MOTHER of two Alison Wright is inviting people to support her bid to opt for a ‘great new look’ in her battle to beat cancer.

Alison, 50, has undergone two successful operations to remove the cancer after discovering a lump in her breast this summer.

She is due to begin a course of chemotherapy this week to ensure there are no remaining cancer cells in her body, followed by radiotherapy treatment.

Alison, from Holmes Chapel, has been told her hair will fall out as a result of the chemotherapy, and decided to have it shaved off rather than watch it come out.

She wanted the experience to be a positive one, and is to have her hair shaved off to raise money for 1st Holmes Chapel Scouts and the Macmillan Cancer Resource Centre at Macclesfield Hospital.

Alison is a Cub Scout leader with the Scout group and a cover manager at Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School, where her children, Callum, 18, and Lizzy, 15, are studying for their A levels and GCSEs.

She is hoping to raise £200 from the headshave, which will be divided between the Scouts’ fundraising for a climbing wall and the cancer centre.

Alison is to have her hair shaved off at the Scout headquarters at Parkway in Holmes Chapel next Tuesday, December 16, at 8pm, six days after being due to start her chemotherapy.

The charity event coincides with the Scout Group’s Christmas celebrations, which will include carol singing by Cub Scouts at the Bernard Court sheltered housing complex in Holmes Chapel that evening.

Alison is inviting people to come along to the Scout group HQ on the 16th to help her “celebrate the next stage of my journey to beat cancer” and to raise as much money as possible.

“There will be mulled wine, mince pies, Christmas music, fun, laughter and a great new look for me,” she said.

Alison is a member of the Slimming World group at Holmes Chapel, through which she has lost almost four stones, which she said made it easier to locate the lump, which she discovered in July.

She was voted Woman of the Year at the Slimming World group, and contacted the Guardian to encourage more women to check themselves for lumps and to seek help early, as she did.

She said: “I thought, this lump should not be there, and although it was a shock to be told it was cancerous I am a logical and practical person, and thought – what’s the next step, and is there anything I can do?

“You just have to get on with it, and I have had a huge amount of support from everyone, including family and friends.”

A wig supplied by Discretion of Sandbach will create Alison’s ‘new look’, and the charity head shave is to be carried out by Chris Appleton, the owner of Appleton’s Hairdressing in Holmes Chapel.

Donations to the fundraising event can be left at the Print Room in Church Walk, Holmes Chapel.