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FAQ Categories

• About the event
• Why take part
• Leukaemia Foundation
• When and where to take part
• How to take part
• Fundraising
• Website
• Paying in money and receipt books
• Policies and legal stuff

Frequently Asked Questions

• About the event

  • Can I shave or colour at another time of year?
  • Do I have to raise money when I shave?
  • How much of my money goes to the cost of running World’s Greatest Shave?
  • Is this the same as Bluey Day or Crop a Cop?
  • Is this the same as Shave for a Cure?
  • What is the World’s Greatest Shave?
  • What’s the World Record?
  • When is World’s Greatest Shave?
  • Which celebrities are shaving this year?

• Why take part

  • How do people get leukaemia?
  • How many people are affected by blood cancers?
  • What is leukaemia?
  • What is the money I raise used for?

• Leukaemia Foundation

  • Does the Leukaemia Foundation help people with lymphoma?
  • What does the Leukaemia Foundation do?

• When and where to take part

  • Can I advertise my shave event and invite the public to attend?
  • Can I get media coverage for my event or for my shave?
  • Can I organise my own event?
  • Can I shave or colour at another time of year?
  • Can I volunteer to help?
  • I’m a hairdresser – how can I help?
  • When is World’s Greatest Shave?
  • Where can I find a hairdresser to help?
  • Where can I go to Shave?

• How to take part

  • Can a team of us take part?
  • Can I do other things instead of shaving?
  • Can I donate my hair?
  • Can I download your logo or any pictures?
  • Can I set a target so I only shave when I get to $x?
  • Can I take part if I don't live in Australia?
  • Can I use some of the money I’ve raised to pay a hairdresser or to buy hair spray?
  • Do I have to Shave?
  • Do you have a letter or email template to get me started?
  • Does my hair have to be coloured permanently?
  • Does the hair colour give you cancer?
  • Does the Leukaemia Foundation provide colour hair spray?
  • How can I invite people to join my team?
  • How can I make sure my shave event is safe?
  • How can we combine the total raised by all the teams in our business?
  • How do I get people to join my team?
  • How do I join a team?
  • How do I sign up?
  • How short do I have to shave?
  • I signed up as an individual – can I change to a team?
  • Is there an age limit – how old do you have to be?
  • My kit and receipt book hasn’t arrived, where is it?
  • Should I worry about the hair spray if I have asthma?
  • What is Funky Hair Friday?
  • What’s the Mine Challenge?
  • What’s the Top 30?
  • When do you assess the fundraising totals for any challenges or awards?
  • Where can I buy T-shirts and hats?
  • Where can I get fundraising tips and ideas?
  • Where can I get hair colour?
  • Where do I find the super teams?
  • Who can take part?
  • Will I receive a fundraising kit in the post?
  • Will my hair grow back!

• Fundraising

  • Are my online donations secure?
  • Can I accept a cheque from my sponsors?
  • Can I donate to the whole team and not one person on the team?
  • Can I get a new tax receipt?
  • Can I knock on doors in my street to ask for donations?
  • Can I order extra receipt books if I run out of receipts?
  • Can I run a prize draw to raise funds?
  • Can I show on my Profile Page what people have pledged before I bank the money?
  • Can I split the money I raise between you and another charity or good cause?
  • Can my business make a donation?
  • Can someone sponsor me from overseas?
  • Do I ask for money before or after I shave?
  • How can someone sponsor me by credit card?
  • How do I get sponsors?
  • How do I give receipts for an unusual amount of money? (e.g. $51)
  • How do I sponsor someone?
  • If I buy a T-shirt can the money raised be added to my fundraising total?
  • If people give me cash, how do I give people receipts?
  • My sponsors can’t sponsor me online, what’s wrong?
  • What does Privacy Requested mean?
  • Why can't I find the person I want to sponsor?

• Website

  • Are my online donations secure?
  • Can I upload a business logo (if I have a business team)?
  • Can I upload videos?
  • Can someone sponsor me from overseas?
  • How big can the photo be?
  • How do I delete a message on my wall?
  • How do I make changes to my Personal Profile Page?
  • How do I make my photo smaller?
  • How do people find my Personal Profile Page?
  • I'm not receiving your emails, why not?
  • Is there a World's Greatest Shave facebook page?
  • What does banked funds mean on my Profile Page?
  • What picture formats can I upload?
  • What’s my Fundraising Page?
  • What’s my Personal Profile Page?
  • Where can I watch the TV commercials?
  • Where do I find the media centre/press office?
  • Where do I send you my before and after photographs?
  • Why can't I see any messages on my page?
  • Why doesn't my credit card donation show on the shaver's page?
  • Why doesn't the money I've banked show on my Personal Profile Page?

• Paying in money and receipt books

  • How do I pay in the money?
  • I didn’t take part – do I have to return the kit?
  • If I have lost, misplaced or thrown my receipt book away what do I do?
  • What do I do with the receipt book?
  • What’s the address for sending back the receipt book?
  • When’s the deadline for paying in my money?

• Policies and legal stuff

  • Do I have to have public liability insurance for my shave event?
  • How can I make sure my shave event is safe?
  • Is there an age limit – how old do you have to be?
  • Where do I send the Under 18 consent form to?
  • Why do I have to agree to the waiver?