Movember is well underway here at Ebsford. This year, we are participating in the incredibly inventive and invaluable fundraiser, helping to raise awareness for men’s health.
Those who can, are growing their most impressive moustaches across the month and the rest are ‘Moving for Movember’, each walking or running a distance of 60km to represent the 60 men lost each hour to suicide across the world. We also have a ‘Mo Your Own Way’ wildcard entry Alex Briant, who has dusted off his bike to cycle through the month, all for a good cause.
Check out our Assistant Site Manager Michael Reardons tache after just a couple of days! We are definitely eager to see the end product…
Here’s a quick refresher on what Movember is all about. Movember are the leading charity changing the face of men’s health, they use donations to fund ground-breaking research and launch programs designed with men in mind.
This year has been tough on us all and 2020 has hit men’s health hard, ¾ of suicides are men and that figure is only increasing with last year’s numbers unfortunately growing by more than 10%. Men’s health is not always at the forefront of fundraising so putting a focus on Mental health and suicide prevention, Prostate cancer, and Testicular cancer across November in such a creative way is benefitting us more than you could imagine. By 2030, Movember aim to reduce the number of men dying prematurely by 25% and they can only do this with the help of Mo Bros and Mo Sisters, like you and I.
Much like growing a moustache, donations either come thick and fast or most of the time slow and sparse, so if you would like to give our team some extra motivation and would be generous enough support us, follow the link to view our team page: https://uk.movember.com/team/2377575
There is still time to sign up and do your bit for Movember, so let’s change the face of men’s health together.
A special thanks to our Resource Manager Fran for getting us involved.
