I am a Brave Shaver
The London Policing College
We offer a range of Internationally acclaimed programmes, workshops and courses which we have developed.
London Policing College would like to highlight the bravery of Bop Dhillon who is the sister of our associate Johnny Mahil
She has very bravely shaved off her hair to raise money and has written a short brief as to what motivated her. If you are able we would ask for a small contribution to someone who is making a difference !
?For me, and as a primary school teacher, it’s particularly about the children.??The children that lose a parent and the emotional roller coaster that follows.??There’s very little out there that specialises in childhood bereavement but when my niece lost her father at the age of fourteen (although not to cancer), Macmillan were there to support her.??The children that, before their lives have even begun, get diagnosed with cancer, which potentially has a longer-term detrimental impact upon them meeting their developmental milestones which in turn influence their future life chances – and that’s presuming they all win their enormous battles.??I know Macmillan will be there.??There to hold a hand.??To help make sense of each unique journey.?
Reactions from donors, mainly friends and family, ranged from ‘Wow! Brave!’ to ‘So proud of you!’??I was often asked how I was feeling as the impending shave day loomed ever closer.??In all honesty, I was actually okay with it.??I’d made my peace.??I figured I had thus far been blessed with a grand mop of hair and envisioned it sprouting back as it does in the playdough hair salon when the plastic handle is turned (ok some of you may be too young to remember the playdough hair salon or are too coy to admit it was always on your list to Santa!).?
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The day arrived. It hit me.??What was I doing???Why had my foresight abandoned me???I faced potential ridicule in the months to come looking like ET or Captain T Kirk on the Starship Enterprise!??What if I had a strange shaped head???What if I had sticky out ears and would look like a Teletubby???Suddenly, it was too late.??As my niece clasped hold of the trimmer and positioned it at my hairline above my forehead, she cast me an evil grin through the mirror.??My life as a baldy flashed before me!??Then, twenty minutes later it was done.??I actually felt relieved.??
My hair will be donated to The Princess Trust to make a wig for a child who needs their confidence and self-esteem restored due to hair loss, just as a lion needs his mane.??I like to think of a wig representing each life that comes back from the brink and overcomes their illness, wins their fight.??What have I lost???Nothing.??My hair will grow back, probably greyer than ever, and I’ll have had a fantastic experience, lots of laughs and some swish new headgear.??But most of all, I will have made a difference, no matter how small on the grand scale of things.?
As I made breakfast for my family the following morning, my niece doubled over with laughter quipping that “an egg head is boiling my eggs!”??But despite that, and plenty more where that came from, I’m owning the new look, though it can get a little chilly.??And obviously, with the aim of directing you to the website to donate some of your hard earned cash, you can only view me sporting my stubbly noggin via the link below.?
Bop Dhillon?