Glenny’s 'World's Greatest Shave' 2025

Our GWSC 'World's Greatest Shave' Fundraising Team are proud to announce that we have raised an incredible $14,988 in donations thus far in 2025 to support The Leukaemia Foundation! Thank-you to all of the amazing members of our #GWSCommunity who supported this special fundraising event!

Kudos to the following GWSC students and teachers who were brave to shave, or lopped their locks, in support of others impacted by blood cancers or related disorders – Vethum ALAHENDRA (8C); Kian ASKARI (8H); Keshini BARNES (7F); Taigen GILBERT (7E); Achintya GOYAL (7E); Vir JAYAPATHI (7P); William JIANG (7M); Milla JIMENEZ (7G); Benson LI (7C); Isaac LOH (7P); Sanuka LIYANAGAMA KANKANAMGE (8C); Niklesh MAKAVITA GAMAGE (8H); Lahiru MANNAPPERUMA (7D); Justin NGO (8M); Yuvan RAJAVEL (8M); Aadit SHAH (7M); Mabel TEO (7B); Lucas WAN (7M); Eshita ALAM (11G); Vivaan ANCHAL (10O); Mavishka EKANAYAKE (11A); Thenara HAPUARACHCHI (10N); Sayyam JAIN (10O); Mukarram MOHAMED JAMEEL (12P); Sanjaya KARIYAWASAM (12O); Tejas NEELI (10N); Samyak PARAKH (10M); Bineth SILVA (11F); Mr Stephen JONES (Teacher) & Mr Mark ROBINSON (Teacher).

We also had 6 GWSC students kindly donate their pony tails to Sustainable Salons, an organisation who create charitable wigs for people who've lost their hair due to various blood cancers and their associated medical treatments. All of the remaining hair that was cut during our 'WGS' event was then collected and also donated to Sustainable Salons to enable them to make 'Hair Booms', which can be used to soak up environmental oil spills and chemical leakages. 

Don't forget that you can still see and also sponsor our GWSC students and staff, who participated in our 2025 ‘World’s Greatest Shave’, on our team fundraising page at the following link –

https://www.worldsgreatestshave.com/fundraisers/GlenWaverleySecondaryCollegeWGS2025 

We had so many fantastic pictures taken by our Tech Crew during this event, that we didn’t have enough space to save them onto this Compass My News Feed post….So, we have saved the ‘Pick o’ the Pics’ in a Google Drive folder at the following link –

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TM6gkTSBTbAdf9HsL0MLA_-3bQrVjmEN

As you can see from these terrific images, they all look so stylish with their new haircuts!

Massive thanks to all of the students and staff from our GWSC 'Fundraising & Community Service' Committee, 'Tech Crew', 'Facilities Team', 'IT/AV Support Office', 'General Office' and 'Health Centre' who were all once again integral in assisting with the organisation, promotion, set-up, running and pack-up of our GWSC 'World's Greatest Shave' event this year. Special thanks also to the 19 teachers and 1 student (OJ Blendz – You are a STAR!) who kindly volunteered as part-time shearer's, backyard barbers, wannabe Edward Scissorhands stylists and coloured hair spray consultants throughout our special 'WGS' fundraising event. It was so amazing to see so many people, both young and older(ish), from our college community coming together to help combat blood cancer and related disorders.

It would also be absolutely brilliant if many more members of our generous #GWSCommunity could sponsor our brave shaver's and donate to their online fundraising pages, if you are able and would like to, especially those in our GWSC 'World's Greatest Shave' team who have yet to meet their fundraising targets....

Thanks in advance for your continued support and encouragement, may you all have a fantastic day!

Kind Regards,

Mr Mark Robinson on behalf of our 2025 GWSC 'World's Greatest Shave' Fundraising Team.....