{"id":791590,"date":"2026-10-04T10:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T10:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/791590\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T10:36:08","slug":"warrington-teen-to-shave-head-to-support-mum-with-stage-4-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/791590\/","title":{"rendered":"Warrington teen to shave head to support mum with stage 4 cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 13-year-old boy is having his head shaved to raise money for a hospice which is supporting his mum, who has stage four cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Henry, from Warrington, Cheshire, decided he wanted to give back to St Rocco&#8217;s Hospice in the town, which has been providing palliative care and support to his mum Sarah, 43, after she was diagnosed with bowel cancer about 18 months ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Henry said: &#8220;She has had multiple operations which were unsuccessful and she is now on palliative treatment to prolong her life. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In the last few months St Rocco&#8217;s has helped my mum to come to turns with this and will be more help in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;With this in mind I want to raise money to help support them in continuing to provide the support and care to others like they have my mum.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sarah said she was &#8220;immensely proud of what he has achieved&#8221;, describing Henry as &#8220;an amazing boy&#8221; and &#8220;such a caring loving young man&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s a great help at home &#8211; he is classed as a young carer because he does help me at times when I&#8217;m not feeling great,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She described Henry as a &#8220;larger than life character&#8221; who &#8220;makes me laugh every day&#8221; which &#8220;lightens the mood a lot&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 13-year-old boy is having his head shaved to raise money for a hospice which is supporting his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-791590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}