4myhead.com started designing headscarves, hats and turbans in 2006 in Buckinghamshire. You can read about our history and the feedback we have received from customers, hospitals and cancer charities. We hope you will recommend this site to others. Please continue to provide us with valuable feedback. We are pleased to visit customers in Beaconsfield, Gerrards Cross, High Wycombe, South Bucks, Windsor and Maidenhead areas.
April 2012. Please join us and the students of Beaconsfield High School at their Vanity Fair Fashion Show. The show is Wednesday 18th April at 730pm at Wattleton Road, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire HP9 1RR. Tickets which are just £3 are available from Beaconsfield High School reception or on the door on the 18th. The students will be modeling their hat designs as well as the older students showing their work. This event is all about celebrating students work and we would like you to come and join us. Beaconfield High School is using this event to raised money for the Teenage Cancer Trust. You can read more about our hat design competition on our Teens page.
April 2012. We support the Oxfam The Big Bra Hunt. Please donate your bras to Oxfam to support their work particularly in Senegal. We are supporting this as we launch a selection of Triumph sports bras and our new sports blog.
March 2012. We have launched our new Triumph sports bra collection. See our Jashcroft site to view the styles and sizes available.
February 2012. An exciting month with trips to Harrods, the Parapet, Windsor, Beaconsfield High School and the Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead, London. See our new website for further details. Jashcroft.co.uk
January 2012. Reviewing 2011, we added a new extension to our headwear in our Teens section. This follows the success of our first Beaconsfield High School hat design competition for Teenage Cancer Trust. In addition to the winning hats designed by the students being sold in aid of the charity, we also have a selection of hats chosen by teenagers. We continue to develop our ideas and selection of useful products. In 2011, we became stockists of the Lepel Athena soft non-wired bra. Our newest product is our Wynter cape. Our first designs match one of our Kelly fabulous baker boy hats and two designs match our gorgeous Liberty headscarves. The cape shawls are suitable to wear indoors or outdoors for extra warmth. We also introduced our Cheryl silk scarves, in pink, lilac and blue. During September, we were once again pleased to support the Lymphoma Association with a wide selection of purple gifts including our Capry headscarves and our new silk scarves. It was an extremely busy summer as we attended 11 Race for Life events this summer, with our hats and scarves being sold, in aid of Cancer Research UK. With our wonderful British seamstresses, we introduced more gorgeous Liberty print headscarves, our new fabulous Kelly baker boy hats, gorgeous Cheryl silk scarves and most recently, our Wynter cape.
December 2011. We have a large selection of hats designed by Jo and made by her British seamstresses. If you are looking for a gift this Christmas for a friend or relative who has cancer, you may wish to choose one of our lovely Liberty print headscarves. Alternatively, with the cold snap, either our wool blend fabulous Kelly baker boy hats or our faux fur fleece hats provide a great treat that can be worn for many years. This year we introduced the Wynter wool blend cape, to provide a easy to wear stylish and warm cape for inside or to add a lightweight layer when going out. Finally, we have gorgeous silk scarves. Both our loop silk scarves in hot pink, shimmering lilac and floral blue. Also we have introduced a range of 'pre worn' silk scarves, at the time of writing we had Jaegar silk scarves for sale. See Jashcroft.co.uk for the full range of Christmas gift ideas.
November 2011. You can try on our hats at the Beaconsfield High School Christmas Fair on Saturday 19th from 10am til 2pm. We will have our fabulous baker boy hats, cute berets and warm faux fur and fleece hats. We will also have the Lepel soft non wired bras and our new winter wool cape.
November will be a busy month with Jo at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, St Luke's Cancer Centre in Guildford, the Beaconsfield High School Christmas Fair, Macmillan Cancer Centre at the Royal Free Hospital, Welwyn Garden City and Reading with Breast Cancer Care. For more information, please contact us on our new website or ring 07505 028 099.
October 2011. Breast Cancer awareness month. We have an advertisement in the October pink issue of Good Housekeeping which has a 9 page section on beating breast cancer. Jo enjoyed a great visit at the Vicki Adkins Breast Unit, Queen Elizabeth II hospital, Welwyn Garden City, on Thursday 13th October with the Breast Cancer Care HeadStrong team. For more information, see our page on breast cancer charities and support groups.
For ideas for friends and family on what to read or gifts for hospital patients, please see our Amazon page.
September 2011. Jashcroft is once again supporting an Aylesbury-based cancer charity by donating 15% of proceeds from the sale of her purple hats and scarves throughout September. With the new website, we have seven purple gifts available under this promotion: two headscarves, a fabulous baker boy hat, a turban, a headband, a beanie and a gorgeous silk scarf. This month, our purple gifts are being sold with 15% of the proceeds benefitting the Lymphoma Association. Alice Strudwick, director of fundraising at the Lymphoma Association said: This year our Lymphatic Cancer Awareness Week is being held from 12 to 18 September so we are delighted and incredibly grateful that Jo has decided to support us during this month. The aim of the week is to raise awareness of the signs and symptoms of lymphoma and also to raise vital funds for our charity so we can continue to provide our free services to anyone affected by lymphatic cancer.
September 2011. Jo Ashcroft of 4myhead.com Limited, a South Bucks-based designer of hats and scarves, is pleased to announce that for the second year, Beaconsfield High School (BHS) Year 7 students will be designing and making a hat for teenagers who are being treated for cancer. The winning design from last year′s competition is now available as the ″Phlly″ style, with proceeds from each of these hats sold in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust.
Through this competition, students are enhancing their learning about Textiles Technology, enabling them to make informed choices for designing their hats. Jo Ashcroft, founder of 4myhead.com, said: ″We started this competition last year and had fantastic support from BHS and Teenage Cancer Trust. The quality, thought and care that went into the hat designs was fantastic. I am very pleased that we will be asking the new students for a design that will add to our collection from last year′s winning style.″
Highlights from the last competition included having Lucy Siegle as a special guest to judge the finals, the BHS fashion show where Jo′s hats and those designed and made by the students were modelled and raising nearly £1,000 for Teenage Cancer Trust.
August 2011. Isobel and Connie will be helping if you are looking for lightweight material for headscarves and hats during the summer months.
July 2011. The finals of our first teenage hat competition. During the academic year, Beaconsfield High School students have been working on hat designs for teenagers who are being treated for cancer. The first group of hats were judged in March and the final groups were judged in July. We were thrilled that special guest Lucy Siegle was able to join the school and Teenage Cancer Trust in choosing Philippa's hat as the winner. Jo will now be working with her British seamstresses to have the hat produced and will be donating proceeds from each of these hats sold in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust.
July 2011. JAshcroft hats and scarves will be at Windsor, Reading, St. Albans, Newbury, High Wycombe and Banbury during July for Tesco and Cancer Research UK's Race for Life events. We will have a selection of great cotton hats, silk scarves and of course our jersey print headscarves.
June 2011. JAshcroft will be at Milton Keynes on Saturday 11th June, Northampton on Sunday 19th June and Oxford on Sunday 26th June for Tesco and Cancer Research UK's Race for Life events. We will have a selection of great cotton hats, silk scarves and of course our jersey print headscarves. Race for life - join the girls.
May 2011. JAshcroft will be at Burghley House on Sunday May 15th for Tesco and Cancer Research UK's Race for Life Stamford.
April 2011. 4myhead.com supports the girls at Tesco and Cancer Research UK's Race for Life 2011! We will see you at a number of events across the UK this summer. Walk, jog or run 5k or 10k to help beat cancer. Race for life.
"...I'm very pleased with all of the lovely hats and scarves. Can't wait to wake up tomorrow to decide which one to wear!"
During 2011, we launched our second site, jashcroft hats and scarves which allows easy searching of our headwear at jashcroft.co.uk Description: Stylish cotton hats, breast cancer scarves, chemotherapy turbans and soft beanie caps by jashcroft uk.
March 2011. A busy start to the year. We were amazed by the wonderful selection of hats designed by Beaconsfield High School in our hat competition. More information on our blog.
"...taking my Baker Boy with me to keep warm"
February 2011. Finalising our new site to be ready for March. Thank you to Kathryn for looking after orders.
January 2011. Continuing to work on our hat competition and looking forward to the first finalists being selected in February. Looking forward to seeing plans for the new UCLH.
"the Capry scarves look great and arrived really quickly"
December 2010. Thrilled to be supporting the invitation only event in Uxbridge on Wednesday. We will also be at the Royal Free on Wednesday 15th December.
November 2010. We are pleased to announce that we are a Trading Standards Scheme member as an Approved Buy With Confidence member.
November 2010. We have survived our first craft fair. We had a stall at the Beaonsfield High School Christmas Fair. On display were our Kelly Baker Boy hats and our Beryl Berets. As well we were selling bandanas from the Teenage Cancer Trust. It was a busy event and well done to the organisers for what will be I'm sure a great fundraiser for the school. We loved the enthusiasm of the girls and meeting genuine craft makers.
"I am delighted with my purchases and even my husband liked them"
Thank you to Jane for the invitation in Scotland and to Helena of www.cummerbundance.co.uk for the demonstration and sale of headwear at the Forth Park Hospital on the 26th October for the Womens Gynaecology Cancer Support Group.
"tech is fun" (text from one of the designers working on our Teen Hat)
October 2010 UPDATE. 4myhead.com and a charity that helps young people fight cancer, are pleased to announce the launch of a special competition for Beaconsfield High School (BHS). BHS students will submit hat designs for teenagers who are being treated for cancer. The competition and the hat that is produced will be in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust, which funds and builds specialist state-of-the-art units for young people with cancer in NHS hospitals across the UK. In 1995, BHS became one of the first schools in the country to be designated a Technology Specialist College. Through this competition, students in Year 7 will learn about Textiles Technology, enabling them to make informed choices for designing their hats. For more information about this competition, please visit www.jashcroft.co.uk
"impressed to learn of the contribution you are making to support young people fighting cancer"
October 2010. A busy month. New styles, like our Kelly baker boy cap coming this month in navy blue and charcoal grey. If you are in London, we will be at the Royal Free Hospital, Macmillan Cancer Support centre, from 10 until 3 on Wednesday 6th October. All styles of hats and scarves will be available for purchase. We will also be at the Forth Park Hospital, Scotland on the Tuesday 26th October at 2pm with a demonstration and with selected items available for sale.
"Thank you for your support and the amount of work you put into it."
September 2010. 4myhead.com are pleased to support the Lymphoma Association. We are selling our purple Skye SP1 and the periwinkle
August 2010. Thank you again to Isobel for manning the shop. We hope you enjoyed your contact with her. Jo returned from holiday to find a letter from Cancer Research saying the Donation Station bags collected are expected to generate an amazing £1,610.
July 2010. With the heat this summer we have gathered our coolest scarves and hats onto our front page. The Liberty prints in particular are popular in both the cotton and viscose jerseys.
June 2010. A great month. First we have collected over 50 donation bags for Cancer Research UK by hosting our second swishing and swapping fundraiser. This event also led to donations of £262 for the Lymphoma Association, Breast Cancer Care and Macmillan Cancer Support.
Thank you to Alison and the volunteers for a wonderful welcome. 4myhead.com was at the Macmillan Cancer Information and Support Centre at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead London on 30th June. We hope to be back in the autumn with our seasonal styles. Further details on the centre are on the Royal Free website.
"Thanks for lending us the items. Our volunteers were impressed with them."
May 2010. We are planning for our June fundraising. The donation bags have arrived from Cancer Research UK and they are filling up fast.
April 2010. A busy start to the spring. Jo had the pleasure of meeting Alison and her team at the Royal Free's new Macmillan Cancer Information and Support centre in London. A supportive team who are organising patient support events so I encourage those in Hampstead to drop into the centre.
A Doctors experience "one of the worst things about alopecia is being very cold, I even wore a hat in bed" (Editors note - The Tyara caps in our Hats section are designed for sleeping) .
"I haven't had my hat off since it arrived."
March 2010. With best wishes to our many Scottish clients we are pleased to be included in links to the Tax Tent charity. www.taktent.org/link.html
February 2010. Our first hat for men with hair loss from chemotherapy. Spurred on by our meeting with the Lymphoma Association, the Pryme beanie is now available. The first one in a thick navy cotton Pryme.
January 2010. You can now see 4myhead.com on the Cancer Research CancerHelp UK website under Useful Resources CancerHelp
"thank you again" (Editors note - we were able to make a small Jesy to fit the client's measurements) .
January 2010. You can now try on three of our styles, Fynn, Capry and Tyara, samples only, at the UCLH Macmillan Centre in London. A wonderful atmosphere.
"loved the look of the Beryl, the Fynn and the Jesy"
December 2009. Ready for winter with our leaflets in more Macmillan centres. From time to time we offer a trio of hats as a gift idea.
Trio of chocolate brown stylish hats
November 2009. A very informative presentation by Ovarian Cancer Action to help raise awareness of ovarian cancer and the symptoms. Congratulations to Loretta on raising £20,000. See www.ovarian.org.uk
October 2009. We meet the helpful and friendly nurse specialists at the Helen Donald Unit, Watford Hospital. Best wishes to the new Macmillan help centre. We have left a sample of our black Capry scarf with the nurses, which you can see here.
Noir scarf
"My order arrived and it is all fantastic" (Caprys and Tyara following a recommendation from the LOC)
"Thank you for the lovely scarves" (Trndy and Capry in Liberty fabrics)
September 2009. We are supporting a local Macmillan coffee morning as it is a fantastic idea. Penny raised £180 for Macmillan and the Iain Rennie Hospice.
July and August 2009. Isobel and Bev join the summer team. We are very impressed with the facilities at the Parkside Oncology clinic.
June 2009. We are thrilled to be listed on the Macmillan/Cancerbackup website. www.cancerbackup.org.uk/Resourcessupport/Organisations/Searchall/53138109
May 2009. Our cards go on display at another NHS hospital in the SouthEast.
April 2009. Our third fundraising raises £46.71 for Breast Cancer Care and £90 for Cancer Research. Plus the donation of over 100 items of clothing and accessories to the Beaconsfield Cancer Research shop. More details are in the charity section.
March 2009. Our first sales event. Beryl berets are reduced by 20% to £20 and our Jesy in velvet to £17.50.
February 2009. The website is upgraded and a Skype contact is added. See About us for more details.
December 2008. Planning for our next fundraising event. Decide to make it a spring clean party for Cancer Research.
November 2008. The enthusiastic Breast Cancer Care publishes its new brochure on hair loss. Breast Cancer Care
"I like both scarves very much, they have a feminine touch, which is exactly what I was looking for (Rosy RI and Capry)"
September 2008. We meet the lovely Chemotherapy Treatment nurse at The Spire Thames Valley Hospital.
"the hats and scarves are good prices and use nice fabric"
"I think that your designs are terrific"
"a lovely fabric" (Rosy RI)
"well made ... of good quality ... you use such lovely fabrics"
September 2008. The first hair and make-up workshop for ladies at The London Oncology Clinic.
"... thank you for your support and fabulous products. The ladies had such fun trying them on."
September 2008. Very sad news. The loss of a lovely lady. The family asks for donations to Cancer Research.
August 2008. Sarah and Bev look after our customers, fulfilling the orders. Our aim is to post first class within 24 hours of purchasing 4myhead.com headwear.
July 2008. We meet the great team at the Parapet, Windsor.
"I love the hat (Tyara pink with polka dots) ... I have to say both the service and product were excellent."
"Arrived very promptly"
July 2008. Anne V models the headscarves. So beautiful and natural. Here she is in the chocolate brown Fynn hat.
Fynn hat
"I am very pleased with the scarves - especially, with the turquoise one." (Editors note: This Capry scarf in this Liberty fabric has sold out but there are other Capry Liberty options.)
June 2008. Wendy joins our team of seamstresses, making summer versions of the Fynn hat and the Capry scarf.
Fynn FP1
May 2008. Anne R joins our team of seamstresses, creating the Marysa.
Marysa MR1
April 2008. We join Facebook.
February 2008. Great feedback from our meeting in the Oncology Day Unit at the Princess Margaret hospital.
"Hey ... the scarf/hat looks great ! Its just want I need for when the "fluffy" wig is not being used.. the colours are perfect."
Trndy TB1 under brown felt hat
"I like the beret"
"Lovely and soft material."
"I like the look of that one. Sort of organic and hipsterish." (DG looking at Beryl beret)
"decided a special Xmas present was in order"
"Extremely classy, love it" (SP looking at Beryl beret)
January 2008. The website is launched.
October 2007. Jenny is our initial seamstress, creating Capry, Jesy, Trndy and many more.
Jesy JBP1
September 2007. The 4myhead.com company starts life.
Capry CLP1