28 March 2024

Trevor Sorbie and MyNewHair celebrate a Decade of Putting Smiles on Beautiful Faces

MyNewHair is a pioneering, not-for-profit organization which offers a wig customizing service for people suffering from cancer and medical hair loss. Launched by Trevor Sorbie, the charity is celebrating its 10th anniversary!

MyNewHair welcomes hair professionals new to this area of work by providing responsible, nurse-led training and technical support building up a network of salons and professionals able to provide a wig customising service for people suffering from cancer and medical hair loss, with Trevor at the centre of it all. Currently, there are approximately 900 hair professionals, including freelance and mobile hairdressers, and almost 800 salons across the UK and Ireland in the mynewhair network.

The charity has attracted many big names in the hairdressing industry including Darren Stuart from East Boldon’s Tribeca Hair Design, Tyne and Wear. Darren is a big part of mynewhair, not only as a salon and a Trustee but also as one of the trainers, who educates the network of salons and stylists. He has been a fundamental part of the charity’s operation since the early days, joining forces with Trevor Sorbie in 2006. As well as customizing wigs for clients, he delivers the seminars at L’Oréal along with Trevor and other members of the charity each month. Darren says: “I think every woman suffering from hair loss should be given access to a MyNewHair salon via hospitals. The information should be readily available through hospitals for them to access the service. All the mynewhair salons just want to help hair loss sufferers feel as normal as possible.” 

The MyNewHair seminars held for the salons are not your average educational classes because of the amount of varying expertise that is brought together. The seminars cover wig manufacture, organic products for hair in recovery, as well as communication skills. This element of the seminar is led by Joanne Atkinson and Ann Fox who are both experts in their medical fields and Trustees for the charity. They deliver a very important aspect of the training focusing on how to deal with vulnerable people and also aid the stylists to build their own personal resilience when they are dealing with the emotional burden. The support the charity offers to both the client and the stylist is totally unique.

As MyNewHair celebrates its 10th anniversary this year and continues to grow in popularity and demand it also has big ambitions, planning to go global next year. Trevor Sorbie MBE says: “In the 10 years that the charity has been going our team and myself have achieved goals beyond our expectations. The Department of Health has supported us, along with Gordon Brown when he was Prime Minister, who gave the charity a substantial grant for us to continue our work. Thanks to L’Oréal’s continued support we hope to take this concept internationally. This is our vision.

www.mynewhair.org

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