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REMEMBER, REMEMBER - THE FIFTH MOVEMBER
***PLEASE TAKE FIVE MINUTES TO READ THE FOLLOWING***
www.justgiving.com/movemberamir2016
£6,245.66. Can you BELIEVE it? That’s how much we’ve raised for causes such as mental health and cancer support and research (across Mind, Macmillan and the Movember charity itself) over the past four years. I have always been so grateful and to be honest, shocked at the support you've all provided to such worthy causes.
This year, MO MEANS MORE. I'm calling upon you to give whatever you can to help. Mental health issues - still underfunded, under-appreciated yet unrelenting in its power to ruin. WE (you, me and this beast growing on my face) are BACK to help fix that.
For a third year in a row, 100% of donations are going to the phenomenally deserving Mind - the UK's leading mental health charity.
MIND: PROVIDING SUPPORT, SERVICES, HELPLINES AND MORE FOR THOSE WHO NEED IT IN THE FIGHT AGAINST WIDESPREAD, DEBILITATING AND DEADLY “UNSEEN” MENTAL ILLNESSES – www.mind.org.uk/about-us
Mental health will affect ALL of us at some point. It will grip you, shake you and black out your life or the one of someone you love. It is vastly undervalued and I want to transform the face of mental health (as well as my own face) to raise awareness and money.
WHY? *1 in 4 people suffer from a mental health issue every year*Suicide kills more young men than ANYTHING ELSE*Unlike physical illness, there is no right to access or waiting time standards. *NINE OUT OF TEN people with mental health problems experience STIGMA and DISCRIMINATION for it. *There is no doubt that far more funding, awareness and respect is VITAL, for us ALL.
THIS IS FOR EVERYONE WHO HAS BEEN DEVASTATED IN THE WAKE OF ANY TYPE OF MENTAL ILLNESS.
OK, SO WHAT HEINOUSNESS WILL GRACE MY FACE NOW??*For the first two years, I shaved on the first day and did it the “old school” Movember way. For the last two years, I’ve “pregrown” for a month to have an even more outrageous ‘tash (or “pick up where I left off from” in terms of previous years’ growth) which has DEFINITELY fuelled the fundraising (over 75% of that £6k+ figure is from the last two years alone).*To mix it up again (and keep dat Mo #FRESH) this year I’ve gone SHORT – but not totally shaved and still keeping it visible. Why? TO FLY THE FACE-FLAG for as long as possible and because let’s face it, it’s harder to fundraise if for the first week I have a lil’ baby prepubescent Mo!
TARGET: £3161. The target has always been the previous year’s total. Last year’s total was an AMAZING £3160.78 – LET'S DO THIS!
As always, any amount is greatly appreciated.
Here’s to another year of doing something so small to make a massive, substantive difference!
DONATE: www.justgiving.com/movemberamir2016
ABOUT MIND:www.mind.org.uk/about-us
ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH:www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/statistics-and-facts-about-mental-health/key-facts-and-statistics/www.mentalhealth.org.uk/statisticswww.time-to-change.org.uk/mental-health-statistics-facts
PREVIOUS MOUSTACHE ESCAPADES:
2015 - £3160.78: https://www.facebook.com/idontlikeusernames/media_set?set=a.10156155364295078.1073741863.659470077&type=3
2014 - £1763.20: https://www.facebook.com/idontlikeusernames/media_set?set=a.10154707580210078.1073741854.659470077&type=3
2013 - £970.68: https://www.facebook.com/idontlikeusernames/media_set?set=a.10153455389565078.1073741843.659470077&type=3
2012 - £351: https://www.facebook.com/idontlikeusernames/media_set?set=a.10152291393885078.946379.659470077&type=3
REMEMBER, REMEMBER - THE FIFTH MOVEMBER
***PLEASE TAKE FIVE MINUTES TO READ THE FOLLOWING***
www.justgiving.com/movemberamir2016
£6,245.66. Can you BELIEVE it? That’s how much we’ve raised for causes such as mental health and cancer support and research (across Mind, Macmillan and the Movember charity itself) over the past four years. I have always been so grateful and to be honest, shocked at the support you've all provided to such worthy causes.
This year, MO MEANS MORE. I'm calling upon you to give whatever you can to help. Mental health issues - still underfunded, under-appreciated yet unrelenting in its power to ruin. WE (you, me and this beast growing on my face) are BACK to help fix that.
For a third year in a row, 100% of donations are going to the phenomenally deserving Mind - the UK's leading mental health charity.
MIND: PROVIDING SUPPORT, SERVICES, HELPLINES AND MORE FOR THOSE WHO NEED IT IN THE FIGHT AGAINST WIDESPREAD, DEBILITATING AND DEADLY “UNSEEN” MENTAL ILLNESSES – www.mind.org.uk/about-us
Mental health will affect ALL of us at some point. It will grip you, shake you and black out your life or the one of someone you love. It is vastly undervalued and I want to transform the face of mental health (as well as my own face) to raise awareness and money.
WHY?
*1 in 4 people suffer from a mental health issue every year
*Suicide kills more young men than ANYTHING ELSE
*Unlike physical illness, there is no right to access or waiting time standards.
*NINE OUT OF TEN people with mental health problems experience STIGMA and DISCRIMINATION for it. *There is no doubt that far more funding, awareness and respect is VITAL, for us ALL.
THIS IS FOR EVERYONE WHO HAS BEEN DEVASTATED IN THE WAKE OF ANY TYPE OF MENTAL ILLNESS.
OK, SO WHAT HEINOUSNESS WILL GRACE MY FACE NOW??
*For the first two years, I shaved on the first day and did it the “old school” Movember way. For the last two years, I’ve “pregrown” for a month to have an even more outrageous ‘tash (or “pick up where I left off from” in terms of previous years’ growth) which has DEFINITELY fuelled the fundraising (over 75% of that £6k+ figure is from the last two years alone).
*To mix it up again (and keep dat Mo #FRESH) this year I’ve gone SHORT – but not totally shaved and still keeping it visible. Why? TO FLY THE FACE-FLAG for as long as possible and because let’s face it, it’s harder to fundraise if for the first week I have a lil’ baby prepubescent Mo!
TARGET: £3161. The target has always been the previous year’s total. Last year’s total was an AMAZING £3160.78 – LET'S DO THIS!
As always, any amount is greatly appreciated.
Here’s to another year of doing something so small to make a massive, substantive difference!
DONATE: www.justgiving.com/movemberamir2016
ABOUT MIND:
www.mind.org.uk/about-us
ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH:
www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/statistics-and-facts-about-mental-health/key-facts-and-statistics/
www.mentalhealth.org.uk/statistics
www.time-to-change.org.uk/mental-health-statistics-facts
PREVIOUS MOUSTACHE ESCAPADES:
2015 - £3160.78: https://www.facebook.com/idontlikeusernames/media_set?set=a.10156155364295078.1073741863.659470077&type=3
2014 - £1763.20: https://www.facebook.com/idontlikeusernames/media_set?set=a.10154707580210078.1073741854.659470077&type=3
2013 - £970.68: https://www.facebook.com/idontlikeusernames/media_set?set=a.10153455389565078.1073741843.659470077&type=3
2012 - £351: https://www.facebook.com/idontlikeusernames/media_set?set=a.10152291393885078.946379.659470077&type=3