Charlie Tillotson gave up her locks for the cause (Picture: SWNS)

A real-life Rapunzel has lopped off her hair so it can be used to make wigs for children suffering with cancer.

Six-year-old Charlie Tilloston, of Sidmouth in Devon, did away with 2ft of her golden locks to raise more than £1,400 for charity.

The young fundraiser told her dad she wanted to give up the hair she had spent years growing – never having even a trim – in order to help cancer sufferers after watching a television documentary.

Her hair was chopped off in at a packed-out salon in Devon (Picture: SWNS)

Mr Tilloston told the Sidmouth Herald: ‘She came up to me a couple of weeks later and said, “daddy, would you mind if I had all my hair cut off for children with cancer?”




‘I welled up.’

The community has bought Charlie a dress and a tiara to wear at this year’s Sidmouth Carnival.

The act of kindness raised more than £1,400 for Children with Cancer UK (Picture: SWNS)

The Little Princess Trust will now send the hair to China to be made into a wig.

It will return to the UK and be given to boy or girl going through cancer treatment.