A FRIEND of cancer patient Dawn Watts is planning to get her hair shaved off to help fund complementary treatment at a Spanish clinic.

Lisa Harrison has already raised more than £500 in sponsorship, with a target of £1,500.

She said both she and Dawn would be getting their heads shaved on October 1 at a fundraising afternoon being held at Acorn Rugby Club, which would also feature games, a bouncy castle, a reptile roadshow and a barbecue.

Lisa, who can be sponsored by going to www.youcaring.com/dawnwatts-929469, said she would be donating her long locks of hair to the Little Princess Trust, which uses real hair to make wigs for children who lose their hair through cancer treatment.

Meanwhile, another of Dawn’s friends, Gail Pountain, has raised £1,500 for her through a sky dive from a plane at 10,000 feet.

Gail, 51, of Holgate, said she was ‘very scared’ before the jump at Peterlee, in County Durham, but it was worth it to help her friend.

Dawn, 52, of Copmanthorpe, who reached the finals of last year’s York Community Pride Awards after raising £32,500 for York Against Cancer and other charities, revealed in August she was launching another appeal to help fund complementary treatment for herself in Spain.

She said she had found a clinic near Marbella which offered a bespoke complementary treatment aimed at promoting the body’s own immune system to tackle the illness.

Her husband Stuart said yesterday that fundraising was going well, with the total reaching about £18,000 but he was expecting the costs of treatment to go up following a recent diagnosis of a tumour behind an eye.

“She has had radiotherapy this week and will be due to start chemotherapy in a week or so’s time,” he said.

“We will need the doctors to give us the go-ahead to go out to Spain and that is likely to be when the chemo has ended, so late October at a guess.”