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Sunderlands award-winning salon strikes again!

After a busy summer of applications, the team headed to our third awards night of this month! We attended each evening with high hopes, having been nominated for at least one category in each. First up was the lovely Annabelle, who was nominated for the ‘Apprentice of the Year’ award in recognition of her hard […]

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Standing up to Cancer, one day at a time!

Wow, what an amazing day we had in the salon yesterday! Let me run you through what has been the biggest campaign we’ve been involved into date… So, a few months back the @thewonderfulwigcompany was approached by @cancerresearchuk as they had heard what we do here, and they asked us if we would like to […]

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Fit for a princess

For regular readers of our blog it will come as no surprise to read an entry about our continued and dedicated support for The Little Princess Trust.  For our new readers, let us tell you a little bit about the charity, what it means to us and how we here at The Wonderful Wig Company […]

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Life’s a Speech

As I sit on my desk in our new, swanky city centre office, I can’t help but get off my chest just what I’m getting myself into, again!  As I’m sure you’ll have heard, last week I was invited to speak at the annual nurses conference for QE Gateshead. The QE is an NHS foundation […]

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Growing with NatWest

So you may perhaps been wondering where I’ve been disappearing off to for the last few weeks..? Just a few short months ago, I attended some pretty important meetings in Newcastle city centre to try and gain acceptance to an entrepreneurial course that’s run by Natwest… This fantastic scheme is designed to empower entrepreneurs in […]

Living with and Beyond Cancer

Last month, we were fortunate enough to be invited down to an event for one of the educational centres at the City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust. The event itself, was very well attended, with over 150 signing up for a day full of workshops, inspirational speeches and advice on ‘living with and beyond cancer’. […]

Baking up a Smile

As you (and most of your bellies) will know, we have been running a charity kitchen in the salon since our relaunch last January. It seems like such a long time since we began the scheme, but the focus has always been to help generate an income for some of the great charities that we […]

Sunderland echo award win CSR

Putting community first, and that’s a FACT!

One of the main reasons we were awarded with the Sunderland Echo Social Corporate Responsibility award was due to the work we do for the local community and further afield. Being based in High Barnes, which is a tight-knit community, Kitui Hair Design is about trying to encourage community cohesion as a means of helping […]

Kitui visits Ellen Wille

Working with wigs can be very challenging; the industry itself is very complex, techniques and variation are vast and as each individual we see is so unique, our wigs have to be too. No clients lives are the same, so why should our wigs be? Here at Kitui Hair Design, we love challenging ourselves and […]