Hair today, gone tomorrow for Scunthorpe area's Movember fundraisers who prove to be a cut above
MUSTACHIOED men across North Lincolnshire are getting ready to clip their whiskers as the Movember charity challenge comes to an end.
The annual event is run as a fun way for men to raise thousands of pounds by growing a moustache for a month.
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Adrian Gilbert, Francis Micallef and Dean Johns, from Rainham Steel show off their moustaches they grew as part of Movember
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Staff from Henderson Avenue Primary School who have taken part in Movember, from left, Matthew Sylvester, Marc Davey, Jonathan Kenyon and Paul Farman
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Symes Bains Broomer staff, from left, front, Roy Astley, Billy Yendall, David Holden, and back, Rodger Price, Andrew Horwich, and Steve Tait
The money raised is used to fund research into prostate and testicular cancer – and has seen unshaven gentlemen pop up across the region over the last four weeks.
Now, with hundreds of men's faces itching with bristles, charity fundraisers are preparing to count up their kitties – and shave off their beards.
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Steve Hare, yard manager at Rainham Steel, said: "We have done a few charity events before because we are charitable people.
"My boss told us that a depot down south was taking part in Movember and asked if any of us wanted to do it.
"Twenty-two of us said yes and that was it."
The group has so far raised £1,300 for the cause but Mr Hare said he couldn't wait to shave off his moustache.
He said: "My wife is not keen on the moustache but it has been great to receive so much support.
"She won't let me go to any social functions as she thinks it looks awful.
"I am fed up of it now because it is irritable and I cannot wait till the end of the month.
"I keep putting my hand over it but we have all stuck together.
"We will probably do it again next year as it is raising money and awareness for a good cause."
Symes Bains Broomer solicitors in Scunthorpe also grouped together in order to raise as much cash as they can.
Moustache-wearing David Holden, associate solicitor, said: "The first and most fundamental reason we are taking part in Movember is to attempt to raise as much money as possible for Movember and the excellent men's health initiatives that it supports.
"Our whole firm has wholeheartedly embraced Movember.
"For example, the ladies of the office decided to set up a Movember bake-off in order to encourage those gentlemen growing moustaches and to raise lots of money in the process."
Seven members of the firm are taking part in the campaign.
They have so far raised £1,000.
Also taking part in the challenge are seven teachers from Henderson Avenue Primary School in Scunthorpe.
Marc Davey, Key Stage One teacher at the school, said the group came up with the idea because its members thought it was a good cause and would raise the profile of the school.
Mr Davey said: "I am not keen on my moustache and my other half is not either.
"But it is for a good cause so I don't mind doing it."
The group has raised more than £400 so far.
Comments
by Hunky_n_Funky
Saturday, December 01 2012, 12:19PM
“Well that's unexpected. The automatic censor has asterisked one of my words. Perhaps I should have typed 'ticklely' instead of a similar sounding, innocuous word beginning with pri**ly!
This is must be a new variant on what is known in IT circles as 'The Scunthorpe Problem'!
http://tinyurl.com/caseb7”
by Hunky_n_Funky
Saturday, December 01 2012, 12:13PM
“I'm also proud to be raising money for Movember, as have many of my colleagues on the steelworks. This was my second year of membership, but it has been particularly appropriate, as my uncle died from prostrate cancer during October.
We Brit's have a fine tradition of growing facial fuzz of every description. We can be doubly proud this year of our charitable endeavours, because for a relatively small nation, the UK is second in the international leader board of fund raisers, having to date, raised over
£16 million: http://tinyurl.com/cssjgtp
Well done to all the fuzz farmers and those families who have endured *****ly bedtime kisses and everyone who has donated so generously!”