ShopMate's Movember Mission: Shaving Beards, Growing Moustaches, and Supporting Men's Health

To show their support for the Movember men’s charity, our boys have selflessly removed their beards and have spent the entire month of November replacing them with some impressive moustaches. Many of them had beards to remove at the beginning of the month and the experience of a bare chin was mostly recorded as “almost traumatic…”

Phill, Technical Support Manager, said “Everyone enjoys doing the actual shave. We trim our beards into different styles as we’re making it smaller and smaller. Goatee and sideburns, then the VanDyke, maybe a soul patch, or Charlie Chaplin…. And then it’s gone. And we regret everything.”

Ian, Sales Support Manager, who initiated the fundraiser, was keen to support the Movember charity which raises money in aid of male mental health, prostate cancer and testicular cancer. “The last time I was completely clean shaven was when I got married back in 2012. I usually keep it trimmed and tidy but not completely shaved. When we originally planned to do this as a group back in September, I decided to let it grow out a bit more than usual so that it would be more of a shock when I took it off! While my face feels exposed without the beard, I know that it is for a good cause, with a good bunch of friends together.”

Stephen, our Chairman, doesn’t usually have a beard – so he’s eagerly awaiting the 1st December so he can remove his ‘tache – but he was “keen to join in with the team and help raise money for the cause.”