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At Hair Traders we like to do our bit to support charities that add to the quality of everyones lives.

We believe that we are fortunate to live in a country that has much to offer everyone and with that comes a responsibility to support those less fortunate than ourselves.

Recent efforts have included supporting the breast cancer foundation through a 'Girls Night In' function held at Toshiba's head office in North Ryde, Tim (Hair Traders's owner) participating in the 100 kilometre Oxfam Trailwalker, raising money for the Victorian bush fire victims and supporting head office staff at Konica Minolta with Shave for a Cure.

Oxfam Trailwalker

On August 29th 2008 Tim and a team of 3 other guys set out on the Oxfam Trailwalker. This is Oxfam's major fundraiser and consists of teams of 4 competing in a 100 kilometre walk. The walk went from Hawsbury River to Cremorne and we were given 48 hours to complete it. We managed to finish in 28 hours and 6 minutes going non stop except for 10-15 minute breaks at each checkpoint.

If you're ever considering doing it here is a brief description of what it is like... "The Tools completed Trailwalker today and heres a very brief description of what its like to do Trailwalker. Walk up and down lots of hills, stairs, rocks and slippery stuff and day then do it again in complete darkness. Keep walking until you find out that your tougher than you knew, then keep walking more till you have walked 100k's."

THe Glide Hair Tools TeamLeft to right: Tim MacKellar (Hair Traders), Remo Cignetti (Glide Hair Tools), Colin DeCosta (Mosman Council) & Kevin DeCosta.

Alopecia is a hair loss problem that can afflict anyone.The AAAF has been established as a support mechanism for people suffering this affliction.It is also seeking donations of hair so hair pieces can be made for people with this problem.For more information you can go to their website:-www.aaaf.com.au To see the pdf flyer on how to cut you hair to donate it click on the link below.Alopecia pdf flyer

The willing participants at Konica Minolta who we shaved to help their efforts in raising much needed funds for leukeamia research.Friday 13 March 2009

Participating in World's Greatest Shave for a Cure at Macquarie Centre

Members of the Hair Traders team helped out the 2010 Shave for a Cure activities at Macquarie Centre & also at the offices of Janssen-Cilag (a subsiduary of Johnson & Johnson) on 26th March, 2010.The team at Janssen-Cilag raised over $6,000 for the Leukaemia Foundation.  Tim & Danni colouring the team at Janssen-Cilag to help raise much needed funding into leukaemia research 

 Hair Traders have also been involved with the staff at Toshiba in 2008, 2009 & 2010 in their fund raising activities for womans breat cancer research through their 'Girls Night In' function at the offices in North Ryde.The three functions have raised close to $37,000 for breast cancer research and were glad to have been able to assist them in achieving this result.

Put Your Old Phone to Work Again... Hair Traders are now a collection point for your old mobile phones as part of their support for the Sony Foundation's initiative to raise funds for CanTeen Youth Centres.The target is to raise $15 million dollars to build specialised youth cancer centres in Australia.Click here to read more  So far over 150 phones have been collected for recycling for CanTeen.