Anna Clinton talks to Adam and Vicky (BBC Radio Shropshire) about raising money for Lingen Davies Cancer Fund at the Shrewsbury Flower Show August 12th and 13th 2011
Tuesday 9 August 2011
BBC Breakfast Radio Clip
Philip Minton, Kim Allman and Lou talk about the benefits of in salon training to BBC Radio Shropshire Breakfast Show with Eric Smith and Clare Ashford.
Friday 5 August 2011
Shrewsbury Flower Show
Top stylists from a leading salon will be cutting hair in a good cause at the Shrewsbury Flower Show this weekend.
Anna Clinton and Georgina Hughes, of the K2 salon in Shrewsbury’s Darwin Shopping Centre, will be at the Show on Friday and Saturday cutting hair in aid of the Lingen Davies Cancer Charity Appeal – and for Anna it’s personal.
The 29-year-old lost her grandmother, popular former pub landlady Joan Clinton, to cancer this year and Anna said: “I really miss my nanna so it will be special to raise money for the charity.
“We did it last year at the show and we raised over £650 in the two days. Georgina and I must have been cutting 30 people’s hair a day – out hands were almost dropping off at the end.
“We had them queuing up and a couple of times we had to ask people to come back later because we were so busy and there were so many waiting but it’s such a good cause.”
The two stylists will set up in the Shrewsbury Shopping Marquee at the Shrewsbury Flower Show where the K2 salon has a stand and although they won’t charge for their services they will ask for a donation to the charity.
Nicholas Pitt, Centre Director of the Darwin, Pride Hill and Riverside Shopping Centres and one of the show’s main sponsors, said: “Anna and Georgina were at the marquee last year and they did a brilliant job.
“The Lingen Davies Appeal is a really important local charity which has done so much to help cancer patients from Shropshire and Mid Wales and it is especially significant for Anna as she lost her grandmother to cancer this year.
“Their efforts proved very popular last year and I’m sure they will again because Anna and Georgina are very talented and it’s a great opportunity to have your hair styled by two of the very best local hairdressers.”
Anna, from Greenfield Gardens, Shrewsbury, added: “My nana used to own the Springfield pub in the town and was very well known but a number of the staff jere at K2 have also had family and friends affected by cancer and that’s why we’re keen to do something to raise money for the appeal.
“We give them goodie bags and they can come along and have their hair cut and styled and all just for a donation to the appeal.”
Anna has appeared on the Clothes Show and was a finalist in the Young Hairdresser of the Year in Birmingham three years in a row while Georgina is just back from a course in advanced colouring and cutting techniques at the Sassoon Academy in London.
Georgina said: “It was mad last year, it was well busy and everyone was watching but it was fuin as well.
“We were so shocked by how many people came and the tent just got so full.
“We both did about 30 cuts each day which takes some doing.”
The Lingen Davies Cancer Relief Fund has recently reached its target of £3.2 million to build a new Cancer Treatment Centre at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and work is starting this month. The appeal’s fund-raising efforts are continuing to equip and run the new centre which is expected to be completed by autumn 2012.
Shrewsbury Shopping are a major sponsor of the Flower Show and their marquee will also feature stands from AT Computers and Currys Digital from the Darwin Centre as well as La Senza.
The Shrewsbury Flower Show – this year is the 124th – is the longest running horticultural show in the world and this year will also feature celebrity chef Gino D’Acampo and BBC gardening guru Chris Beardshaw.
There will also be a host of national and local exhibitors as well as entertainment from the Royal Artillery Motorcycle Display Team and medieval jousters The Knights of the Damned.
For more information visit www.shrewsburyflowershow.org.
Back to the 70s at salon to celebrate anniversary
Publish Post
Prices rolled back to celebrate anniversary
A Shropshire hairdresser has found a fun way to celebrate the 40th anniversary of his first salon – a return to 1970s prices.
Philip Minton, a Bond Street stylist in the swinging 60s and owner of K2 hair salon in the Darwin Shopping Centre, Shrewsbury, is giving his tariffs a quick trim on special offer days to roll back the years.
He has found original price list frm the opening of Cameo, in the towns castle street, back in Decmeber 1971, when Ted Heath was Prime Minister, Sir Alf Ramsey was manager of England and Bennie Hills Ernie, the fastest Milkman in the west was number one in the charts.
Customers who visit his website and sign up could find they are entitled to a restyle at 1970’s prices,
Mr Minton, 62, of Weston Lullingfields, who also has a salon in Newtown, said he wanted to share the anniversary with his loyal customers. His career started when he was only 15 and was inspired by Vidal Sassoon, the inventor of the bob.
He said: “I do remember the moment I wantedto be a hairdresser. I was watching TV and Vidal Sassoon came on one of those Saturday night programmes with two lovely girls on each arm and these women just stood there and shook the beautiful bobs he had created for them.”
Mr Minton who is married with three children, said: “when we opened our second salon in Newtown 12 years ago, Elaine Nations, Vidal Sassoons first wife, decided to come in and give us a try because she was interested I think to support the new local salon.”
K2 is a Sassoon partner salon which means staff have day- long work experience with some of sassoons top stylists.
By Carl Jones
Shropshire Star
A hair–raising offer for salon’s anniversary
A hair – raising offer for salon’s anniversary
A shrewbsury hairdresser at the top of his profession has found a unique way to celebrate the 40th anniversary of opening his first salon
Philip Minton, a Bond Street stylist in the swinging sixties and owner of K2 hair Salon in the Darwin Shopping Centre, is giving his prices a quick trim on special offer days to roll back the years to the 70s.
He has found an orginal price list from the days when he opened his first salon, Cameo, on the towns castle street back in Dcember 1971 – back in the days when Ted heath was Prime Minister , Sir Alf Ramsey was manager of England and Bennie Hills “Ernie, The Fastest Milkman in the west was keeping T Rexs “Jeepster off the number one spot in the charts.
Customer who visit his website and sign up could find they are entitled to a restyle and blowdry for under £5 or a shampoo and set for £1.50.
Philip, 62, of Weston Lullingfields who has a second salon in Newtown said he wanted to share the special anniversary with his loyal customer and think back over his career which started when he was only 15 and was inspired by Vidal Sassoon, the inventor of the bob.
He said: “ Ido remember the moment I wanted to be a hairdresser. I was watching TV andsassoon came on one of these Saturday night programmes with two lovely girls on each arm and these two women just stood there and shook the beautiful bobs he had for them.
“I just loved the way he was selling himself and his company and i thought to myself, I would like to do that.”
By te=he age of 22, Philip, who is married with three children, was opening his first salon and four years later he was in the Christmas edition of Vogue magazine.
But little did he know that the former wife of the man who inspired him to get into hairdressing would later become a customer.
He said: “ when we opened our salon in Newtown 12 years ago, Elaine Nations, vidal sassoons first wife came in to support the salon.”
“she is a nice lady and we have had some fascinating conversations with her over the years....Wednesday 3 August 2011
K2 Stylist is finalist of Avant Garde Competition.
STYLIST Casey Reynolds, of K2 The Salon, Bear Lanes, Newtown, with her model when she reached the finals of a huge regional hairdressing competition in Wolverhampton this month.
The competition was judged by the renowned celebrity hairdresser Patrick Cameron. Casey competed with many other hairdressers from all over the midlands. She had to style and present her model to Patrick and the other judges with a mood board, ready for the catwalk later in the evening! Casey really enjoyed showing her hairdressing skills off to a different audience and being able to style the hair in a more advent – garde fashion for the catwalk competition
Monday 1 August 2011
Terri & George at the "Advanced Sassoon Colouring and Cutting" course
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