Lucy has been closely affected by cancer. Last year a member of her family was diagnosed, her uncle also died from the disease in 2011.

"I was in Broken Hill and we were talking about my uncle and I decided it would be a nice thing to shave my head for my uncle. I thought it would be the right thing to do," Lucy said.

She started researching and found even more people who had been affected.

"I also found out that one of my friend's grandmas had cancer as well and my aunty also had cancer."

Without any hesitation, Lucy told her mum she wanted to participate in the World's Greatest Shave.

"She's come up with the idea in her own mind, came to us and said this is what I'm doing and that's the way it is. We all sort of know well enough that we don't argue with that," Ms Pierpont said

"A girlfriend of ours in Broken Hill has done it before. She was one of the first people [Lucy] talked to when she got the idea in her head, just so she could see what it was all about because Steph did it last year."

So far Lucy has raised $1069 and is the ninth-highest World's Greatest Shave participant fundraising at the moment. Her initial goal was to reach $1000, but Ms Pierpont said her daughter was now hoping to raise $2000.

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"If she gets another $800 it'll put her in the top five so we're aiming for that one," Ms Pierpont said.

After Lucy shaves her hair on October 26, her hair will be donated to make a wig.

"There's a site that's actually dedicated to designing wigs for little girls, so that's what we're hoping to do," Ms Pierpont said.

To help Lucy reach her fundraising goal, her school Buningyong Primary are holding a Crazy Hair Day on Thursday October 23.

Lucy said for a gold coin donation, the students can come to school with colourful and quirky hair.

"Mum emailed the school and asked if they could do some sort of fundraising and my friend came up to me and said they were doing a crazy hair day," she said.

As well as the gold coin donation, the classes will be competing to have the longest strand of hair comprised of coins from a chalk outline of Lucy's face in front of the office.

"I asked my guide leaders the other day to see if they could help me with some fundraising for the guides as well," Lucy said.

Ms Pierpont said she's been overwhelmed with the community's response.

"Everyone has been really supportive, the school's been fantastic. From the minute we said it to them they said they'd do whatever they can.

"We've had anonymous donations from people we don't even know and the messages of support have been fantastic."

Those wishing to donate to Lucy can go to http://my.leukaemiafoundation.org.au/lucypierpoint.