Free haircuts for pupils going back-to-school in Yorkshire to help families struggling with cost of living crisis

A hairdresser in Yorkshire is offering free back-to-school haircuts for families who can't afford it.

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00:00 So what gave you the idea to give school children free cuts before they start back?

00:05 Cost of living crisis and uniforms and just because they can't afford the hair cutting

00:13 and parents are cutting it a lot more and I think it's nice for them to get a treat

00:18 and have a hairdresser do it.

00:21 Have you had many people take you up on the offer?

00:24 Yeah, I've had quite a few. Yeah, I've got a few booked in but I want more.

00:29 And how's it make people feel, you know, getting their hair done for the new school year?

00:33 Oh, I think it's nice. Nice cut and blow drying. I think it's nice. Yeah.

00:40 I know you're finding a lot of people just can't afford it anymore.

00:43 Yeah, yeah, definitely. We're cost of living and uniform and I'm finding on Facebook that

00:48 people are putting more and more that they have no money for uniforms and no money for this and

00:54 that so the hair just gets forgotten about, you know. And what do people do to find out more

01:01 information about what you're doing? I've just shared it around Facebook. They can contact me

01:06 on my email or my phone number. But I've shared the post on Facebook. It's gone quite far to be

01:13 fair. I've got someone coming from Sheffield for it doing. So yeah, yeah, but I've still got some

01:20 spaces. Yeah.