A NORTH Lancashire village store is raffling off a 2kg chocolate bar to raise funds for a woman with an extreme hair pulling disorder.

Cowan Bridge Village Stores and Tea Room, between Kirkby Lonsdale and Ingleton, was chosen earlier this year to have its shop name put on a giant Kit Kat.

The tiny store beat off the big supermarkets in the region to become one of 152 businesses in the country to receive the award.

Now owners Geoff Hodgson and Stephen Garry have decided to raffle off the colossal confectionery to raise money for Jenna Kitchen – a young mum battling a rare disorder meaning she cannot stop pulling out her hair.

Jenna has been tormented by trichotillomania – an uncontrollable impulse to pull out her own hair – since she was seven-years-old.

After having her daughter four years ago, the 29-year-old said the disorder started to take over her life as she suffered postnatal depression and anxiety attacks.

She said: “It's a vicious circle - the stress starts the anxiety and the anxiety creates the need to pull.

“It first started with my eye lashes at around seven-years-old, then a few years later my eyebrows as well.

“I don't have any confidence and can't stand to look at myself. If I ever leave the house it's with a cap on. I just want to feel like me again and be able to go out with my head held high.”

Jenna, whose mother lives in Kendal, is currently working with a counsellor to try and determine the trigger of her trichotillomania, and is trying to raise £2,250 for specialist treatment involving real hair being attached to her own.

She said: “The reason this treatment would be so amazing for me is it’s like a wig - it acts as a barrier between my hands and my own hair, giving my own hair chance to grow underneath.”

Geoff said: “Jenna’s mother is a good friend of ours and it took a lot of courage for her to go public with her condition, so we decided to help her raise funds by raffling off our Kit Kat.”

Tickets can be bought from the shop, with the winner to be drawn on December 20.