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GROW YOUR BEARD FOR THE GREATER GOOD
June 10, 2022
Winter has well and truly hit for the year! The wind is freezing cold and they’re talking the best start to the snow season in 20+ years. Sound like a good time to grow your beard? Well, on that note, we’d like to introduce Beard Season, an Australian non-profit charity run by Skin Check Champions.
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The Beard Season movement was started by a group of mates who lost a friend (Wes Bonny) to a suss looking spot on his neck (melanoma) in 2010. Tragically Wes was only 26 years old at the time and he didn’t know the spot was a problem until it was too late. Wes’s mates have honoured him by starting a movement that has gone global and is now saving a life on average every week.
Why Beards?
Over a couple of schooners at Wes’s wake, his mates came up with the idea to grow their beards each winter as an ‘in your face reminder’ for Aussies to get a skin check. They have been growing ever since and turned a simple act into something very powerful.
Why Winter?
The winter season is obviously the ideal time of the year to let a man’s facial follicles flourish, it is also the best time of year for a skin check. Less sun exposure means that moles are easier to spot, treatment is generally more successful and appointments are easier to make.
Why Fundraise?
Men are encouraged to sign up as an ambassador online, grow a beard and help raise much needed funds towards the establishment of the world’s first, targeted, national skin check program. This is connecting people via technology and free pop-up skin check clinics to highly trained specialists, especially in communities most at risk.
Can’t grow a beard, no sweat, you can make a donation online and all donations over $2 are tax deductible.
For those blokes who take up the challenge, be sure to get and see Ammar and his team of master barbers for the regular grooming of your growth, were open seven days a week here at Morisset Square.
Click here to sign up as an ambassador →
Click here to make a tax deductible donation →
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