A barber's shop in Croxley Green will hold a special fundraising day with cake and face painting today.

CJ Barbers, in New Road, is hosting the event between 8.30am and 5.30pm, to raise money for The Peace Hospice in Watford.

Bacon rolls will be available until noon, the face painting will be from 3.30 to 5.30pm, and there is also an all-day cake sale. In November 2010, staff from the barbers hot-footed it across a path of flaming coals to raise money for the Peace Hospice.

Owner Clare Lemon and employees Rebecca Barnes, Amy Read and Serana Morris took part in the shortest, but most challenging, sponsored walk available.

Ms Lemon said: “I had a very good friend who stayed at the Peace Hospice in 2010, it was the first time I’d been there and the staff were so great.

“Jane Robinson was 49 when she died of cancer, I knew her for a long time, she used to work next door.

“She only had the illness for a few weeks and only stayed at the hospice for short time but they really made an impression. They were amazing.

“Jane was a great friend, had a great sense of humour and was a great laugh.”

The Peace Hospice needs to raise some £3 million of charitable income every year to survive. All the care it provides is free.