Jennie’s head shave have been set up in Odette’s Tearoom, The Vintage Inn, and Nurtured by Nature.