It has taken Brandon Richards five years to grow and maintain his dreadlocks but he’s about to lose them all for charity at the hands of a Melton dog groomer.
The 22-year-old Gisborne plumber is shedding his mane in a bid to raise at least $5000 for Muscular Dystrophy Australia – with more than $4000 already raised last week.
Hair of the Dog groomers in Melton pledged to donate a dollar from each appointment to the charity and the business offered to groom Brandon as well, rounding out their fundraising effort to $400.
Brandon will go under the shears at the Dreadlocks for Dystrophy event he is hosting at a camp in Rowsley on September 24 for youth living with the illness. He hopes the funds he raises will help those affected to buy equipment and help with other needs.
Brandon lost his cousin Andrew to the disease in 2002.
“Andrew was in a wheelchair from the age of 14 and while there are lots of different forms of the disease, Andrew had Duchenne muscular dystrophy, which moved very fast,” he said.
Brandon said he has some reservations about shaving his locks but is looking forward to the change.
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