THE chairman and co-founder of a charity for children with cancer will take over the headship of a Worcester school later this year.

Tim Lowe has been app-ointed headmaster of RGS The Grange, in succession to Richard Hunt. He will take up his post in September.

Mr Lowe is the chairman of the Little Princesses Trust, which provides wigs and hair pieces for children who lose their hair through cancer treatment.

He has been the headmaster at Hereford Cathedral Junior School since 1996. He was formerly deputy head and a housemaster of Wells Cathedral Junior School and director of marketing at Wells Cathedral School. Mr Lowe, father of three grown-up children, was chairman of IAPS Midlands District, is a governor of Hallfield School and is the chairman of Here-fordshire Schools Cricket Association.

A spokesman for the school said: "Mr Lowe is a charismatic and visionary leader whose priority will be to make RGS The Grange the top independent preparatory school in the Midlands."