Members lend whiskery support to the intrepid Mo-growing volunteers
On Thursday 20th October, Steve Parsons and Rod Littlewood attended the official launch of Movember in Shoreditch, meeting up with friends from the past and present Movember campaigns.
Conrad, Rod and Steve with their Spitfires at Penhaligans
“We were particularly impressed with the Spitfire Bitter bottles sporting special labels with a handlebar - completely in keeping with our own image let alone Movember.”
More Movember Moments with The Handlebar Club:
Conrad Amis now reports:After bumping into a group of guys on a pub crawl in the Windsor Castle at the First Friday in October, on Wednesday 26th The Handlebar Club were proud to support the recent launch of the London Business School’s Movember campaign at their headquarters near Regent’s Park in London.
Lord Kitchener lends a hand at the London Business School's Movember launch
Rod Littlewood and Conrad Amis were in attendance to lend whiskery support to the intrepid volunteers, with the former giving a talk on the rules of Movember and the significance behind the campaign to improve men’s health.
Once fully briefed, the volunteers signed up in their droves - possibly assisted by a little Dutch Courage, all willing to grow their mos with pride and dignity. The Handlebar Club will be returning to judge them at the end of the month to ensure they have been true to their word…
In 2010 the LBS raised over £16,000 for Movember and are hoping to do even better this year, so here’s wishing them every success in their endeavours.
On Friday 28th October Steve Parsons, Conrad Amis and Rod Littlewood attended the official Movember ‘shave down’ at Penhaligon's in Covent Garden, again meeting up with members of the Movember team and the Prostate Cancer Charity Chief Executive.
The Shavedown begins
At the November First Friday, a reporter and photographer from The Times Newspaper, and a reporter from the BBC World Service attended to chat to members about Movember.
Familiar Faces at First Friday Photo © Times Newspapers
Steve, Keri, Rod, Geoff and 'Dame Judy' attended the Movember Long Lunch at the OXO Tower on Friday 18th November.
The Long Lunch began and ended with a moustache; not an OXO cube in sight.
Here are some familiar diners at the OXO Long Lunch which was of course not a freebie but a £40 per head Movember fundraiser!
Dame Judy with Rod's real moustache, and Keri's edible mo-stache biscuit
Conrad, Steve and Rod were invited to the Movember Gala Party in London on November 25th to judge the Ultimate Mo category.
Rod and Steve with Laura from Movember
Conrad Amis appears at 1 min in this Movember video by Crane TV.
November's feverish Movember upper lip activities saw Club Committee member Atters Attree officiating at various end of Movember fund raising events including The Rock Inn in Brighton (where staff and locals raised almost £3,000) and as an official Judge for the end of Movember’s Brighton Gala party (held at Sticky Mike's Frog Bar). Here Atters was joined by Club committee member Tom Cutler to judge the proceedings which were of course being held around the world to thank the “Mo Bros and Mo Sistas” for helping to raise awareness and cash.
Atters judges the female contenders...
Naturally Atters volunteered as a judge of the female contenders only (those who had raised money, dressed interestingly or had a nice smile). The evening closed with Atters, Tom and the touring Movember “big-wig” officials (some from Movember’s Australian HQ itself) presenting numerous celebratory accolades at the end.
for the London Business School
It was standing room only on Thursday 1st December as Rod and Conrad returned to the London Business School for the final awards ceremony.
Ably assisted by Pablo from Movember, we scrutinised ten sets of whiskers before selecting two finalists. The lively audience voted Derek Senft (below centre) as winner, seen here proudly displaying a Handlebar Club mug, as well as a bottle of something to drink from it.
Conrad, Rod, Derek, Kieran and Pablo
We’re pleased to announce that the LBS smashed their previous record, raising over £20,000 for this fine cause and finishing in the top ten teams across the UK. The Handlebar Club would like to congratulate everyone involved and we hope to see you again next Movember.
On the last night of the month of Movember 'Prez' Rod Littlewood went down to Epsom, Surrey to judge a few Mos at the office of TWM Solicitors. They have raised about £1600 between them.
Rod Littlewood with the TWM Team
L to R: Dan, Steve, Alan, Rod, Matt and Team Winner David Hitchcock
Secretary Steve Parsons reports:
On November 30th I attended the Fuller's Brewery Movember Party and moustache competition. Hundreds of Fullers employees across London and the South East have being growing moustaches and raising money all month and dozens of their pubs have been holding special Movember events to add to their fundraising total.
They were all very proud to hear that over £32,000 has been raised by their efforts - apparently more than the total for the whole of France! What a magnificent effort.
Moustache fan Rhiannon Devaney with the Sec.
The judging team of Dawn from Fullers, Jenny from Movember, Dylan Jones editor of GQ magazine and myself, presided over a parade of fabulous taches. However there could only be one winner of the coveted title of Fullers' Tache of Movember and that was Nigel Parrott - who also raised over £1000 in the process - thanks Nigel, and congratulations!
Steve with Sean Croucher, Landlord of the Bell & Jorrocks pub in Frittenden, Kent
Steve Parsons reports:
“Sean Croucher (above left), landlord of the Bell & Jorrocks pub in Frittenden, Kent, has again grown a moustache for Movember and this year has come up with a novel way of collecting money for the charity. As you can see, he has a moustachioed 'swear-box' on the bar and everytime a punter says "moustache" or "Movember" a quid goes in the box! This has been remarkably successful and Sean is close to a total of £400 with another week to go.”
Chris Agate, (below, third from the left in the black cowboy hat) old school mate of our Secretary has sent in this line-up of Mo Bros from guess where? Wrong! Chris has taken Movember with him to Bogota in South America!
Chris Agate, third from the left in the black cowboy hat
with the Mo Bros from Bogota
Please let us know if you have been doing anything for Movember. 