Sometimes a situation can become clearer when looking at it through the eyes of a child.

This was certainly the case for the Stevenson family who watched with pride as their eight-year-old sat in the hairdressers and had her hair shaved off.

Eight-year-old Lucy decided this was something she wanted to do just a few weeks ago after being told her uncle George had cancer.

George, who is also Lucy's godfather, was diagnosed with a form of blood cancer called myeloma at the end of last year, aged 33.

After completing his first round of chemotherapy, George recently shaved his head ahead of soon returning to hospital for a round of high dose chemotherapy.

He decided he would rather shave his hair than wait to see if it fell out bit by bit as a side effect of the medication, with some of his friends joining him in support by also shaving their heads.

"Why is it only boys?" was one of the first questions little Lucy asked her mum when she was told that her uncle George and his friends had shaved their heads.

"It was the day she found out that she decided she was going to do it," mum Melanie, who is George's sister, says.

"I told her we were going to see uncle George and that he wasn't very well.

"She sees him quite a lot so she knew he had sore neck and sore ribs so she worked it out herself really that it was cancer from the head shaving.

"She said 'I'm going to do it too and raise money and raise awareness so I can get more people to sign up'.

"I am surprised obviously because she is eight, but at the same time, she is a very thoughtful little girl - she likes everybody to be happy and she will do everything she can to make that happen.

"It is pretty simple for her, she wants to support her uncle George and this is a way to do it."

Melanie helped the eight-year-old set up an online fundraiser in support of the Anthony Nolan register and has already raised more than her original goal of £3000.

Lucy and her family are also hopeful the sponsored head shave will encourage others to become blood stem cell donors through registers like Antony Nolan and We Delete Blood Cancer.

"The situation George is in just now is that he doesn't have a strong match," Melanie says. "I'm not a match.

"Registering is quick, easy and could literally save someone's life so I hope that Lucy's gesture will encourage others to take action."

While George tried to talk his caring niece out of shaving her head on his behalf, the family stood by the determined Scots decision, enjoying ice creams on the house at Billington's in Lenzie after the trip to the hairdressers.

"The view myself and my husband took was that if Lucy really wanted to do it, it wouldn't be fair to take that away from her," Melanie says.

"She is not a silly little girl, she has had it explained to her.

"We have been very honest that it will take time for her hair to grow back. "She was like 'Mummy, it is only hair, I'll still be the same person'.

"She is doing it for George and to potentially save his life or somebody else's.

Mum Melanie adds: "I can't express how proud of her I am. She is just an amazing little girl, it is just so selfless."

The risk of myeloma increases with age and it is most commonly diagnosed after the age of 65. It is rare for people under the age of 40 to be diagnosed so the news came as a shock for George, his wife Heather and one-year-old son Mitchell.

While the family gathered around to support Lucy with her fundraising challenge, Lucy plans to return this support and be there for her uncle during the next stage of his treatment.

"I didn't want my uncle George to do it [head shave] only with boys, I wanted to be the first girl to do it and I love my uncle George and that will never change," Lucy says.

"[My friends] said I'm amazing and really, really kind - my teacher and I stood at the front of the class as she wanted the whole class to know what I was doing and why.

"By getting more people to sign up we'll get more chance of my uncle George getting healthy blood cells and living a longer life."

More information about registering to become a blood stem cell donor can be found on Anthony Nolan and We Delete Blood Cancer's websites.